BBI Member Dr. Kimberly Aldinger, assistant professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Genetic Medicine and an adjunct assistant professor of Neurology at the University of Washington. She is also a principal investigator in the Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute.
BBI: Thanks for being with us today Dr. Aldinger! Could you first tell us the story of how you got involved in science and in your specific area of research?
Dr. Aldinger: I was always interested in biology in general, and as my schooling and earliest formal training in science progressed, I became fascinated with DNA. I was amazed that these three billion nucleotides could compact into a single cell and store all the information that controls every cell in our body. I was also interested in the brain. I was in Boston at this time. It was a great place to be for people interested in the brain and in genetics.
