Prof. Aaron D. Gitler Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Aaron D. Gitler is a professor in the department of genetics at Stanford University. He received his undergraduate training at Penn State University, a Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology at University of Pennsylvania, and completed postdoctoral training with Dr. Susan Lindquist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania in 2007 and moved to Stanford University in 2012, where he is currently Professor of Genetics. Aaron’s current area of interest is mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases.