Dena Michelle Godwin Hernandez is a

neurogeneticist Neurogenetics studies the role of genetics in the development and function of the nervous system. It considers neural characteristics as phenotypes (i.e. manifestations, measurable or not, of the genetic make-up of an individual), and is mainly bas ...

. She is head of the

genomic Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

technologies group in the laboratory of neurogenetics at the National Institute on Aging. Hernandez completed a Ph.D. at the

UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology The UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology is an institute within the Faculty of Brain Sciences of University College London, University College London (UCL) and is located in London, United Kingdom. Together with the National Hospital for Neur ...

in 2016. Her dissertation was titled ''Genetic variation and DNA methylation in the context of neurological disease''. Hernandez's doctoral advisors were

Andrew Singleton Andrew B. Singleton is a British neurogeneticist currently working in the USA. He was born in Guernsey, the Channel Islands in 1972, where he lived until he was 18 years old. His secondary education was conducted at the Guernsey Grammar School ...

and John Hardy.

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