PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
PhD Student, KMZ Lab, Department of Neuroscience
Research Interests: Neurodegeneration, Glial Inflammation, Translational Neuroscience
Advisor: Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, PhD, Professor & Chair, Department of Neuroscience, Director of Neuroscience Graduate Studies (IPN/INNS)
Rotations: Bill Rebeck, PhD; Katherine Conant, MD; Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss, PhD
Prior Education: University of Chicago B.A.; Georgetown University M.S. Neuroscience
Matthew Nelson (he/him) is a PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience (IPN). He graduated from the University of Chicago in 2017 with a focus on psychology and received a Metcalf Scholarship. He then received his master’s degree in Neuroscience from Georgetown University in 2019.
Matthew’s thesis research focuses on Parkinson’s disease inflammation and cross glia communication. Currently, he studies how extracellular vesicles derived from microglia cells influence astrocyte activity in Parkinson’s models primarily using quantitative reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry, RNA-sequencing, and mass spectrometry.