Satinder Kaur Singh PhD
Assistant Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Biographical Info
Satinder was born in Boston, MA and moved, as a teenager, to Minneapolis, MN
with her family. She received her doctoral
degree in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics from the University of Minnesota
– Twin Cities, supported by an HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship.
She has had a long-standing interest in the
molecular mechanisms of neuropsychiatric disease,
particularly in the role that the biogenic amines play. As a postdoctoral fellow, she combined her
knowledge of neuropsychopharmacology and enzymology with X-ray crystallography
to develop molecular models of transport and inhibition for LeuT, a bacterial orthologue
of neurotransmitter sodium symporters (NSS). At Yale Satinder has been concentrating on
eukaryotic NSS members, specifically those that transport the biogenic amines serotonin (SERT), dopamine (DAT), and norepinephrine (NET).
Education & Training
- B.S.
- University of Minnesota (1995)
- Ph.D.
- University of Minnesota (2002)
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Columbia University, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics (2003 - 2005)
- Postdoctoral Fellow
- Oregon Health and Science University, Vollum Institute (2005 - 2008)
Honors & Recognition
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (declined)
National Science Foundation - HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1997) - NIH/NINDS Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship
National Institutes of Health (2003) - Goodman & Gilman Yale Scholar Award
Yale University School of Medicine (2010) - NIH/NIMH K99/R00 "Pathway to Independence Award"
National Institutes of Health (2008) - Sloan Research Fellowship Award
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2012)
