Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator, Linus Pauling Institute
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Linus Pauling Institute
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351 Linus Pauling Science Center mortimea@oregonstate.eduVrailas-Mortimer Lab Website
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Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer
Associate Professor
Principal Investigator, Linus Pauling Institute
Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Linus Pauling Institute
Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer received her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology from Emory University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in aging and physiology there as well. She has been an assistant professor at the University of Denver and Illinois State University and an associate professor at Illinois State University.
Research
Her research explores how and why humans age and the link between aging and age-dependent diseases such as Parkinson’s diseases, Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease and muscular dystrophies.
Education
Ph.D., Genetics and Molecular Biology, Emory University
B.S., Biology, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
