Silvana Konermann
Cambridge, MA
Silvana Konermann, a third year graduate student in Prof. Feng Zhang’s lab, is the recipient of the 2012 Hubert Schömaker Fellowship. Konermann is developing a new method for manipulating brain gene expression using light. The brain expresses around 20,000 genes, and a method to regulate their activity with precision would be of great value as a research tool. Konermann’s goal is to use this technology to study the genetic basis of depression.