Welcome Dr. Ina Anreiter
We would like to welcome Dr. Ina Anreiter (Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough; Departments of Cell & Systems Biology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) as a new faculty member to the CPIN community.
Dr. Anreiter's research interests center around how animal behaviour is regulated throughout development and in response to experience. Her lab’s current research focuses on understanding the role of epigenetic and epitranscriptomic gene regulation in development, behavior, and health and disease. Dr. Anreiter completed a BSc in Biology and a MSc in Molecular Genetics and Biomedicine at the University of Lisbon. Having developed an interest in animal behaviour, she subsequently pursued her Doctorate under supervision of Dr. Marla Sokolowski at the University of Toronto, studying how epigenetic mechanisms regulate gene expression to affect individual differences in behaviour. After her PhD, Dr. Anreiter was awarded the prestigious Schmidt Science Fellowship, which allowed her to pivot into computer science for a year under supervision of Dr. Jared Simpson, a leading expert in Oxford Nanopore Sequencing tool development. Her work with Dr. Simpson focused on leveraging new computational methods to assess transcriptomic marks on mRNA. Before starting her current appointment at the University of Toronto, Dr. Anreiter worked with Dr. Thomas Clandinin at Stanford University School of Medicine as an inaugural Stanford Science Fellow, to study the role of epitranscriptomics mechanisms in brain development, brain function, and behaviour.
