Katie Bonefas

Person Type: 
Student
Admission Year:
2017
Biography/Resume: 

Bachelor of Neuroscience - Concentration in Biology, University of Texas at Austin, 2017

Admission year: 2017

Advisor: Shigeki Iwase

Research Interest:  Chromatin regulation of learning and memory, dynamic relationship between the synapse and the nucleus, chromatin-linked neurodevelopmental disorders

Honors, grants, and awards:

  • University of Michigan Neuroscience Conference, Best Poster – 2nd place 2022
  • Career Training in Reproductive Biology – Training Grant (NIH T32) 2019, 2020
  • Rackham Graduate Student Predoctoral Research Grant 2019
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship – Honorable Mention 2018
  • Early Stage Training in Neuroscience – Training Grant (NIH T32)

Service and Leadership: 

  • Lead Illustrator for MiSciWriters, a UMich SciCom magazine - 2020-present
  • BrainsRule! Executive Committee - Marketing Chair and Schools Coordinator - 2017-2022
  • Michigan DNA day - Education developer and instructor - 2017-2019

Teaching Experience:

  • Neurobiology Laboratory - UMich - GSI - 2018
  • Making Discoveries Colloquium - Oakland University - Invited Lecturer - 2018
  • Vertebrate Interactome Mapping - UT Austin - Undergraduate TA - 2015-2017
  • Neural Systems II - UT Austin - Undergraduate TA - 2016

Career goals:To eventually run my own research group and explore the weird unknowns of molecular neuroscience

Hobbies: Painting, knitting, and staring into the void with my cat

Preferred Pronouns:  she/her/hers

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