Distinguished Professor, Department of Neurobiology
Triton Endowed Professorship in Neurobiology
Director, NINDS Neuroscience Roadmap Scholars Program
Director, T32 Training Program in Cognition & Cognitive Disorders
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Dr. Lubin is a Distinguished and Triton Endowed Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She earned her BS, summa cum laude, in Biology/Chemistry from Alabama State University, and her PhD in Cell/Molecular Biology from SUNY Binghamton University in New York and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Lubin is focused on studying the epigenetic basis for transcription programs in the healthy and diseased brain. She and others have observed that neurons have “hijacked” epigenetic processes such as DNA methylation, posttranslational histone modifications, and non-coding RNAs to coordinate gene transcription changes in mature, non-dividing neurons during memory formation. Her work has provided insights into epigenetic mechanisms that participate in the regulation of gene expression during memory encoding, allocation, storage and recall in hopes of unraveling the causes of cognitive deficits and to develop treatment options. Her research gives insight not only into the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying long-term memory in the healthy brain, but also insights into the fundamental mechanisms that might be deranged in cognitive disorders.

Associate Director for Academic Development, Roadmap Scholars Program
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Associate Director, Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory/Research MRI Core
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Dr. Allendorfer received her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, where she also completed postdoctoral studies. As a faculty member of the Epilepsy Division and as a Co-Investigator on ongoing neuroimaging projects at University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), she is involved in clinical and basic science aspects of patient-oriented research. She collaborates with experts in neurology, psychology, immunology, physics, neuroscience, psychiatry, genetics, neurophysiology, public health, statistics, exercise medicine and neuroimaging at UAB.

Associate Director for Professional Development, Roadmap Scholars Program
Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Jarman F. Lowder Endowed Professorship in Neuroscience
Co-Director, Graduate Biomedical Sciences Neuroscience Theme
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Michelle Gray, Ph.D., received a B.S. in biology from Alabama State University in Montgomery. She then earned a Ph.D. from Ohio State University in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. At Ohio State University, she studied neurogenic defects that resulted in abnormal axon pathfinding abnormalities caused by genetic mutations in the zebrafish model system using cellular and molecular biology techniques in the laboratory of Dr. Christine Beattie. Dr. Gray performed post-doctoral studies in the laboratory of Dr. X. William Yang in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Human Behavior at the University of California, Los Angeles. She developed a conditional human Bacterial Artificial Chromosome transgenic mouse model containing the entire human huntingtin locus to model Huntington’s disease (BACHD) that is widely used by many laboratories throughout the world. She continues to use mouse genetic approaches to model neurodegenerative diseases.

Consultant, NEURAL Conference
Professor, Department of Pediatrics
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Program Manager I, Roadmap Scholars Program