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Medical Scientist Training Program
Cora Helton

Cora Helton

G1 Student

Faculty Advisor

  • Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS, Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy

Locations

  • Medical Scientist Training Program

Contact Information

Education

BS, Biology, Indiana University, 2023

Research Interests

Epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, movement disorders

Research Experience

Medical College of Wisconsin, 2025-Present
Advisor: Kunal Gupta, MD, PhD, FAANS
Project: Prevention of Epileptogenesis by Canonical Wnt Activation

Indiana University-Bloomington, 2019-2023
Advisor: Dr. Soni Lacefield
Project: The role of protein mechanisms on chromosome segregation, spindle formation and developmental disorders

Roche Diagnostics, 2018-2019, Advisor: Michael Wheeler
Project: Electrochemistry and metal alloy composition for Accu-Check diabetes test strips

Publications

Helton C, Rodgers N, Klosa P, Van Newenhizen E, Hodges M, Jones M, Gupta K. A novel computational method for rodent electrographic recording and analysis using off-the-shelf intracerebral depth electrodes. MethodsX. 2024 Dec 11;14:103106. doi: 10.1016/j.mex.2024.103106. PMID: 39790365; PMCID: PMC11714666.

Cairo G, Greiwe C, Jung GI, Blengini C, Schindler K, Lacefield S. Distinct Aurora B pools at the inner centromere and kinetochore have different contributions to meiotic and mitotic chromosome segregation. Mol Biol Cell. 2023 May 1;34(5):ar43. doi: 10.1091/mbc.E23-01-0014. Epub 2023 Mar 15. PMID: 36920098; PMCID: PMC10162408.

Meeting Abstracts

Helton C, Rodgers N, Klosa P, Van Newenhizen E, Hodges M, Jones M, Gupta K. A novel computational method for rodent electrographic recording and analysis using off-the-shelf intracerebral depth electrodes. Medical College of Wisconsin Clinical Neuroscience Research Day. May 2025. [Poster]

Greiwe C. Bmh1 interacts with DNA-binding proteins to repair double stranded breaks after meiotic recombination. Summer Symposium for the Undergraduate Advanced Research Grant at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, July 2022. [Poster]

General Interests

Violin, piano, painting, Taekwondo, hiking, baking

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