Curriculum Designer

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Dr. Muratore holds a PhD in Pharmacology from Northeastern University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology with a Specialization in Neuroscience from Boston University.

She has spent the last five years studying the causes and effects of neurodegenerative diseases in Dr. Deth’s Lab at Northeastern. Her daily practice there included collecting and analyzing data, both from experimentation and from the current literature.

Currently, she works as a research fellow in the division of Neuroscience at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. There, she conducts research at the Center for Neurologic Diseases on induced pluripotent stem cells for the study of neurodegenerative disease. In collaboration with the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, her research aims to generate and analyze data from Alzheimer's patents in order to better understand how certain alleles increase risk for Alzheimer's Disease.

Dr. Muratore has designed the classroom-based curriculum for our 2011 initiative to give students the background they need to make the most of their field experiences and design their conservation projects to be effective and informed.

From her six years as a laboratory technician, including a year at Harvard University and a year at Boston University prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Muratore brings a vast knowledge of the current literature in the biological field.

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She has experience in animal handling and behavior and experimental research in both macro- and microbiology. Before beginning her graduate studies, Christina ran a biology program for Science Club for Girls, a Cambridge-based nonprofit that aims to increase science knowledge in girls from different racial, ethnic or socio-economic backgrounds.

Having taught university science courses for the past four years, she has honed her summer curriculum to focus on students’ gaining the science skills from which successful college and graduate students in her program benefit: comprehension of primary- and secondary-source data, data analysis individually and collaboratively, clear and thoughtful written critiques of scientific studies, careful presentation of collected data, and the ability to give policy recommendations grounded in research.