Nicholas J. Justice, PhD
Nicholas Justice obtained a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley, with a major in Molecular and Cellular Biology and a minor in Philosophy. He completed honor’s thesis undergraduate work with John Ngai studying the olfactory system in zebrafish. Moving across the bay to San Francisco, he completed his graduate studies in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He studied in the lab of Yuh Nung Jan where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on mechanisms of neural cell fate specification in Drosophila melanogaster. For post-doctoral training, Nick moved to the Salk Institute in San Diego, where he studied under Wylie Vale and learned the intricacies of how the body responds to stress. He then moved to Houston as an Instructor at Baylor College of Medicine studying stress in Alzheimer’s Disease, before accepting a faculty position at IMM.