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Professional Medical Writer | Scientific Editor | Manuscripts/Abstracts, Grants, Posters, Presentations, Critical Review
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Work Experience
Local Networking Coordinator, Toronto
American Medical Writers Association
November 2020 - Present
Medical Writer
Medical Communications Agency | Toronto, Canada
June 2020 - Present
Volunteer Medical Writer and Scientific Editor
Pet Cancer Fund | Educating on concepts of veterinary oncology
April 2020 - Present
Newsletter Editor, Knowledge Translation Subcommittee
University of Toronto Centre for the Study of Pain
September 2018 - June 2020
Research Fellow | Studying sex differences in spinal mechanisms of chronic pain
The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) | Toronto, Canada | Neurosciences and Mental Health Department
April 2017 - June 2020
PhD Research Assistant | Studying neurotrophic factors and neuromuscular disease
Michigan State University | East Lansing, MI | Neuroscience Program
August 2012 - February 2017
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Toronto Mississauga | Psychology Department
September 2009 - August 2012
Education
PhD | Neuroscience
Michigan State University
August 2012 - December 2016
Hons. BSc | Psychology, Specialization in Behaviour, Genetics, and Neurobiology
University of Toronto Mississauga
September 2008 - June 2012
Certifications
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Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Katherine Halievski, Shahrzad Ghazisaeidi, Michael W. Salter(2020). Sex-dependent mechanisms of chronic pain: A focus on microglia and P2X4R . Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. p. jpet.120.265017. American Society for Pharmacology {\&} Experimental Therapeutics ({ASPET})
(2020). Muscle BDNF improves synaptic and contractile muscle strength in Kennedy's disease mice in a muscle-type specific manner . The Journal of Physiology.
Katherine Halievski, Samir R. Nath, Masahisa Katsuno, Hiroaki Adachi, Gen Sobue, S. Marc Breedlove, Andrew P. Lieberman, Cynthia L. Jordan (2019). Disease Affects <i>Bdnf</i> Expression in Synaptic and Extrasynaptic Regions of Skeletal Muscle of Three SBMA Mouse Models . International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
(2018). Pre-clinical symptoms of SBMA may not be androgen-dependent: implications from two SBMA mouse models . Human molecular genetics.
(2017). Muscle Contraction Regulates BDNF/TrkB Signaling to Modulate Synaptic Function through Presynaptic cPKCα and cPKCβI . Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience.
(2016). Decreased Peak Expiratory Flow Associated with Muscle Fiber-Type Switching in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy . PloS one.
(2016). Non-Cell-Autonomous Regulation of Retrograde Motoneuronal Axonal Transport in an SBMA Mouse Model . eNeuro.
(2016). Defects in Neuromuscular Transmission May Underlie Motor Dysfunction in Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy . The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.
(2015). Androgen-dependent loss of muscle BDNF mRNA in two mouse models of SBMA . Experimental neurology.
(2015). Distinct Etiological Roles for Myocytes and Motor Neurons in a Mouse Model of Kennedy's Disease/Spinobulbar Muscular Atrophy . The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience.
(2015). Transcriptional profile of muscle following acute induction of symptoms in a mouse model of Kennedy's disease/spinobulbar muscular atrophy . PloS one.
(2015). Contractile dysfunction in muscle may underlie androgen-dependent motor dysfunction in spinal bulbar muscular atrophy . Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985).
(2012). The effects of vitamin D₃ during pregnancy and lactation on offspring physiology and behavior in sprague-dawley rats . Developmental psychobiology.
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