Caitlin Aamodt

Entering Year:

2013

Graduating Year:

2021

Thesis Lab:

White

Publication:

FoxP2 isoforms delineate spatiotemporal transcriptional networks for vocal learning in the zebra finch. Burkett ZD, Day NF, Kimball TH, Aamodt CM, Heston JB, Hilliard AT, Xiao X, White SA. Elife. 2018 Jan 23;7. pii: e30649. doi: 10.7554/eLife.30649. PMID: 29360038

Aamodt, Caitlin & Farias-Virgens, Madza & White, Stephanie. (2020). Birdsong as a window into language origins and evolutionary neuroscience. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 375. 20190060. 10.1098/rstb.2019.0060.

Award:

UCLA Graduate Dean's Scholar Award
T32 Neurobehavioral Genetics Training
NIH NRSA (F31) Fellowship
Neuroscience Scholar's Program, Society for Neuroscience

Faculty Mentor:

White

Thesis:

Characterizing microRNA-128 as a Therapeutic Target for Vocal Communication Deficits