Sasha Fulton is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University in the laboratory of Dr. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor. Her work explores bidirectional communication pathways between periphery and the brain, and how those pathways influence biological outcomes. She is also interested in neuron-glial interactions and how understanding of adaptive glial phenotypes can be used to develop new therapeutic tools based on the vast diversity of cellular types and cellular states that emerge during the course of different environmental exposures, development, and disease. She hopes to apply her ongoing training in systems neuroscience and computational approaches with her experience in epigenetic processes to understand how experiences like stress, nerve injury, and pain shape genomic regulation in the context of these cellular transitions and apply those principles to push therapeutic strategies forward in new directions.

Sasha earned her Ph.D. at Mount Sinai Icahn school of Medicine mentored by Dr. Ian Maze, where her research focused primarily on neuroepigenetics and exploring chromatin-based mechanisms of neuropsychiatric diseases, including Major Depressive Disorder and Substance Use Disorder, as well as neurodevelopmental disorders.

Sasha completed her B.A. in Neuroscience at Columbia University, where she investigated the role of hippocampal neurogenesis in antidepressant efficacy using non-human primate models of Major Depressive Disorder.