I graduated from the University of Colorado, Boulder 2008, and am currently a student in the UVA MSTP and Neuroscience Graduate Program. Using mouse models of Rett syndrome and MeCP2 duplication syndrome, both disorders of the methyl-CpG binding protein MeCP2, I am studying the role of glial and immune cells in nervous and immune system development and homeostasis. I am trying to understand how microglia and peripheral immune cells ameliorate progression of Rett syndrome, and identify the downstream molecular events and cellular targets that underlie the beneficial effect of immunity and glia in Rett.

Email:  jcc2cm@virginia.edu