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Dolores Irala, PhD
Assistant Member, St. Jude Faculty
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Contact Information
Dolores Irala, PhD
Department of Cell & Molecular Biology
MS 326
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Education
BS (Cell and Molecular Biology) – University of Lujan, Argentina
PhD Philosophy (Neuroscience) – University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Postdoctoral Fellow – Duke University, Durham, NC
Honors & Awards
- Pew Latin American Fellows Program in the Biomedical Sciences
- Foerster-Bernstein fellowship for Women in STEM
- Argentinian National Scientific and Technical Research Council fellowship
Research Interests
- Excitatory and inhibitory synaptogenesis
- Astrocyte-neuron communication
- Astrocyte-secreted molecules during synapse formation
- Role of astrocyte dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders