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MySci@Scripps 2008 Speaker

Beth Thomas

Elizabeth (Beth) Thomas is originally from Temperance, Michigan.  She received her Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and then her Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, Irvine, in 1994.  She joined the Scripps Research Institute in as a Research Associate in 1995 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology.  Her laboratory studies molecular mechanisms of neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders.  In particular, she uses functional genomics approaches to identify genes that are abnormally expressed in human post-mortem samples from diseased subjects, animal models of disease and in response to drug treatment.  The goal of these studies is to achieve a better understanding of dysfunctional systems in these disorders and to provide a basis for new therapeutic approaches and disease prevention.