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Sara Roberson, Ph.D.

Department of Psychiatry,
University of Pennsylvania


Education:

2010 B.S. Biology, Spanish – Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, TN

2017 PhD. Biology – Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

2017-Present PennPORT fellow, Cell & Developmental Biology — University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Research Mentor: Stephen DiNardo, Ph.D. 
 
Research Topic: The mechanisms that underlie aging of a stem cell niche of the Drosophila testis.
 
Teaching Interests
: Developmental biology, Cell biology
 
Publications:
 
Roberson, S., Halpern, M.E. Invited review.    Development and connectivity  of the habenular nuclei. Under review, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 
 
Roberson, S., Halpern, M.E. (2017). Convergence of signaling pathways underlying habenular formation and axonal outgrowth. Development, 144(14), 2652-2662.
 
Rochard, L., Monica, S.D., Ling, I.T.C., Kong, Y., Roberson, S., Harland, R., Halpern, M.E., and Liao, E.C. (2016).
 
Roles of Wnt pathway genes wls, wnt9a, wnt5b, frzb and gpc4 in regulating convergent-extension during palate morphogenesis. Development, 143(14), 2541-2547.    Kuan, Y. S.*, Roberson, S*., Akitake, C. M., Fortuno, L., Gamse, J., Moens, C., & Halpern, M. E. (2015).
 
Distinct requirements for Wntless in habenular development. Developmental Biology, 406(2), 117-128. *Co-first authors.
 
E-mail: sarob@mail.med.upenn.edu  

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