Investigators and Program Directors

Abigail Snyder-Keller

Research Scientist, Wadsworth Center, Molecular Genetics
Director, Histopathology Core
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Biomedical Sciences

Ph.D., Psychobiology, University of Pittsburgh, 1983 (Dr. Michael Zigmond, advisor).
Postdoctoral training, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, 1983-1986 (Dr. Raymond Lund, advisor).

Select Publications

• Snyder-Keller, A., Tseng, K.Y., Lyng, G.D., Graber, D.J., and O´ Donnell, P., Afferent influences on striatal development in organotypic cultures, Synapse 62: 487-500 (2008).
• Snyder-Keller, A. and Stark, P.F., Prenatal inflammatory effects on nigrostriatal development in organotypic cultures, Brain Research 1233: 160-167 (2008).
• Tseng, K.Y., Snyder-Keller, A. and O'Donnell, P., Dopaminergic modulation of striatal up states in corticostriatal organotypic co-cultures, Psychopharmacology 191:627-640 (2007).
• Lyng, G.D., SnyderKeller, A. and Seegal, R.F., Dopaminergic development of prenatal ventral mesencephalion and striatum in organotypic cocultures, Brain Research 1133:19 (2007).
• Pabello, N.G., Tracy, S.J., Snyder-Keller, A. and Keller, R.W., Jr., Regional expression of constitutive and inducible transcription factors following transient focal ischemia in the neonatal rat: Influence of hypothermia, Brain Research 1038: 1121 (2005).

Contact Information

E-mail: snykell@wadsworth.org.