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The Lab!

The Lab!

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Caitlin and EEGs

Caitlin and EEGs

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Stereotax ready

Labor Day movers

Labor Day movers

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Morgan and brains!

Morgan and brains!

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Macauley Lab

Macauley Lab

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Biosensors

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ABOUT

As part of the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer's Disease Prevention at Wake Forest School of Medicine, the Macauley Lab focuses on the role of metabolic dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 1 in 8 Americans over the age of 65 has Alzheimer’s disease, nearly 1 in 2 has AD by the age of 85, and AD accounted for an estimated $183 billion in health care costs to Americans in 2011. Similarly, type-2-diabetes is metabolic disorder that affects approximately 346 million people worldwide, with an estimated 3.4 million dying from diabetes in 2004 alone. Since recent studies demonstrate that patients with type-2-diabetes have an increased risk for developing AD, the goal of our research is to understand how metabolic disruption affects Alzheimer's disease and whether shared mechanisms between type-2-diabetes and Alzheimer's disease can be targeted therapeutically.

LAB MEMBERS

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Shannon L. Macauley, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Macauley's CV        

Assistant Professor, Gerontology & Geriatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Education/Training: BA, Middlebury College; PhD, Washington University School of Medicine; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Washington University School of Medicine
 

Shannon L. Macauley earned her BA in Biology and Psychology from Middlebury College (Middlebury, VT) and worked in translational neuroscience at Genzyme Corporation (Boston, MA) prior to graduate school.  Dr. Macauley completed her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Washington University (St. Louis, MO) with Dr. Mark Sands and her postdoctoral training in Alzheimer’s disease in the laboratory of Dr. David Holtzman at Washington University (St. Louis, MO).  Dr. Macauley joined the Sticht Center for Healthy Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention at Wake Forest Baptist Health as an Assistant Professor in August 2017.  The goal of Dr. Macauley’s research is to understand central nervous system (CNS) disease and how mechanistic drivers of neuronal dysfunction, such as metabolic dysfunction, sleep impairment, vascular damage, and neuroinflammation, can be targeted therapeutically,  To date, her work has focused on two main areas: first, the study of mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease and the development of CNS therapeutics as it relates to lysosomal storage diseases.  Second, the exploration of the link between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease, how metabolic challenges affect normal brain function in health and disease, and how metabolic dysfunction can be targeted as a therapeutic approach for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes.

Current Members  

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Stephen
Day, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

T32 fellow

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Caitlin
Carroll

5th year PhD Student

Neuroscience

F31 awardee

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Morgan
Pait

5th year  PhD Student

Physiology & Pharmacology

F31 Awardee

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John
Grizzanti, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

T32 fellow

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Andy
Snipes

Research Assistant

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Lab Manager Extraordinaire

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Sarah
Kaye

3rd year PhD student

Neuroscience

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Sami
Vincent

2nd year Undergraduate

Past Members  

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Dave
Rubinow, MS

Masters Student

Neuroscience

Current: Kallyope Inc.

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Khadijah
Winkey, MS

Masters Student

Neuroscience

Current: Clinical Coordinator ADRC

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Charlotte Hollingsworth

Lab Manager

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Lily
Deitelzweig

High School Student intern
Current: Undergrad UT-Austin

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Matthew
Parker

WSSU, ENGAGED Scholar

Current: Master's Student

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