Contact

• Email: sarah_bliss @ urmc.rochester.edu
• Advisors: M. Kerry O'Banion MD/PhD and John Olschowka PhD.
• Department: Neurobiology & Anatomy
• Phone: (585) 273-2149
• Address:

  University of Rochester Medical Center
  Box 603
  601 Elmwood Ave.
  Rochester, NY 14642

Area of Interest / Current Research

I am interested in neuroinflammation and the role it plays in the central nervous system. Specifically, I am looking at the prostaglandin pathway and how prostaglandin E2 acts on its receptors. I would like to eventually apply this study to dissecting out the neuroinflammatory role in Alzheimer's Disease.

Education

• 2004-current : Ph.D. student, Neuroscience, University of Rochester
• 2001-2004: B.S. in Biology, Houghton College. Chemistry minor.

Rotations

These are the labs I rotated through during my first year

Krystel Huxlin PhD. Summer 2004

Looking at the molecular effects of a lesion in visual cortex in the cat brain

Mark Noble PhD. Fall 2004

Glial stem cell research

M. Kerry O'Banion Spring 2005

siRNA technique to dissect out relative contributions to the formation of PGE2

Other Interests

• I travel fairly regularly to Haiti and the Dominican Republic to work medically with refugees. I hope to eventually serve the poor in the Third World for a few months every year.
• I lead the Med Center Christian Fellowship bible study once a week along with two second year medical students
• Skiing
• Running