Katherine E. Dembny

Grad Program
Class of
2020


Education: 
University of Texas - Austin
Neurobiology and Women's & Gender Studies majors, Chemistry and Elements of Computing Cert minors
B.S./B.A., 2017

MSTP Student Governance:

  • Student Advisory Committee, 2022-24 (chair 2023-24)
  • Student Admissions and Recruitment Committee, 2022-23
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, 2020-24

Thesis Advisors: Tay Netoff, Ph.D.,  Alex Herman, M.D., Ph.D., and David Darrow, M.D., M.P.H.

Publications

Work prior to the UMN MSTP

Wayne NJ, Dembny KE, Pease T, Saba F, Zhao X, Masison DC, Greene LE. Huntingtin Polyglutamine Fragments Are a Substrate for Hsp104 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Mol Cell Biol. 2021 Oct 26;41(11):e0012221. PMCID: PMC8547424

UMN MSTP student Katherine Dembny