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Catherine Sullivan

Research Assistant Pediatrics
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Research Assistant Pediatrics

Biography

Catherine Sullivan received her Bachelor of Arts in Biology from Western Connecticut State University. She went on to receive her Master's of Science in Cellular and Molecular Biology with a Professional Certificate in Bioinformatics at the University of New Haven. She proceeded to work at Yale for 7 years on breast cancer research in the Yale Oncology department looking at biomarkers that predict survival or treatment success. Catherine then transitioned to the Yale Child Study Center and Yale Pediatrics where she has worked on the genetics of autism since 2012.

Last Updated on April 07, 2025.

Education & Training

MS
University of New Haven, Cellular and Molecular Biology (2005)
BA
Western Connecticut State University, Biology (2003)

Research

Overview

We are interested in studying the genetics of autism, regression and other childhood neurological disorders. Our primary focus is on Childhood Disintegrative Disorder (CDD), a rare form or autism in which a child is typically developing until at least age 3 and then experiences a major regression in which they lose skills such as social, language, play and toiletry. After regression, these children are diagnosis on the spectrum, and most with intellectual disorder. As regression is found in roughly 30% of children on the spectrum, we are interested in studying the potential genetic causes of regression as they may shed light on the biological pathways involved in CDD. You can find out more about the Yale CDD study here: https://campuspress.yale.edu/yalecddstudy

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Catherine Sullivan's published research.

Publications

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2020

  • Identification of amygdala-expressed genes associated with autism spectrum disorder
    Herrero MJ, Velmeshev D, Hernandez-Pineda D, Sethi S, Sorrells S, Banerjee P, Sullivan C, Gupta AR, Kriegstein AR, Corbin JG. Identification of amygdala-expressed genes associated with autism spectrum disorder. Molecular Autism 2020, 11: 39. PMID: 32460837, PMCID: PMC7251751, DOI: 10.1186/s13229-020-00346-1.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research
  • Beliefs in vaccine as causes of autism among SPARK cohort caregivers
    Fombonne E, Goin-Kochel R, O'Roak B, Abbeduto L, Aberbach G, Acampado J, J. A, Albright C, Alessandri M, Amaral D, Amatya A, Anglo C, Annett R, Arriaga I, Ashley R, Astrovskaya I, Baalman K, Baer M, Bahl E, Balasubramanian A, Baraghoshi G, Bardett N, Barnard R, Bashar A, Beaudet A, Beckwith M, Beeson L, Bentley D, Bernier R, Berry-Kravis E, Boland S, Booker S, Bradley C, Brewster S, Brooks E, Brown M, Brueggeman L, Butler M, Butter E, Callahan K, Camba A, Carbone P, Carpenter L, Carpenter S, Carriero N, Cartner L, Casten L, Chatha A, Chin W, Chintalapalli S, Cho D, Chung W, Clark R, Cohen C, Coleman K, Columbi C, Coppola L, Courchesne E, Cubells J, Currin M, Daniels A, David G, DeMarco L, Dennis M, Dent K, Dichter G, Ding Y, Dinh H, Doan R, Doddapaneni H, Eichler E, Eldred S, Eng C, Erickson C, Esler A, Fatemi A, Feliciano P, Fischer G, Fish A, Fisk I, Fombonne E, Foster M, Fox E, Francis S, Friedman S, Ganesan, Garrett M, Gazestani V, Geisheker M, Gerdts J, Geschwind D, Ghaziuddin M, Gibbs R, Goin-Kochel R, Gonzalez N, Goudreau L, Griswold A, Grosvenor L, Gruber A, Gulsrud A, Gunderson J, Gunter C, Gupta A, Gutierrez A, Hale M, Haley M, Hall J, Hamer K, Han B, Hanna N, Hardan A, Harkins C, Harrington G, Harris J, Harris N, Hauf B, Hayes C, Heerwagen K, Hepburn S, Herbert L, Heyman M, Higgins L, Hilscher B, Hofammann E, Hojlo M, Horner S, Hsieh A, Hu J, Huang-Storms L, Hunter S, Hutter H, Istephanous D, Jacob S, Jaramillo N, Jelinek A, Jensen W, Jones M, Jordy M, Jorgenson A, Jou R, Juarez A, Judge J, Jurayj J, Kalmus T, Kanne S, Kaplan H, Kasparson L, Kent M, Kim S, Kitaygorodsky A, Koene H, Koomar T, Korchina V, Krentz A, Schneider H, Lamarche E, Lampert E, Landa R, Lash A, Law J, Lawson N, Layman K, Lechniak H, Lee S, Lee S, Coury D, Martin C, Lesher L, Li H, Li D, Lillie N, Liu X, Lopez M, Lord C, Lowe K, Mallardi M, Manning P, Manoharan J, Marini R, Martin C, Marzano G, Mason A, Mastel S, Matthews E, McCracken J, McKenzie A, Miceli A, Michaelson J, Milliken A, Mohiuddin S, Momin Z, Morrier M, Mostofsky S, Murali S, Muzny D, Myers V, Neely J, Nessner C, Nicholson A, Niederhouser M, O'Brien K, O'Connor E, O'Neil M, O'Roak B, Ochoa-Lubinoff C, Orobio J, Orrick L, Ortiz C, Ousley O, Pacheco L, Palmer S, Pandey J, Paolicelli A, Pawlowski K, Pierce K, Piven J, Plate S, Polanco J, Popp M, Pottschmidt N, Pramparo T, Prock L, Qi H, Qiu S, Rachubinski A, Rajbhandari K, Rana R, Ranganathan V, Raymond L, Remington R, Rice C, Rigby C, Robertson B, Rodriguez N, Rodriguez B, Roeder K, Rosenberg C, Russo-Ponsaran N, Ruzzo E, Sabo A, Sahin M, Salomatov A, Sandhu S, Santangelo S, Sarver D, Scherr J, Schultz R, Schweers K, Shaffer R, Shah S, Shaikh T, Shen Y, Shocklee A, Shulman L, Siegel M, Simon A, Simon L, Singh V, Skinner S, Smith C, Smith K, Snyder L, Soorya L, Soucy A, Stamps D, Steele M, Stephens A, Stock C, Sullivan C, Sutcliffe J, Sutcliffe J, Swanson A, Tafolla M, Takahashi N, Taylor C, Thomas C, Thomas T, Thompson S, Tjernagel J, Turner T, Valicenti-McDermott M, Van Metre B, Van Wade C, Veenstra-Vanderweele J, Verdi M, Vernoia B, Volfovsky N, Wallace J, Walston C, Wang J, Wang T, Warren Z, Wasserburg L, White S, White-Lehman L, Wodka E, Xu S, Yang W, Yinger M, Youngkin S, Yu T, Zang L, Zaydens H, Zhang H, Zhao H, Zhou X, Zick A. Beliefs in vaccine as causes of autism among SPARK cohort caregivers. Vaccine 2020, 38: 1794-1803. PMID: 31924427, PMCID: PMC10515441, DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2019.12.026.
    Peer-Reviewed Original Research

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