Dr. Bloodgood graduated from UC San Diego in 2001 with a B.S. in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience and received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard Medical School in 2006. As a graduate student working with Bernardo Sabatini she investigated the role of dendritic spines in shaping synaptic signals. Dr. Bloodgood conducted her postdoctoral studies in Michael Greenberg’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School where she began exploring the role of inducible transcription factors in regulating inhibitory synapses. Currently Dr. Bloodgood’s lab is focused on understanding how the activity of a neuron is interpreted by the genome to orchestrate behaviorally relevant circuit plasticity.