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Hire Dr. Hannah M. C.

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Neuroscience Ph.D. | Freelance Bioinformatician and Academic Writer/Editor | 10+ years of experience

Profile Summary

Ph.D. in Neuroscience | I have over a decade of experience performing molecular and behavioral neuroscience research and writing. I am experienced in performing bioinformatic analysis of sequencing datasets, and I have an intimate of knowledge of the biology underlying the results. I have written and edited over 20 papers, and I have written multiple NIH grants.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Molecular Biology
• ☆ Omics
• ☆ Transcriptomics
• ☆ Chromatin
• ☆ Epigenetics
• ☆ RNA Sequencing
• ☆ Neuroscience
• ☆ Behavioral Neuroscience
• ☆ Molecular Neuroscience
• ☆ Bioinformatics
• ☆ R
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing
• ☆ White Papers
• ☆ Science Communication

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing, General Proofreading & Editing

Research Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data Processing

Work Experience

Assistant Professor of Biology

Adelphi University

September 2019 - Present

Postdoctoral Fellow

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

November 2017 - September 2019

Postdoctoral Associate

Weill Cornell Medical College

September 2016 - November 2017

Education

PhD (Neuroscience)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

August 2011 - August 2016

Bachelor of Arts (Biology and Spanish)

Austin College

September 2007 - May 2011

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Hannah M. Cates, Yentl Y. van der Zee, Lars M. T. Eijssen, Philipp Mews, Aarthi Ramakrishnan, Kelvin Alvarez, Casey K. Lardner, Deena M. Walker, Angélica Torres-Berrío, Caleb J. Browne, et al. (2022). Blood miR-144-3p: a novel diagnostic and therapeutic tool for depression . Molecular Psychiatry.

Hannah M. Cates, Nikita S. Persaud (2022). The Epigenetics of Anxiety Pathophysiology: A DNA Methylation and Histone Modification Focused Review . eneuro.

Hannah M. Cates, Catherine Jensen Peña, Milo Smith, Aarthi Ramakrishnan, Rosemary C. Bagot, Hope G. Kronman, Bhakti Patel, Austin B. Chang, Immanuel Purushothaman, Joel Dudley, et al. (2019). Early life stress alters transcriptomic patterning across reward circuitry in male and female mice . Nature Communications.

Hannah M. Cates, Chelsie E. Benca‐Bachman, Giordano Guglielmo, Sarah A. Schoenrock, Chang Shu, Marsida Kallupi(2019). National Institute on Drug Abuse genomics consortium white paper: Coordinating efforts between human and animal addiction studies . Genes, Brain and Behavior. p. e12577. Wiley

Hannah M. Cates, Casey K. Lardner, Rosemary C. Bagot, Rachael L. Neve, Eric J. Nestler(2019). Fosb Induction in Nucleus Accumbens by Cocaine Is Regulated by E2F3a . eneuro. 6. (2). p. ENEURO.0325--18.2019. Society for Neuroscience

Hannah M. Cates, Xuan Li, Immanuel Purushothaman, Pamela J. Kennedy, Li Shen, Yavin Shaham, Eric J. Nestler(2018). Genome-wide transcriptional profiling of central amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex during incubation of methamphetamine craving . Neuropsychopharmacology. 43. (12). p. 2426--2434. Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Hannah M. Cates, Juan Pablo Lopez, Laura M. Fiori, Cristiana Cruceanu, Rixing Lin, Benoit Labonte, Elizabeth A. Heller, Vincent Vialou, Stacy M. Ku, Christophe Gerald, et al.(2017). MicroRNAs 146a/b-5 and 425-3p and 24-3p are markers of antidepressant response and regulate MAPK/Wnt-system genes . Nature Communications. 8. (1). Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}

Hannah M. Cates, Catherine J. Peña, Hope G. Kronman, Deena M. Walker, Rosemary C. Bagot, Immanuel Purushothaman, Orna Issler, Yong-Hwee Eddie Loh, Tin Leong, Drew D. Kiraly, et al.(2017). Early life stress confers lifelong stress susceptibility in mice via ventral tegmental area OTX2 . Science. 356. (6343). p. 1185--1188. American Association for the Advancement of Science ({AAAS})

Lepack, A.E., Bagot, R.C., Peña, C.J., Loh, Y.-H.E., Farrelly, L.A., Lu, Y., Powell, S.K., Lorsch, Z.S., Issler, O., Cates, H.M., et al.(2016). Aberrant H3.3 dynamics in NAc promote vulnerability to depressive-like behavior . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113. (44). p. 12562-12567.

Cahill, M.E., Bagot, R.C., Gancarz, A.M., Walker, D.M., Sun, H., Wang, Z.-J., Heller, E.A., Feng, J., Kennedy, P.J., Koo, J.W., et al.(2016). Bidirectional Synaptic Structural Plasticity after Chronic Cocaine Administration Occurs through Rap1 Small GTPase Signaling . Neuron. 89. (3). p. 566-582.

Bagot, R.C., Cates, H.M., Purushothaman, I., Lorsch, Z.S., Walker, D.M., Wang, J., Huang, X., Schlüter, O.M., Maze, I., Peña, C.J., et al.(2016). Circuit-wide Transcriptional Profiling Reveals Brain Region-Specific Gene Networks Regulating Depression Susceptibility . Neuron. 90. (5). p. 969-983.

Ozburn, A.R., Purohit, K., Parekh, P.K., Kaplan, G.N., Falcon, E., Mukherjee, S., Cates, H.M., McClung, C.A.(2016). Functional implications of the CLOCK3111T/C single-nucleotide polymorphism . Frontiers in Psychiatry. 7. (APR).

Damez-Werno, D.M., Sun, H., Scobie, K.N., Shao, N., Rabkin, J., Dias, C., Calipari, E.S., Maze, I., Pena, C.J., Walker, D.M., et al.(2016). Histone arginine methylation in cocaine action in the nucleus accumbens . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 113. (34). p. 9623-9628.

Bagot, R.C., Cates, H.M., Purushothaman, I., Vialou, V., Heller, E.A., Yieh, L., LaBonté, B., Peña, C.J., Shen, L., Wittenberg, G.M., et al.(2016). Ketamine and Imipramine Reverse Transcriptional Signatures of Susceptibility and Induce Resilience-Specific Gene Expression Profiles . Biological Psychiatry.

Sun, H., Damez-Werno, D.M., Scobie, K.N., Shao, N.-Y., Dias, C., Rabkin, J., Koo, J.W., Korb, E., Bagot, R.C., Ahn, F.H., et al.(2015). ACF chromatin-remodeling complex mediates stress-induced depressive-like behavior . Nature Medicine. 21. (10). p. 1146-1153.

Li, X., Rubio, F.J., Zeric, T., Bossert, J.M., Kambhampati, S., Cates, H.M., Kennedy, P.J., Liu, Q.-R., Cimbro, R., Hope, B.T., et al.(2015). Incubation of methamphetamine craving is associated with selective increases in expression of Bdnf and Trkb, glutamate receptors, and epigenetic enzymes in cue-activated fos-expressing dorsal striatal neurons . Journal of Neuroscience. 35. (21). p. 8232-8244.

Walker, D.M., Cates, H.M., Heller, E.A., Nestler, E.J.(2015). Regulation of chromatin states by drugs of abuse . Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 30. p. 112-121.

Heller, E.A., Cates, H.M., Peña, C.J., Sun, H., Shao, N., Feng, J., Golden, S.A., Herman, J.P., Walsh, J.J., Mazei-Robison, M., et al.(2014). Locus-specific epigenetic remodeling controls addiction- and depression-related behaviors . Nature Neuroscience.

Cates, H.M., Thibault, M., Pfau, M., Heller, E., Eagle, A., Gajewski, P., Bagot, R., Colangelo, C., Abbott, T., Rudenko, G., et al.(2014). Threonine 149 phosphorylation enhances ΔFosB transcriptional activity to control psychomotor responses to cocaine . Journal of Neuroscience. 34. (34). p. 11461-11469.