Dr Jennifer Garrison — Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality – Buck Institute
Dr. Jennifer Garrison, PhD (http://garrisonlab.com/) is Assistant Professor, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Founder & Faculty Director, Global Consortium for Reproductive Longevity & Equality (https://www.buckinstitute.org/gcrle/), Assistant Professor in Residence, Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Gerontology, USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
Dr. Garrison’s lab is interested to understand how neuropeptides, a class of signaling molecules secreted by neurons that transmit messages in the brain and throughout the nervous system, regulates changes in normal animals and in aging animals. They also want to know how they control the behavior on both cellular and neural circuit levels.
Dr. Garrison earned her PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at the University of California San Francisco, in the lab of Dr. Jack Taunton. She discovered the molecular targets of a natural substance and elucidated a new mechanism by which small molecule can regulate protein biogenesis. She was a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Cori Borgmann’s laboratory at Rockefeller University. She showed that C. elegans produced a neuropeptide which is an evolutionary precursor to the mammalian molecules vasopressin & oxytocin.
Dr. Garrison has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, and in 2014 she received a Glenn Foundation Award for Research in Biological Mechanisms of Aging. In 2015, she was also named a Next-Generation Leader at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Her research is supported by the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences as well as the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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