Tanya Jain, BA

Tanya grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She studied Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis on Neurobiology and Computer Science at UC Berkeley. As an undergraduate, she joined the Dipoppa Lab where she created computational simulations of the desynchronization of excitatory neuron firing, a phenomenon observed during development. Her research also focused on the absence of this synchronization, which has implications in Fragile X. She also worked in the Harland Lab, where she modeled the decentralized nervous system of the jellyfish Cassiopea. Tanya came to the Clelland Lab at the Memory and Aging Center eager to work on therapies that could directly impact patient lives and appreciates the supportive camaraderie in the lab. She hopes to continue to research neurodegenerative diseases in the future, in graduate school.