Holly Korthas

PhD Graduate Student

Holly is a graduate student who joined Georgetown University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience in 2017 after graduating with a B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota. As an undergraduate, Holly studied the effects of estrogen on cocaine addiction in females under Dr. Paul Mermelstein, and the roles of APOE and BDNF in traumatic brain injury recovery in the lab of Drs. Janet Alder and Smita Thakker-Varia at Rutgers University. Holly’s dissertation research in the Laboratory for Brain Injury and Dementia focuses on understanding the dysregulation of sleep and circadian rhythms after high frequency head impacts and was funded by the Neural Injury and Plasticity T32 training grant in 2019-2020. She has experience with RNA/protein analysis, behavioral assays, and EEG.