Email

melanie.samuel@bcm.edu

Positions

Assistant Professor

Department of Neuroscience, Huffington Center on Aging
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX US

CPRIT Scholar

Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas

Member

Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas United States

Education

PhD from Washington University School of Medicine

St. Louis, Missouri United States

Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard

Cambridge, Massachusetts United States

BS from the University of Idaho

Moscow, Idaho United States

Summa Cum Laude, Biochemistry and Microbiology

BA from the University of Idaho

Moscow, United States

Summa Cum Laude, English

Professional Interests

• Discovery of new neural development molecules and pathways.
• Development of nanoscopic imaging tools and techniques for circuit analysis.
• Novel genetic models of human neural diseases
• Computational approaches to circuit mapping.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Samuel MA, Voinescu PE, Lilley BN, de Cabo R, Foretz M, Viollet B, Pawlyk B, Sandberg MA, Vavvas DG, Sanes JR. "LKB1 and AMPK regulate synaptic remodeling in old age.." Nat Neurosci. September 17; : 1190-7. Pubmed PMID: 25086610
• Samuel MA, Valdez G, Tapia JC, Lichtman JW, Sanes JR. "Agrin and synaptic laminin are required to maintain adult neuromuscular junctions.." : Pubmed PMID: 23056392
• Samuel MA, Zhang Y, Meister M, Sanes JR. "Age-related alterations in neurons of the mouse retina.." J Neurosci.. : Pubmed PMID: 22049445