Satinder Kaur Singh, PhD
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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) and dopamine (DAT).
Education & Training
- Postdoctoral FellowOregon Health and Science University (2008)
- Postdoctoral FellowColumbia University (2005)
- PhDUniversity of Minnesota, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, & Biophysics (2002)
- BSUniversity of Minnesota, Biochemistry (1995)
Honors & Recognition
Award | Awarding Organization | Date |
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NARSAD Independent Investigator Award | Brain & Behavior Foundation | 2015 |
Sloan Research Fellowship Award | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation | 2012 |
Goodman & Gilman Yale Scholar Award | Yale University School of Medicine | 2010 |
NIH/NIMH K99/R00 "Pathway to Independence Award" | National Institutes of Health | 2008 |
NIH/NINDS Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship | National Institutes of Health | 2003 |
HHMI Predoctoral Fellowship | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 1995 |
NSF Predoctoral Fellowship (declined) | National Science Foundation | 1995 |
Departments & Organizations
- Cellular & Molecular Physiology
- Structural Biology
- Yale Ventures