Annika Barber, Ph.D.

K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Photo of Annika Barber, Ph.D.
Institution
University of Pennsylvania, , PA
Awarded Project
Integration of circadian and homeostatic signals in a peptidergic circuit in Drosophila

NINDS K99/R00 Awardee – January 2018
Independent Position: Waksman Institute, Rutgers

Annika Barber was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. In the lab of Dr. Amita Sehgal, her research focused on understanding the coordination of competing and complementary behaviors such as circadian rhythms, sleep, feeding, and mating in the pars intercerebralis, a proto-hypothalamic region in Drosophila. Annika received her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Thomas Jefferson University and her B.S. in Biology from Bryn Athyn College of the New Church. Currently, Dr. Barber is an Assistant Professor at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers.