Katie Bonefas
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