Tiffany Timbers
Tiffany is a Neurogenomicist who is trying to unravel how we see, smell and taste the world around us. To accomplish this she uses advanced statistical genetic methods to reveal associations between the genome and the behavioral phenome of a model organism, C. elegans. The goal is to reveal new genes important for sensing and responding to the environment. When we uncover new sensory genes we then investigate their biological function in C. elegans and collaborate with human geneticists to assess their potential role in human sensory disorders... read more