Kawther Abu-Elneel


Education:
1993 B.Sc. in Biology. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
1996 M.Sc. in Biochemistry. Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
2002 Ph.D in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Hadassah Medical School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Postdoctoral training:
2002-2003: Research Fellow in Pathology. Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston.
2004-2005: Research Fellow in Neurobiology. Center of Neurological Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
2005-present: Research Fellow in Neurobiology. Neuroscience Institute, UCSB, Santa Barbara.

Research Interest: Delta-Catenin and Synaptic Plasticity

E-mail: abuelneel at lifesci.ucsb.edu

Publications:

Abu-Elneel K, Ochiishi T, Medina M, Remedi M, Gastaldi L, Caceres A, Kosik KS.A delta-catenin signaling pathway leading to dendritic protrusions.J Biol Chem. 2008 Nov 21;283(47):32781-91


Abu-Elneel K, Liu T, Gazzaniga FS, Nishimura Y, Wall DP, Geschwind DH, Lao K, Kosik KS. Heterogeneous dysregulation of microRNAs across the autism spectrum. Neurogenetics. 2008 Jul;9(3):153-61