MyriamMoreno Garcia

Myriam completed her undergraduate education in Biotechnology Engineering at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Monterrey, Mexico. As an undergrad she studied abroad at CU Boulder, enrolling in the Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Department. During her postbach time she worked as a research assistant in Dr. Brad Amend'ts lab at the Texas A&M Health Sciences Center and then at the University of Iowa, where his laboratory moved to, and researched the role of transcription factors in craniofacial anomalies in mice. She then transitioned to the neuroscience field by joining Dr. Paco Herson and Dr. Richard Traystman laboratory, also called the Neuronal Injury and Plasticity group, as a research assistant, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, where her research was focused on studying the mechanistic pathways involved with neuronal injury following different types of ischemia and TBI mouse models. She then started graduate school at the same institution in the Neuroscience program and joined Dr. Nidia Quillinan's laboratory. During her graduate work she developed and validated a mouse model of cerebellar stroke and studied possible disruptions to the cerebello-thalamo-cortical pathway by investigating possible changes to the intrinsic excitability of thalamo-cortical cells following this disease. She found distinct neuronal excitability (firing) differences within thalamo-cortical cells of the ventrolateral thalamus. She is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate in Alex Whiteley's lab where she will be investigating the role of PEG10 accumulation in in vivo and in vitro models, as a consequence of mutations in the UBQLN2 gene, and its association to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). When she is not working, she loves to spend time with her husband, kids, pets (furry kids), do art projects, and bake!