Advisor: Mario Romero-Ortega
PhD Student
Kristen Jackson is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student in the RNN Lab at the University of Arizona. She graduated from the University of Colorado Denver in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Integrative Biology and a minor in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. While completing her undergraduate degree she did research at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the Immunology and Microbiology department where her work focused on how Group B Streptococcus ascends through the female vaginal tract resulting in fetal meningitis. After graduating she worked at Children’s Hospital Colorado as a clinical research coordinator in the Asthma and Allergy department. She then decided to pursue further education and joined the Regenerative Neurobiology and Neuroelectronics Laboratory in 2022. Her current research focuses on developing an in-vitro peripheral nerve injury model and finding ways to prevent neurogenic muscle atrophy following peripheral nerve injury.
Research Interests
Peripheral Nerve Injury, Neurogenic Muscle Atrophy, Nerve Regeneration
Contact
kristenjackson@arizona.edu