Petersburg Pilot -

Jayne Aiken, a graduate of Petersburg High School Class of 2008, successfully completed her Doctor of Philosophy degree at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in the field of Cell Biology, Stem Cells, and Development. She received the Dean's Outstanding Dissertation Award for her Ph.D. dissertation titled "Building a Brain: Interrogating How the α-Tubulin Gene TUBA1A Contributes to Neurodevelopment". Jayne will be continuing her work in neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she will be investigating the formation of synapses in the cerebral cortex.