Elizabeth Glater

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience; On leave for the 2017-2018 academic year

elizabeth.glater@pomona.edu

Office:

Seaver South

217

(909) 607-0880

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With Pomona since:

2014

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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.

Areas of Expertise

NEUROSCIENCE

Genetics
Genetics and behavior

Research Interests

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

Work

Worthy, S., Rojas, G., Taylor, C., and Glater, E.E. (2018). Identification of odor blend used by Caenorhabditis elegans for pathogen recognition. Chemical Senses. 43(3): 169-180.

Glater, E.E., Rockman, M.V., and Bargmann, C.I. (2014). Multigenic natural variation underlies Caenorhabditis elegans olfactory preference for the bacterial pathogen Serratia marcescens. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics 4, 265–276.

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

Glater EE, Megeath LJ, Stowers RS, Schwarz TL (2006). Axonal transport of mitochondria requires milton to recruit kinesin heavy chain and is light chain independent. J Cell Biol 173:545–557.

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

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