Jennifer A. Tyson Ph.D.

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acfv84@r.postjobfree.com

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Education

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia/UPenn, Philadelphia PA, April 2014-Present

Post Doctoral Fellow

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, New York NY, 2008-2014

Ph.D. in Neuroscience 2014

MS in Neuroscience 2010

Smith College, Northampton MA, 2004-2008

B.A. in Neuroscience

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Scotland, 2007

Neuroscience Focus

Adjunct Instructor Course: Human Embryology and Teratology GC 507

Arcadia University, MS Program in Genetic Counseling, Philadelphia PA. Fall 2014

Research Mentor

UPenn, Department of Psychiatry, Philadelphia, PA 2012-present

Teaching Assistant Course: Grant Writing & Scientific Journalism

WCMC Department of Neuroscience, New York, NY. Spring 2011 & Spring 2012

Teaching Assistant Course: Brain and Mind

WCMC, Medical College New York, NY. Fall 2011

Research Mentor

WCMC, Department of Psychiatry, New York, NY. 2010 – 2012

Academic and Professional Honors

UPenn Institute for Regenerative Medicine Inaugural Stem Cell Conference; Invited Speaker, 2013

Hadley Society for Improving Natural Knowledge; Invited Speaker, 2012

Deans list 1st Group Scholar 2008

Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship; Awardee, Summer 2007 and Summer 2008

Memberships in professional societies

National Post Doctoral Association – Member 2014-Present

Penn Biotech Group (PBG) Healthcare Consulting -- Member 2014-Present

Wharton Graduate Association – Member 2014-Present

Smith College Club of Philadelphia – Member 2012-Present

International Society for Stem Cell Research -- Member 2013-Present

Elected Sigma Xi Chapter 066 -- The Scientific Research Society 2008

Publications

• Tyson JA, Maroof AM, Xu Q, Petros TJ, Anderson SA. Birthdate and Sonic Hedgehog signaling

differentially specify PV versus SST expressing cortical interneuron fates from embryonic stem cells. In

Revision

• Tyson JA and Anderson SA. GABAergic interneuron transplants to study development and treat

disease. (2014) Trends Neurosci. 37(3) 169-177. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2014.01.003. PMID: 24508416

• Tyson JA and Anderson SA. The Protracted Maturation of Human ESC-Derived Interneurons

(2013) Cell Cycle. 2013 Sep 6;12(19). PMID: 24013418

• Maroof AM, Keros S, Tyson JA, Ying SW, Ganat YM, Merkle FT, Liu B, Goulburn A, Stanley

EG, Elefanty AG, Widmer HR, Eggan K, Goldstein PA, Anderson SA, Studer L. Directed differentiation

and functional maturation of cortical interneurons from human embryonic stem cells (2013) Cell Stem

Cell. 559-72. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2013.04.008. PMID: 23642365

• Tyson JA. Considerations for importing live genetically modified mice from academic laboratories

(2012) Lab Anim (NY). doi: 10.1038/laban0612-167. PMID: 22614092

• Petros TJ, Tyson JA, Anderson SA. Pluripotent stem cells for the study of CNS development.

(2011) Front. Mol. Neurosci. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2011.00030. PMID: 22016722

• Campbell LL, Tyson JA, Stackpole EE, Hokenson KE, Sherrill H, Mckeon JE, Edmands SD, Suarez

C, Hall AC. Assessment of general anaesthetic cytotoxicity in murine cortical neurones in dissociated

culture. (2011) Toxicology. doi: 10.1016/j.tox.2011.01.014. PMID: 21277931

Grants

T32 Training Grant in Developmental Biology 1T32HD060600

October 2010-October 2012

Tri-Institutional community (The Rockefeller University, Gerstner Sloan Kettering Graduate Program and

Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences).

Professional Presentations

J.A. TYSON, L. CAMPBELL, E.E. STACKPOLE, K.E. HOKENSON, S.D. EDMANDS, A.C. HALL;

Assessment of neurotoxicity by anesthetic cocktails on primary cultures from dissociated neonatal murine

cortex. 2008, Society for Neuroscience. Washington D.C. MD

J.A. TYSON, D.R. CHINTA, A.M. MAROOF, S.A. ANDERSON; Lost in Translation: Revealing

Mechanisms Underlying Fate Determination in Cortical Interneurons. 2010, Sloan-Kettering

Institute Center for Stem Cell Biology Inaugural Symposium. New York City, NY

J.A. TYSON, A.M. MAROOF, S.A. ANDERSON; Revealing mechanisms underlying fate determination in

cortical interneurons. 2011, Society for Neuroscience. Washington D.C. MD

J.A. TYSON, A.M. MAROOF, S.A. ANDERSON; Revealing mechanisms underlying fate determination in

cortical interneurons. 2012, Vincent du Vigneaud Memorial Research Symposium. New York City, NYC

J.A. TYSON, A.M. MAROOF, S.A. ANDERSON; Generation of Cortical Interneuron Subgroups

From a Dual-Reporter Mouse Embryonic Stem Cell Line. 2012, Cortical interneurons in health and disease.

Costa d’en Blanes, Mallorca, Spain

J.A. TYSON, A.M. MAROOF, S.A. ANDERSON; Generation of Cortical Interneuron Subgroups From A

Dual-Reporter mESC Line 2012, Society for Neuroscience. New Orleans, LA

J.A. TYSON; Generation of Enriched Populations of Cortical Interneuron Subgroups From mESCs. 2013,

Invited Speaker, UPenn Institute for Regenerative Medicine Inaugural Stem Cell Conference.

J.A. TYSON, S.A. ANDERSON; Generation of Enriched PV versus SST Expressing Interneurons from a

Dual-Reporter mESC Line. 2013, Next Generation Stem Cell Conference. Saratoga, NY

J.A. TYSON, A.M. MAROOF, S.A. ANDERSON; Generation of Enriched PV versus SST Expressing

Interneurons from a Dual-Reporter mESC Line. 2013, ISSCR, International Society for Stem Cell

Research. Boston, MA

Other

Reviewer Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 2011-present

Creator, Author & Illustrator ScienceHaikuProject 2012-2013

Digital Artist Created Original Info-graphics for multiple publications

Housing Liaison for Graduate Students 2008-2010

Publicity & Design Committee Member Vincent Du Vigneaud Research Symposium 2010

Member Club Biomed (pharmaceutical investment club) 2009-2012

Member Graduate Student Executive Committee 2008-2012

Skills

Adobe Photoshop CS, MS Excel, Basic Statistics

Languages

Spanish (Basic)

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