Amy Ghiretti
Name: Amy Ghiretti
Position: Graduate Student
Education: B.S., Biology, College of William and Mary, 2008
Contact: aeghir@brandeis.edu
Hometown: New Providence, NJ
Personal Interests: TV, movies, and entertainment news in general
If I weren’t a scientist I’d be… a writer for Entertainment Weekly.
Research Interests: My project involves the activity-dependent GTPase Rem2 and its role in synapse development. The overexpression of Rem2 leads to a decrease in intracellular calcium levels, and Rem2 is also the only member of its protein family to be highly expressed in neurons. In addition, RNAi of Rem2 in neurons results in a decrease in both excitatory and inhibitory synapses. I am interested in understanding how Rem2’s role in calcium regulation might be linked to its effects on synapse formation.