Wendy Wenderski

Wendy is a postdoctoral fellow in the Deisseroth lab studying the role of brain chromatin regulation in social behavior. She earned her PhD in Developmental Biology in 2022 with Gerald Crabtree at Stanford University identifying causal chromatin mechanisms in autism and Down syndrome. She earned her MA in Biology in 2014 from Hunter College while studying chromatin regulation in embryonic development and adult memory as a research assistant to C. David Allis at The Rockefeller University. She earned her B.S. in Biology at UC Santa Barbara in 2007 after transferring from Pasadena City College.