Pre-Doctoral Candidate Researcher, Helen Wills Neuroscience
I received my Bachelor's degree in neuroscience from Vassar College, where I studied how chronic alcohol exposure alters PTSD circuitry in Dr. Hadley Bergstrom's lab. After graduating, I worked with Dr. Eric Huang at UCSF to characterize how chromatin remodeling complexes regulate neurodevelopment. In the Dillin lab, I am working with Cory Pender to understand how the central nervous system conveys chemosensory cues to peripheral tissues.
Publications
Dishart, J. G., Pender, C., Shen, K., Zhang, H., Ly, M., Webb, M., & Dillin, A. G. (2024). Olfaction regulates peripheral mitophagy and mitochondrial function. Science Advances, in press.
Bar-Ziv, R., Dutta, N., Hruby, A., Sukarto, E., Averbukh, M., Alcala, A., ... & Dillin, A. (2023). Glial-derived mitochondrial signals affect neuronal proteostasis and aging. Science Advances, 9(41), eadi1411.
Gildea, H. K., Frankino, P. A., Tronnes, S. U., Pender, C. L., Durieux, J., Dishart, J. G., ... & Dillin, A. (2022). Glia of C. elegans coordinate a protective organismal heat shock response independent of the neuronal thermosensory circuit. Science Advances, 8(49), eabq3970.
Tsui, C. K., Dishart, J. G., & Dillin, A. (2021). Brains and brawn: Stress-induced myokine abates nervous system aging. Cell Metabolism, 33(6), 1067-1069.
Zhang, J., Velmeshev, D., Hashimoto, K., Huang, Y. H., Hofmann, J. W., Shi, X., ... & Huang, E. J. (2020). Neurotoxic microglia promote TDP-43 proteinopathy in progranulin deficiency. Nature, 588(7838), 459-465.
Scarlata, M. J., Lee, S. H., Lee, D., Kandigian, S. E., Hiller, A. J., Dishart, J. G., ... & Bergstrom, H. C. (2019). Chemogenetic stimulation of the infralimbic cortex reverses alcohol-induced fear memory overgeneralization. Scientific reports, 9(1), 6730.