Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School

Trainee Profile

Elizabeth E. Hur, PhD

Research Fellow in Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Research Fellow, Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Address

330 Brookline Avenue
E/CLS-717-17F
Boston, MA 02215
USA

Inter-office Mail Address

CLS 717-17F

Phone 617-735-3239
Fax 617-735-3249

Email eehur(at)bidmc.harvard.edu

Society Memberships

Society for Neuroscience
Sleep Research Society
Sigma Xi
Graduate Women in Science
New York Academy of Sciences

Research Unit(s)

Systems Neurobiology Group (Saper)

Research Interests

My major research interest is elucidating the neural circuitry that controls sleep and wakefulness, particularly the ascending arousal system. We use neuroanatomical and physiological recording methods to study the specific components of these systems. I am also interested in circadian rhythms and neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and schizophrenia.

Mentor(s)

Clifford B. Saper, MD, PhD

Research Funding

American Foundation for Aging Research

Teaching

Teaching fellow for Neurobiology of Behavior, Harvard University

Selected Awards and Honors
Sleep Research Society Meritorious Abstract Award, 2008

Rutgers University Dean’s Dissertation Award for outstanding doctoral thesis, 2008

Society for Neuroscience Women in Neuroscience Travel Award, 2007

Selected Publications

Hur EE, Edwards RH, Rommer E, Zaborszky L. Vglut1 and Vglut2 synapses on cholinergic neurons in the sublenticular gray of the rat basal forebrain: a double-label electron microscopic study.
Neuroscience. 2009 Sep 22. [Epub ahead of print] [PMID: 19778580]

Wouterlood FG, Aliane V, Boekel AJ, Hur EE, Zaborszky L, Barroso-Chinea P, Härtig W, Lanciego JL, Witter MP. Origin of calretinin-containing, vesicular glutamate transporter 2-coexpressing fiber terminals in the entorhinal cortex of the rat.
J Comp Neurol. 2008 Jan 10;506(2):359-70. [PMID: 18022947]

Hur EE, Zaborszky L. Vglut2 afferents to the medial prefrontal and primary somatosensory cortices: a combined retrograde tracing in situ hybridization.
J Comp Neurol. 2005 Mar 14;483(3):351-73. [PMID: 15682395]