Alison Barth was born in the state of Maryland, but her family later moved to the states of Kansas, Wisconsin, and Ohio throughout her childhood. She received a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Brown University.[5] She received her Ph.D. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley (1997), and conducted her post-doctoral research in neurophysiology at Stanford University (2001).[6]
Research and career
During her time at Stanford University, Barth developed and filed a provisional patent for the “fosGFP” mouse, a transgenic mouse that labels green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression in vivo and visualizes neurons undergoing plasticity.[7][8]
At Carnegie Mellon University, Barth's research focuses on understanding how the brain changes in response to experience, particularly in the context of learning and memory.[5][9] She studies the somatosensory cortex of rodents, investigating how synapses are altered as animals undergo different types of experiences.[10]
Honors and awards
In 2012, she received the McKnight Foundation's Memory and Cognitive Disorders Award.[11] In 2014, she received the Kaufman Grant to study neural communication in the cerebral cortex.[12]
She was awarded the Society for Neuroscience's Research Award for Innovation in Neuroscience and the Career Development Award in 2008,[13] and she received the Humboldt Foundation's Bessel Research Award in 2009.[14]
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