Erik S. Carlson

Year entered: 2001 

Degrees Received:

B.A. Philosophy/Biology, Lawrence University, 1999
Ph.D., Neuroscienc Graduate Program, 2008

Honors and Awards:
Dr Warren J. Warwick and Henrietta Holm Warwick Fellowship, Department of Pediatrics, 2007-2008

Thesis Advisor: Michael Georgieff, M.D. and Michael O'Connor, Ph.D.,  Neuroscience Graduate Program

Thesis Research: 

I am working in the lab of Michael Georgieff, M.D. We are using dietary and genetic tools to model the effects of perinatal iron deficiency in the developing forebrain. We use several tools including high-field (9.4 T) NMR spectroscopy, immunohistology, to characterize molecular, biochemical and structural effects, and the Morris Water Maze to measure behaviroal/neurocognitive outcomes.

Publications:

Carlson ES, Tkac I, Magid R, O'Connor MB, Andrews NC, Schallert T, Gunshin H, Georgieff MK, and A Petryk. Iron is essential for neuron development and memory function in mouse hippocampus. J Nutr., in press.

Carlson ES, Magid R, Petryk A, and MK Georgieff. Iron deficiency alters expression of genes implicated in allzheimer disease pathogenesis.  Brain Res. 2008 [Epub ahead of print].

Tran PV, Carlson ES, Fretham SJB, and MK Georgieff. Early-life Iron Deficiency anemia alters neurotrophic factor expression and hippocampal neuron differentiation in rats. J Nutr. In press.

Carlson ES, Stead JD, Neal CR, Petryk A, Georgieff MK. Perinatal iron deficiency results in altered developmental expression of genes mediating energy metabolism and neuronal morphogenesis in hippocampus. Hippocampus. 2007;17:679-691.