Dr. Yasemin Önder Joined Molecular Biology and Genetics Department
9 December 2021
Dr. Yasemin Önder received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, in 2006. She then moved to the US and obtained her MSc degree in Applied Cognition and Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2010. She earned her PhD degree in Neuroscience at the UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX, in 2018.
During her PhD work, she studied the role of a circadian protein in mitochondrial function and metabolic adaptation. She then pursued her postdoctoral studies in Dr. Maribel Rios’ laboratory at Tufts University in Boston, where she worked on the molecular and physiological mechanisms underlying feeding behavior and metabolic regulation in the brain.
Dr. Önder’s overarching research interest is to understand how the synaptic circuitry is rewired in response to environmental and metabolic demands and the context of neurological disorders. She plans to achieve this by studying both at the cellular and circuit level using molecular biology and electrophysiology and using unbiased top-down genomic approaches such as single-cell sequencing.