Rebecca studied genetics and visual art with a concentration in photography at the Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University, earning a B.F.A. She combined these interests during her doctoral work looking at stress-induced morphology of the IL2 neurons in C. elegans and completed her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in how the neuron responds to overwhelming stress and what implications this has for neuronal health and aging.
Education/Training:
| Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J | B.F.A. | 05/2013 | Genetics and Visual Art, Concentration in Photography |
| The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL | Ph.D. | 08/2020 | Neuroscience |
Publications:
- Rebecca J. Androwski, Nadeem Asad, Janet G. Wood, Allison Hofer, Steven Locke, Cassandra M. Smith, Becky Rose, Nathan E. Schroeder. 2020. Mutually exclusive dendritic arbors in C. elegans neurons share a common architecture and convergent molecular cues. PLOS Genetics, 16(9).
- Thapa, S., Gates, M.K., Reuter-Carlson, U., Androwski, R.J. and Schroeder, N.E., 2019. Convergent evolution of saccate body shapes in nematodes through distinct developmental mechanisms. EvoDevo, 10(1), p.5.
- Rebecca J. Androwski, Kristen M. Flatt, Nathan E. Schroeder. 2017. Phenotypic plasticity and remodeling in the stress-induced C. elegans dauer. WIREs Developmental Biology.
- Juan Wang, Rachel Kaletsky, Malan Silva, April Williams, Leonard A. Haas, Rebecca J. Androwski, Jessica N. Landis, Cory Patrick, Alina Rashid, Dianaliz Santiago-Martinez, Maria Gravato-Nobre, Jonathan Hodgkin, David H. Hall, Coleen T. Murphy, Maureen M. Barr. 2015. Cell-Specific Transcriptional Profiling of Ciliated Sensory Neurons Reveals Regulators of Behavior and Extracellular Vesicle Biogenesis. Current Biology. 25(24):3232-38.
- Schroeder NE, Androwski RJ, Rashid A, Lee H, Lee J, Barr MM. 2013. Dauer-specific dendrite arborization in C. elegans is regulated by KPC-1/Furin. Current Biology. 23(16):1527-35.