Profiles in "Aging" Expertise Area
- Dr. Baker works to understand former caregivers of those with dementia so he can help them garner the psychosocial resources and technological tools to thrive.
- Dr. Racette's research expertise encompasses long-term calorie restriction interventions to optimize healthspan, exercise programs to enhance cardiorespiratory fitness, and lifestyle interventions to promote healthy aging.
- Dr. Andel’s research revolves around risk factors for cognitive aging and impairment, health and aging, and disaster response in community and long-term care settings.
- Kelsi Watkins is a Ph.D. student investigating single-cell transcriptomic and gene regulatory changes in the macaque brain across age and social status.
- The Tseng Lab studies how normal aging and age-related risk factors lead to neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and aims to develop potential therapeutic strategies.
- [ACCEPTING GRADUATE STUDENTS] Keiser's research examines molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that mediate learning and memory in the adult, aging and Alzheimer’s female and male brain.
- Salekin serves as an assistant professor at the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering and as a graduate faculty in Computer Science, advising PhD students in the Computer Science program.