Lab Members
Damon Page
Principal Investigator
Email: paged@scripps.edu
Damon, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, received his bachelor’s degree in biology from Eastern Oregon University in 1999 and his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2002. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the MRC Laboratory of
Molecular Biology from 2002 to 2004 and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 2004 to 2009; he worked as a research scientist at
MIT from 2009 to 2010.
Amy Clipperton Allen
Research Associate
Email: aallen@scripps.edu
Amy graduated in 2011 with a Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Guelph. She studied the involvement of estrogens and their receptors in social behaviour and social learning in mice, with Dr. Elena Choleris. Amy will initially be working on developing an autism-related behavioral test battery, and using it to begin phenotyping Pten haploinsufficient and Pten null mutant mice.
Youjun Chen
Research Associate
Email: ychen@scripps.edu
Youjun graduated in 2010 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a PhD in Neuroscience. She studied the roles of APC and APC2 in the development of mouse nervous system in Dr William Snider’s lab. Youjun is investigating the effects of Pten on neuron growth and synaptogenesis using mouse genetic models.
Oscar Diaz Ruiz
Research Associate
Email: odiaz@scripps.edu
Oscar graduated in 2009 with a Ph.D. in Chemical and Biological Sciences from the National Polytechnic Institute. His thesis was on the role of Pten in dopaminergic neurons. Before joining the Page Lab, he worked as a Research Associate at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Baltimore, Maryland, where he focused on the behavioral and anatomical characterization of Pten and Beta-catenin deficient mice. Oscar is currently exploring the dopamine and serotonin circuits in the neurobiology of autism.
Danielle Llaneza
Intern - Graduate Student
Email: dllaneza@scripps.edu
Danielle Llaneza graduated from University at Albany- SUNY in 2008 with a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. She entered the Behavioral Neuroscience program at SUNY in 2008 and examined behavioral changes in response to endogenous and exogenous changes in steroid hormones. In particular, she focused on sex differences in social and affective behaviors relevant for autism spectrum disorders. Danielle will be focused on behavioral and neuroanatomical characterization of genetic models of ASD.
Julien Sejourne
Research Associate
Email: jsejourn@scripps.edu
Julien graduated in 2009 with a Ph.D in Neurosciences from the University Pierre et Marie Curie of Paris. His work focused on the study of neuronal networks and on the dynamics of olfactory memory phases in Drosophila with Dr. T. Preat. Julien will be working on the role of genes implicated in autism in the
development of excitatory-inhibitory (E/I) circuit balance, using mouse and Drosophila as model systems.
Wen-Chin "Brian" Huang
Graduate Student
Email: whuang@scripps.edu
Brian joined the Page Lab in August 2012 for his first rotation with the Kellogg School of Science and Technology graduate program.
Trina Kemp
Administrative Assistant Sr
Email: tmiles@scripps.edu
Trina Kemp joined Scripps in July 2009 as Administrative Assistant. She supports Dr. Ronald L. Davis, Professor and Chair and Dr. Damon Page, Assistant Professor in the Department. Trina’s background includes more than 15 years of administrative support experience.
Alumni
Ian Apap: research technician, winter 2012
Ankit Kaushik: undergraduate summer intern (SURF Fellow) from Georgia Tech, 2012
Hashna Manoharan: high school student intern (Kenan Fellow) from FAU High School, 2012