Fillan Grady, M6G
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MSTP Learning Community: Boulware MSTP Entry Date: July 23, 2016 |
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PhD Program: Neuroscience |
Mentors: Gordon Buchanan, MD, PhDJoel Geerling, MD, PhD |
Identifying the neuro-anatomical basis of arousal
Thesis Defense: October 28, 2022
Committees:
2016-2017 - MSTP Recruitment Committee
2016-2017 - MSTP Applicant Task Force
2020-2021 - Retreat & I 'Heart' Science (Chair)
Awards:
2017 - The Lauretta Bender Research Award in Psychiatry, Medical Student Research Day, Sept 15
2020 - Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship
2021 - Pappajohn Biomedical Institute Best Paper by a Graduate Student
Teaching:
2018 Spring - MOHD III tutor
2018 Fall - M1 Foundations Tutor
2019 Spring - MOHD III tutor
2019 Spring - ACB:6252 Functional Neuroanatomy Teaching Assistant
Education:
2015 - BA, Physics, Mathematics, Biology, Integrated Science - Northwestern University
Publications:
Cox AJ, Grady F, Velez G, Mahajan VB, Ferguson PJ, Kitchen A, Darbro BW, Bassuk AG. In trans variant calling reveals enrichment for compound heterozygous variants in genes involved in neuronal development and growth. Genet Res (Camb). 2019 Jun 13;101:e8. doi: 10.1017/S0016672319000065. PubMed PMID: 31190668; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7045018.
Grady F, Peltekian L, Iverson G, Geerling JC. Direct Parabrachial-Cortical Connectivity. Cereb Cortex. 2020 Jul 30;30(9):4811-4833. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhaa072. PubMed PMID: 32383444; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7391272.
Huang D, Grady FS, Peltekian L, Laing JJ, Geerling JC. Efferent projections of CGRP/Calca-expressing parabrachial neurons in mice. J Comp Neurol. 2021 Aug 1;529(11):2911-2957. doi: 10.1002/cne.25136. Epub 2021 Mar 25. PubMed PMID: 33715169; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8165036.
Huang D, Grady FS, Peltekian L, Geerling JC. Efferent projections of Vglut2, Foxp2, and Pdyn parabrachial neurons in mice. J Comp Neurol. 2021 Mar;529(4):657-693. doi: 10.1002/cne.24975. Epub 2020 Sep 21. PubMed PMID: 32621762; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7775907.
Karthik S, Huang D, Delgado Y, Laing JJ, Peltekian L, Iverson GN, Grady F, Miller RL, McCann CM, Fritzsch B, Iskusnykh IY, Chizhikov VV, Geerling JC. Molecular ontology of the parabrachial nucleus. J Comp Neurol. 2022 Feb 8. doi: 10.1002/cne.25307. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35134251.
Grady FS, Graff SA, Aldridge GM, Geerling JC. BoutonNet: an automatic method to detect anterogradely labeled presynaptic boutons in brain tissue sections. Brain Struct Funct. 2022 Jun 1;. doi: 10.1007/s00429-022-02504-y. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35648216.
Grady FS, Boes AD, Geerling JC. A Century Searching for the Neurons Necessary for Wakefulness. Front Neurosci. 2022;16:930514. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.930514. eCollection 2022. Review. PubMed PMID: 35928009; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC9344068.