Kristin Richardson
Biography
Kristin is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Sokol Todi’s Lab. She obtained her PhD in the department of Physiology at Wayne State University in 2023, where she studied adaptive responses to exercise in the brain as well as the effects of genetic diversity on disease severity. Her postdoctoral work now focuses on age-related neurodegenerative disease using various whole organism, genetic and molecular approaches in Drosophila.
Education
WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE 2017 – 2023
Ph.D. – Department of Physiology
EDINBORO UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 2012 – 2016
B.A. Biology Pre – Physical Therapy – Minor Psychology
Publications
- Richardson K, Sengupta M, Sujkowski A, Libohova K, Harris AC, Wessells RJ, Merry DE, Todi SV. A phenotypically robust model of Spinal and Bulbar Muscular Atrophy in Drosophila. bioRxiv. [IN REVIEW at JNR]. (2023)
- Richardson K, Wessells RJ. A novel panel of Drosophila TAFAZZIN mutants in distinct genetic backgrounds as a resource for therapeutic testing. PLoS one. (2023).
- Damschroder D, Zapata-PeÃÅrez R, Richardson K, Vaz FM, Houtkooper RH, Wessells R. Stimulating the sir2-spargel axis rescues exercise capacity and mitochondrial respiration in a Drosophila model of Barth syndrome. Dis Model Mech. (2022)
- Sujkowski A, Richardson K, Prifti MV, Wessells RJ, Todi SV. Endurance exercise ameliorates phenotypes in Drosophila models of spinocerebellar ataxias. Elife. (2022)
- Damschroder D*, Richardson K*, Wessells R. The effects of genetic background on exercise performance in Drosophila. Fly. (2020)
- Richardson KA, Wessells RJ. Commentary: Octopamine Drives Endurance Exercise Adaptations in Drosophila. J Neurol Neuromed (2018)