ASSISTANT PROFESSOR

Debo is a chemist turned neuroscientist. After a PhD in chemistry at the University of Utah, her fascination with the brain led her to the neurosciences for her postdoctoral studies at Baylor College of Medicine. Here she learnt about non-neuronal glial cells in the brain and discovered posttranslational chemistry of epigenetic modifications in glial cells. Debo is interested in the big broad question of how we perceive and respond to the world around us. Towards this, her research will focus on the sensory experience and use the mouse olfactory system as a model to understand how glial epigenetic mechanisms shape sense of smell. Outside of research, when Debo is not thinking about glial epigenetics, she tries to amuse her chemist soul by experimenting with cooking!

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