Kira Irving

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Lab News

06-10-13 Jinte wins award!

Congratulations to Jinte for winning a (well-paid) Alzheimer's Association Award for Young Scientists. There was a strong competition this year so this is really awesome.

06-05-13 Kira's thesis defense!

Congratulations to Dr. Kira Mosher for reaching this milestone in her bright career!

05-22-13 Trish receives fellowship!

Congratulations Trisha for receiving a prestigious and highly selective DARE Doctoral Fellowship from Stanford. Well-deserved!

05-08-13 Liz publishes on eLife!

Congratulations to Liz for publishing a beautiful article in eLife!

04-18-13 Joe wins fellowship!

Congratulations to Joe for winning a prestigious 3-year Jane Coffin Childs fellowship! (www.jccfund.org)

Kira Irving

Graduate Student

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I became drawn to neuroscience during my undergraduate education at Vassar College, which emphasized perspectives in both biology and psychology to the study of the brain and behavior. At Vassar I worked with Dr. John Long studying interactions of the brain, environment, and behavior in the context of evolution. My interest in neurodegenerative diseases grew during an internship in lab of Dr. Nikolaos Robakis at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. I am now pursuing these interests as a graduate student in the Stanford Neuroscience Program. I joined the Wyss-Coray lab in July of 2008, and I am currently investigating how the immune system, particularly the complement components, may be involved in mechanisms of neurogenesis. In general, I would like to understand how such mechanisms could be disrupted in disease states and the related brain immune responses.