Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

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Sarah Bergen

Graduate Student
Department of Human Genetics

Tel: 804 828 8157 Fax: 804 828 8801

Email: sbergen@gmail.com

P.O. Box: 980126

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Education

• 2000: BA Neuroscience, Psychology minor: Biology, Macalester College
• 2004: MS Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
• Present: Ph.D Candidate, Department of Human Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University

Professional Experience

• 09/1997 - 05/1998: Animal Care Worker, Macalester College
• 01/1997 - 05/1997, January 1998 – December 1998: Laboratory Preparation, Macalester College
• 06/1999 - 08/1999: Internship, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston
• 09/1999 - 12/1999: Behavioral Neuroscience Teaching Assistant, Macalester College
• 01/2000 - 05/2000: Genetics Lab Teaching Assistant, Macalester College
• 12/2000 - 07/2001: Staff Research Associate I, University of California San Francisco, Department of Neurosurgery
• 07/2001 - 08/2004: Graduate Student Researcher, University of Pittsburgh, Neuroscience Department
• 09/2004 - 05/2005: Research Technician II, University of Southern California, Department of Preventive Medicine

Honors and Memberships

• 1996: National Merit Finalist
• 1996-2000: DeWitt Wallace Distinguished Scholarship, Macalester College
• 2001-2002: NIH Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh
• 2002, 2003: Society for Neuroscience member and poster presenter at national conference
• 2005: Human Genetics Departmental Excellence Award, Virginia Commonwealth University

Research Interests

Selected Publications

• Sweet RA, Bergen SE, Sun Z, Sampson AR, Pierri JN, Lewis DA. (2004) Pyramidal cell size reduction in schizophrenia: evidence for involvement of auditory feedforward circuits. Biol Psychiatry. 55(12): 1128-37.
• Hashimoto T, Bergen SE, Nguyen OL, Xu B, Monteggia LM, Pierri JN, Sun Z, Sampson AR, Lewis DA. (2005) Relationship of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor TrkB to altered inhibitory prefrontal circuitry in schizophrenia. J Neurosci 25(2): 372-83.
• Sweet RA, Bergen SE, Sun Z, Marcsisin MJ, Sampson AR, Lewis DA. (2006) Anatomical evidence of impaired feedforward auditory processing in schizophrenia. Biol Psychiatry. (accepted)
  
  
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