PhD Student, The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience


Research Interests

Norepinephrine-mediated intracellular signaling in astrocytes and its role in transcriptional regulation and astrocyte physiology, interaction between astrocytes and other cell types in the CNS

Education

B.A.  Washington University in St. Louis

Selected Publications

Parhizkar, S., Chen, W., Bao, X., Gent, G., Rensing, N., Tycksen, E., Franke, E., Manis, M., Bosch, M. E., Lee, C., Serrano, J. R., Landsness, E., Wong, M., & Holtzman, D. M. (2024). Lemborexant, a Dual Orexin Receptor Antagonist, ameliorates Tau‐mediated Sleep Loss and Neurodegeneration. Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 20(S1), e089253. https://doi.org/10.1002/alz.089253

Zhang, X., Landsness, E. C., Miao, H., Chen, W., Tang, M. J., Brier, L. M., Culver, J. P., Lee, J.-M., & Anastasio, M. A. (2024). Attention-based CNN-BiLSTM for sleep state classification of spatiotemporal wide-field calcium imaging data. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 411, 110250. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2024.110250

Parhizkar, S., Gent, G., Chen, Y., Rensing, N., Gratuze, M., Strout, G., Sviben, S., Tycksen, E., Zhang, Q., Gilmore, P. E., Sprung, R., Malone, J., Chen, W., Remolina Serrano, J., Bao, X., Lee, C., Wang, C., Landsness, E., Fitzpatrick, J., … Holtzman, D. M. (2023). Sleep deprivation exacerbates microglial reactivity and Aβ deposition in a TREM2 -dependent manner in mice. Science Translational Medicine, 15(693), eade6285. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.ade6285

Zhang, X., Landsness, E. C., Chen, W., Miao, H., Tang, M., Brier, L. M., Culver, J. P., Lee, J.-M., & Anastasio, M. A. (2022). Automated sleep state classification of wide-field calcium imaging data via multiplex visibility graphs and deep learning. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 366, 109421. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jneumeth.2021.109421

Contact information

Department of Neuroscience

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

725 N. Wolfe St., WBSB 1001

Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone: (410) 955-6949

Fax: (410) 955-6942