Departments
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Roles
Dr. Severs is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Aakanksha Singhvi, in the Basic Sciences Department at Fred Hutch Cancer Center. She is interested in studying how glia communicate with neurons to impact behavior, and how this changes with age. Specifically, Dr. Severs is examining how sense-organ glia in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans contribute to sensory acuity in adult and aged animals. Dr. Severs is interested in utilizing microscopy and calcium imaging in freely moving animals combined with genetics and molecular biology to answer these research questions.
