Education

(2021-Present) PhD Candidate, Neuroscience
University of California Los Angeles

(2011-2015) Bachelor of Arts in Biology
Reed College

Research Experience

(2018-2021) Research Associate III
Stanley Center of Psychiatric Research
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Laboratory of Dr. Beth Stevens

(2015-2018) Research Assistant II
Department of Molecular and Medical Genetics
Oregon Health & Science University
Laboratory of Dr. Susan Hayflick

Research Interests

Neurodevelopment, Neurodegeneration, Neuropsychiatric disorders, Genetics & Precision Medicine, Bioinformatics

Publications

Hanson C*, Derebenskiy T*, Rodriguez Vega A, Kamte YS, Fox RG, Sathe L, Lambing H, Dietterich TE, Hawes D, Nehme R, Pietiläinen O, Palotie A, Allard P, Pimentel H, Wells MF(2026). Cell villages and Dirichlet modeling map human cell fitness genetics. American Journal of Human Genetics.

Scala M, Khan K, Beneteau C, Fox RG, von Hardenberg S, Khan A, Joubert M, Fievet L, Musquer M, LeVaillant C, Holsclaw JK, Lim D, Berking A-C, Accogli A, Giacomini T, Nobili L, Striano P, Zara F, Torella A, Nigro V, Cogné B, Salick MR, Kaykas A, Eggan K, Capra V, Bézieau S, Davis EE, Wells MF (2024). Biallelic loss-of-function variants in CACHD1 cause a novel neurodevelopmental syndrome with facial dysmorphism and multisystem congenital abnormalities. Genetics in Medicine.

Baum ML, Wilton DK, Fox R, Carey A, Hsu Y-HH, Hu R, et al (2024). CSMD1 regulates brain complement activity and circuit development. Brain Behav Immun.

Tommasini D, Fox R, Ngo KJ, Hinman JD, Fogel BL (2023). Alterations in oligodendrocyte transcriptional networks reveal region-specific vulnerabilities to neurological disease. iScience.

Cif L, Demailly D, Lin J-P, Barwick KE, Sa M, Abela L, [...]Fox R, [...] Coubes P, Gorman KM, Kurian MA (2020). KMT2B-related disorders: expansion of the phenotypic spectrum and long-term efficacy of deep brain stimulation. Brain.

Pedersen H, Jensen RK, Jensen JMB, Fox R, Pedersen DV, Olesen HG, Hansen AG, Christensen D, Mazarakis SMM, Lojek N, Hansen P, Gadeberg TAF, Zarantonello A, Laursen NS, Mollnes TE, Johnson MB, Thiel S, Andersen GR (2020). A Complement C3–Specific Nanobody for Modulation of the Alternative Cascade Identifies the C-Terminal Domain of C3b as Functional in C5 Convertase Activity. The Journal of Immunology.

Zarantonello A, Presumey J, Simoni L, Yalcin E, Fox R, Thiel S, Johnson MB, Stevens BA, Laursen NS, Carroll MC, Andersen GR (2020). An Ultrahigh-Affinity Complement C4b-Specific Nanobody Inhibits In Vivo Assembly of the Classical Pathway Proconvertase. The Journal of Immunology.

Jeong SY, Hogarth P, Placzek A, Gregory A, Fox R, Zhen D, Hamada J, van der Zwaag M, Lambrechts R, Jin H, Nilsen A, Cobb J, Pham T, Gray N, Ralle M, Duffy M, Schwanemann L, Rai P, Freed A, Wakeman K, Woltjer RL, Sibon O, Hayflick SJ (2019). 4’-Phosphopantetheine corrects CoA, iron, and dopamine metabolic defects in mammalian models of PKAN. EMBO Molecular Medicine.

Gregory A, Lotia M, Jeong SY, Fox R, Zhen D, Sanford L, Hamada J, Jahic A, Beetz C, Freed A, Kurian MA, Cullup T, van der Weijden MCM, Nguyen V, Setthavongsack N, Garcia D, Krajbich V, Pham T, Woltjer R, George BP, Minks KQ, Paciorkowski AR, Hogarth P, Jankovic J, Hayflick SJ (2019). Autosomal dominant mitochondrial membrane protein-associated neurodegeneration (MPAN). Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine.

Kasapkara ÇS, Tümer L, Gregory A, Ezgü F, İnci A, Derinkuyu BE, Fox R, Rogers C, Hayflick SJ (2019). A new NBIA patient from Turkey with homozygous C19ORF12 mutation. Acta Neurologica Belgica.

Di Meo I, Colombelli C, Srinivasan B, de Villiers M, Hamada J, Jeong SY, Fox R, Woltjer RL, Tepper PG, Lahaye LL, Rizzetto E, Harrs CH, de Boer T, van der Zwaag M, Jenko B, Cusak A, Pahor J, Kosec G, Grzeschik NA, Hayflick SJ, Tiranti V, Sibon OCM (2017). Acetyl-4’-phosphopantetheine is stable in serum and prevents phenotypes induced by pantothenate kinase deficiency. Scientific Reports.

Personal Interests

When I'm not in lab you can find me exploring the LA food scene, cooking overly-complicated meals, splashing around a tide pool looking for creatures, or ID-ing birds and bugs