Affiliation: Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine, Department of Translational Neuroscience

Maggie Caulfield received her PhD in immunology from Northwestern University, Chicago, IL in 2013 and completed post-doctoral training in neurology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN in 2016. Dr. Caulfield then spent 3 years as an assistant professor of Biology at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI teaching and studying sex differences in immune cell responses in CNS autoimmune disease. Dr. Caulfield is currently a senior research associate in the Steece-Collier lab in Michigan State University’s College of Human Medicine, Department of Translational Neuroscience where she focuses on the pre-clinical analysis of gene-therapy based interventions to reduce common therapeutic side effects in Parkinson’s disease as well as precisions medicine strategies to increase the efficacy of stem cell replacement therapies in neurodegeneration. Her laboratory skill set includes a variety of cellular, molecular, and histological techniques such as cell culture, flow cytometry, RNA in situ hybridization, dd/qPCR, western blot, ELISA, immunohistochemistry, confocal microscopy, stereotaxic surgery, and animal behavior ratings.