Elizabeth Glater

Associate Professor of Neuroscience
With 6VµçÓ°Íø Since: 2014
  • Expertise

    Expertise

    Elizabeth Glater’s research examines the ways the nervous system allows animals to generate behavioral responses to their environment.  Her laboratory uses the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to investigate the genetic and neuronal basis of food choice behavior.  Working with C. elegans, which has many genes that are similar to humans and a simple, well-characterized nervous system of only 302 neurons, she and a team of undergraduate researchers are seeking to understand how genes and environment modify the nervous system to produce different food preferences.

     

    Research Interests

    • How genes affect cell function and modify neural circuits to produce different behaviors

    Areas of Expertise

    NEUROSCIENCE

    • Genetics
    • Genetics and behavior
  • Work

    Work

    *Chai VZ, *Farajzadeh T, *Meng Y, *LoSB, *Asaed TA, Taylor CJ, and Glater EE. 2024. . 2024. Scientific Reports. doi:10.1038/s41598-024-51533-6

    Katzen A, Chung HK, Harbaugh WT, Della Iacono C, Jackson N, Glater EE, Taylor CJ, Yu SK, Flavell SW, Glimcher P, Andreoni J, and Lockery SR. 2023. Elife. 2023 Apr 25;12:e69779. doi: 10.7554/eLife.69779. PMID: 37096663

    Glater, EE. 2022. . In C. elegans Methods and Applications. 3rd edition; Eds: Haspel G, Hart AC; Pub. Springer/Nature; New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2180-6_2.

    Gourgou E, Willis AR, Giunti S, Rosa MJD, Charlesworth AG, Lima MH, Glater E, Soo S, Pereira B, AkbaÅŸ K, Deb A, Kamak M, Moyle MW, Traa A, Singhvi A, Sural S, Ji EJ.  . Journal of Neurogenetics, 1–12 (2020).

    Worthy S.E., Haynes L., Chambers M., Bethune D., Kan E., Chung K., Ota R., Taylor C.J. and Glater E.E.  . PLoS ONE. 13:e0201158 (2018).

    Pokala N and Glater EE. . Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education. 162(2): A152-A158 (2018).

    Worthy, S., Rojas, G., Taylor, C., and Glater, E.E. . Chemical Senses. 43(3): 169-180 (2018).

    Glater, E.E., Rockman, M.V., and Bargmann, C.I. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics 4, 265–276 (2014).

    Glater EE and Schwarz TL. Organization and transport of mitochondria in neurons in Encyclopedia of Neuroscience (Editor-in-chief, Larry Squire, Academic Press, Oxford) (2009).

    Glater EE, Megeath LJ, Stowers RS, Schwarz TL. . J Cell Biol 173:545–557 (2006).

  • Education

    Education

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    The Rockefeller University

    Ph.D.
    Harvard University

    Master of Arts
    Brown University

    Bachelor of Arts with High Honors
    Swarthmore College

    Recent Courses Taught

    • Genes and Behavior with Laboratory
    • Introduction to Neuroscience with Laboratory
    • Senior Experimental Thesis
  • Awards & Honors

    Awards & Honors

    National Science Foundation, Research Starter Grant, $50,000, "Genetic and neuronal mechanisms of food preference in C. elegans, 2012-13