Division of Sleep Medicine @ Harvard Medical School

Trainee Profile

Nina Vujovic, BA

Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School
Graduate Student, Division of Medical Sciences, Program in Neuroscience, Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Graduate Student, Systems Neurobiology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

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Inter-office Mail Address

HMS 819

Fax 617-667-0810

Email nvujovic@fas.harvard.edu

Society Memberships

Society for Neuroscience, Society for Research on Biological Rhythms

Research Unit(s)

Systems Neurobiology Group (Saper), Division of Sleep Medicine, Program in Neuroscience (at Harvard Medical School) in the Division of Medical Sciences of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

Research Interests

The suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) regulates and synchronizes rhythms of behavior, physiology and gene expression throughout the body, but the mechanism by which it does so is not well understood. My research is focused on the role neural outputs of the SCN play in entraining the whole organism and on hypothalamic neurocircuitry integrating time cues from the SCN with other regulators of arousal state and physiology.

Mentor(s)

Clifford B. Saper, Patrick M. Fuller

Research Funding

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Teaching

MCB 186 - Circadian Biology: From Cellular Oscillators to Sleep Regulation, teaching fellow, Fall 2008

Selected Publications

Vujovic N, Davidson AJ, Menaker M. Sympathetic input modulates, but does not determine, phase of peripheral circadian oscillators.
Am J Physiol Regul Integr Comp Physiol. 2008 Apr 23. [PMID: 18434440]

Stornetta RL, Rosin DL, Simmons JR, McQuiston TJ, Vujovic N, Weston MC, Guyenet PG. Coexpression of vesicular glutamate transporter-3 and gamma-aminobutyric acidergic markers in rat rostral medullary raphe and intermediolateral cell column.
J Comp Neurol. 2005 Nov 28;492(4):477-94. [PMID: 16228993]