Dr. Farah Lubin - a podcast by Nancy Padilla

Farah Lubin began her career as a neuroscientist just as the field was starting to wake up to the world of epigenetics and neuroimmunological techniques. Armed with a background in immunology from her PhD at SUNY Binghamton, Farah turned her interests to understanding the brain. In her first postdoc with Dr. Anne Anderson at Baylor College of Medicine, Farah studied how transcription factors changed in disease states, specifically epilepsy. She used her second postdoc at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to study these epigenetic mechanisms in learning and memory. Farah ended up starting her lab at UAB where she continues to study the epigenetics of learning and memory in health and disease. Throughout her career, Farah has faced obstacles directly relating to her race and gender as a Black woman, but she has persisted by following her passion for science. At UAB, she also serves as the director of the Roadmap Scholars program, where her identity and experience help her create a supportive environment for students from backgrounds that have been historically excluded from STEM.

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