First-year student wins American Physiological Society Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship

Gabriela Timoney, a first-year student in the School of Arts & Sciences, has received an Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship from the American Physiological Society to conduct research with Dr. Linda Boland (biology) this coming summer.

Timoney’s research was supported during the summer prior to her freshman year by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The School’s HHMI grant supports a number of pre-freshmen who demonstrate outstanding aptitude in the sciences. The program is designed to encourage students to begin taking advantage of undergraduate research opportunities early.

Over the course of last summer and the proceeding two semesters, Timoney has worked in Dr. Boland’s lab, studying the structural basis of the dual effects of fatty acid on Kv4 channel function, something that may be critical to synaptic memory formation. 

Timoney was one of 24 Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship recipients. She intends to declare a major in biochemistry and molecular biology. She will receive $3,000 plus a travel allowance to support her work this summer.   

Posted April 3, 2008