Degrees:
Ph.D., Brown Univ.
B.S., Stockton Univ.
Dr. Bennett earned her PhD from Brown University and her Bachelor of Science degree from Stockton University in New Jersey. She completed her postdoctoral research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and was a recipient of an Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) sponsored by the National Institute of Health.
Dr. Bennett’s research focuses on understanding how the nervous system senses, responds to, and compensates for environmental and internal stress. Her work primarily uses Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic non-parasitic nematode worm, to investigate such questions. Dr. Bennett has taught courses in molecular and behavior genetics of neurological disease and the Principles of Developmental Biology. Her work has been published in Genes, Brain, and Behavior, as well as in PLOS One, and the Journal of Immunology. Dr. Bennett is a member of the Sleep Research Society, Genetics Society of America, and American Association for the Advancement of Science. |
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BIOL-183
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Cellular Basis of Life
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BIOL-226
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Foundations and Techniques in Molecular Biology
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BIOL-324
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Advanced Molecular Approaches in Neurobiology
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BIOL-431
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Signal Transduction in Physiological Stress and Disease
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Bennett HL, McClanahan PD, Fang-Yen C, Kalb R.G. Preconditioning of Caenorhabditis elegans to Anoxic Insult by Inactivation of Cholinergic, GABAergic, and Muscle Activity. Genes Brain Behavior. 2020 Nov 5:e12713. doi: 10.1111/gbb.12713. Online ahead of print. PMID: 33155386
- Huang H, Hayden DJ, Zhu CT, Bennett HL, Venkatachalam V, Skuja LL, Hart AC. Gap Junctions and NCA Cation Channels Are Critical for Developmentally Timed Sleep and Arousal in Caenorhabditis elegans. Genetics. 2018 Dec;210(4):1369-1381. doi: 10.1534/genetics.118.301551.
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Bennett, HL., Khoruzhik, Y., Hayden, D., Huang, H, Sanders, J., Walsh, MB., Biron, D., Hart, AC.Normal Sleep Bouts Are Not Essential for C. elegans Survival and FoxO Is Important for Compensatory Changes in Sleep. BMC Neuroscience. 2018 Mar 9;19(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s12868-018-0408-1.
- Sriram U, Xu J, Chain R, Varghese L, Bennett HL., Zoltick PW., and Gallucci S. IL-4 suppresses the responses to TLR7 and TLR9 stimulation and increases the permissiveness to retroviral infection of murine conventional dendritic cells. PLOS One 2014. Jan 29;9(1): e87668. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087668.
- Sriram U, Varghese L, Bennett HL., Jog N, Shivers DK., Ning Y, Behrens EM., Caricchio R, and Gallucci, S. Myeloid Dendritic Cells from B6.NZM Sle1/Sle2/Sle3 Lupus-prone Mice express an Interferon Signature that Precedes Disease Onset. Journal of Immunology 2012 Jul 1;189(1):80-91. doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1101686.
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- Cell Press’ Cell Mentor, listed as one of 1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America, 2020
- Tri-Beta Biology Honor Society Faculty Inductee, 2017
- IRACDA K12 Postdoctoral Fellowship University of Pennsylvania PENN PORT Program, 2015
- Honorable Mention Ford Foundation Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, 2014
- Genetic Society of America (GSA) FASEB MARC Program Travel Award, 2013
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