PEOPLE IN THE LAB
 |
Eva
Alden |
Personal:
Hello! My name is Eva Alden and although I am a San Francisco native, I have spent the last 6 years on the east coast. I attended Tufts University in Boston, MA where I received a B.A. in Biological-Psychology and Biomedical Engineering. After completing my undergraduate education, I worked for Children’s Hospital Boston in the Vascular Biology Department. My research was focused on the role of platelets in angiogenesis as well as platelet biogenesis. The bulk of my research was aimed at assessing the alpha granule content of platelets using fluorescence microscopy, biochemical analysis, and molecular biology. After dabbling in cell biology for a little over a year, I decided it was time for a change. I went back to my roots in biological-psychology and joined the research team of Dr. Johan Lundstrom at the Monell Chemical Senses Center, where I am involved in research on the perception and processing of odors in the human brain. To address a broad range of research questions I am testing subjects using psychophysical, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging methods. In the future, I plan to attend graduate school where I hope to continue research involving functional imaging methods.
Publications:
Alden, E.C, Gordon, A.R., Hernandez, M., Olsson, M.J., and Lundström, J.N. (2009). Mind over age – Social priming and olfactory function (Conference Abstract)
Robert Flaumenhaft, James R. Dilks, Jennifer Richardson, Eva Alden, Sunita R. Patel-Hett, Elisabeth Battinelli, Giannoula L. Klement, Martha Sola-Visner, and Joseph E. Italiano, Jr (2009) Megakaryocyte-derived microparticles: direct visualization and distinction from platelet derived-microparticles. Blood, 113 (5):1112-1121.
Sunita Patel-Hett, Hongbei Wang, Eva C. Alden, Nancy Wandersee, Xiuli An, Mohandas Narla, Ramesh A. Shivdasani, John Morrow, John H. Hartwig, Joseph E. Italiano, Jr. Assembly and dynamics of the membrane skeleton during thrombopoiesis (In Preparation)