Michelle Harran Chan-Cortés, BS
Graduate Student, Neuroscience
Education and Training:
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Undergraduate
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BS, Johns Hopkins University
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Biomedical Engineering
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Premedical Post-Baccalaureate
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Columbia University
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Previous Positions:
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Research Assistant: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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David Linden, PhD
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Research Assistant: Motor Performance Lab, Columbia University
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John Krakauer, MD
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Senior Research Program Coordinator: BLAM Lab, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
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John Krakauer, MD
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Research Assistant: Laboratory for Computational Motor Control, Johns Hopkins University
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Reza Shadmehr, PhD
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Research Interests:
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Neurodevelopment, neurodegeneration and regeneration.
Current Projects:
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Characterizing the temporal and topographical patterns of motor axon development and degeneration in SMA mice using iDISCO
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Defining the transcriptomes of spatially distinct motor neuron pools in SMA via single-nuc sequencing
Selected Publications:
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Full list of publications: ORCID iD
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Ravi B, Chan-Cortés MH, Sumner CJ. Gene-Targeting Therapeutics for Neurological Disease: Lessons Learned from Spinal Muscular Atrophy. Annual Review of Medicine 2021; 72:1-14.
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Dougherty SE, Kajstura TJ, Jin Y, Chan-Cortés M, Kota AK, Linden DJ. Catecholaminergic axons in the neo cortex of adult mice regrow following brain injury (2019). Experimental Neurology, Nov 4;323:113089.
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Cortés JC, Goldsmith J, Harran MD, Xu J, Kim N, Schambra H, Luft A, Celnik P, Krakauer JW, Kitago T. A Short and Distinct Time Window for Recovery of Arm Motor Control Early After Stroke Revealed With a Global Measure of Trajectory Kinematics (2017). Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, Jun;31(6):552-560.
Hobbies and Interests:
I really like eating- I keep a running list of every restaurant I've been to in Baltimore (it's over 200).
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