Rods and Regulators: the Role of Rod Microglia and Interleukin1 Receptor-1 Signaling in CNS injury
Amara Davis graduate with honors from Eckerd College in 2018 in Molecular Biology and Political Science with a minor in Chemistry. She then joined the lab of Dr. Guy Bradley at the Tampa Bay Research Institute where she worked in developing vaccine adjuvant for 3 years. This work contributed to the establishment of two U.S. Patents, one of which was accepted as a U.S. Method of Use Patent in 2026. Amara join the NGP in 2021 to study neuroimmunology in the context of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the lab of Dr. Jonathan Godbout. Amara's dissertation work focusses on the Interleukin-1 Receptor-1 system in TBI pathogenesis. During her time at OSU she was awarded a tw0 year University Fellowship, the Ray Travel Award for Service and Scholarship, and a Chronic Brain Injury travel Award. Amara has published two first author papers and eight co-authored papers, with more to come.