Mimi is a graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Group. She is a graduate of Davidson College, where she majored in Biology with a concentration in Neuroscience. In 2010, Mimi was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS).

Publications

DeSantis, M.E., E.H. Leung, E.A. Sweeny, M.E. Jackrel, M. Cushman-Nick, A. Neuhaus-Follini, S. Vashist, M.A. Sochor, M.N. Knight, and J. Shorter. (2012). Operational Plasticity Enables Hsp104 to Disaggregate Diverse Amyloid and Non-Amyloid Clients. Cell. 151:778-793. pdf file link

Cushman, M.*, B.S. Johnson*, O.D. King, A.D. Gitler and J. Shorter. (2010). Prion-like disorders: blurring the divide between transmissibility and infectivity. J. Cell Sci.123:1191-1201. pdf file link (*These authors contributed equally to this work)

Tsika, E., M. Moysidou, J. Guo, M. Cushman, P. Gannon, R. Sandaltzopoulos, B.I. Giasson, D. Krainc, H. Ischiropoulos and J.R. Mazzulli. (2010). Distinct region-specific alpha-synuclein oligomers in A53T transgenic mice: implications for neurodegeneration. J. Neurosci. 30:3409 –3418. pdf file link

Vashist, S., M. Cushman and J. Shorter. (2010). Applying Hsp104 to protein-misfolding disorders. Biochem. Cell Biol. 88:1-13. pdf file link