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Dr. Elaine Ritter is a postdoctoral research associate at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Sciences at Florida State University and conducted her honors thesis work in the laboratory of Dr. David Gilbert. Her work focused on the influence of DNA replication timing in neural specification of embryonic stem cells. Dr. Ritter completed her PhD in Cell & Molecular Neuroscience at Vanderbilt University under the mentorship of Dr. Michelle Southard-Smith. In her thesis work, she discovered that serotonin signaling via the 5-HT3 receptor is required for the development of autonomic and sensory innervation of the bladder in mice. Dr. Ritter then worked with Dr. Donna Martin at the University of Michigan in the Department of Pediatrics, where she studied the chromatin remodeler CHD7 and its function in sensory nervous system development. She is currently studying genetic and epigenetic drivers of neuroblastoma, a pediatric malignancy derived from the neural crest. Dr. Ritter is an expert in developmental neurobiology, neural crest development, sensory neuroscience, and mouse genetics.

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Employment (2)

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Memphis, TN, US

2023-05-08 to present | Postdoctoral Research Associate (Oncology)
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University of Michigan Medical School: Ann Arbor, MI, US

2018-01-29 to 2022-06-30 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Pediatrics)
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Education and qualifications (2)

Vanderbilt University School of Medicine: Nashville, TN, US

2010-08 to 2018-01-05 | Cell & Molecular Neuroscience (Vanderbilt Brain Institute)
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Florida State University: Tallahassee, FL, US

2006-08 to 2010-05 | B.S. Biological Sciences (Biological Sciences)
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Funding (2)

Roles for Serotonin in Autonomic Innervation of the Lower Urinary Tract

2013-09-05 to 2017-09-04 | Grant
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (Bethesda, US)
GRANT_NUMBER: F31DK097938
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Sensory Mechanisms and Disorders

1983-07-01 to 2024-06-30 | Grant
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (Bethesda, US)
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Works (11)

Lineage-Selective Dependencies in Pediatric Cancers.

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine
2024-05-28 | Book chapter
Contributors: Ritter KE; Durbin AD
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CHD7 and SOX2 act in a common gene regulatory network during mammalian semicircular canal and cochlear development

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2024-03-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Jingxia Gao; Jennifer M. Skidmore; Jelka Cimerman; K. Elaine Ritter; Jingyun Qiu; Lindsey M. Q. Wilson; Yehoash Raphael; Kelvin Y. Kwan; Donna M. Martin
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Loss of the chromatin remodeler CHD7 impacts glial cells and myelination in the mouse cochlear spiral ganglion.

Hearing research
2022-10-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Ritter KE; Lynch SM; Gorris AM; Beyer LA; Kabara L; Dolan DF; Raphael Y; Martin DM
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Epigenetic mechanisms of inner ear development.

Hearing research
2022-01-13 | Journal article
Contributors: Balendran V; Ritter KE; Martin DM
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5-HT3 Signaling Alters Development of Sacral Neural Crest Derivatives That Innervate the Lower Urinary Tract.

International journal of molecular sciences
2021-06-25 | Journal article
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Chromatin remodeler CHD7 is critical for cochlear morphogenesis and neurosensory patterning.

Developmental biology
2021-05-15 | Journal article
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Scar Formation and Debris Elimination during Hair Cell Degeneration in the Adult DTR Mouse.

Neuroscience
2020-12-05 | Journal article
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Neural crest contributions to the ear: Implications for congenital hearing disorders.

Hearing research
2018-11-14 | Journal article
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Void spot assay procedural optimization and software for rapid and objective quantification of rodent voiding function, including overlapping urine spots.

American journal of physiology. Renal physiology
2018-07-04 | Journal article
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Serotonin Receptor 5-HT3A Affects Development of Bladder Innervation and Urinary Bladder Function

Frontiers in Neuroscience
2017-12-12 | Journal article
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Dynamic Expression of Serotonin Receptor 5-HT3A in Developing Sensory Innervation of the Lower Urinary Tract

Frontiers in Neuroscience
2017-01-06 | Journal article
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