Safa Bouabid
Postdoctoral Researcher
Safa joined the Howe lab as a postdoc in the fall of 2019. She obtained a B.S. in Life Sciences and an M.S. in Health Sciences and Technology from the University of Angers in France before earning a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Mohammed V University of Rabat/Morocco through the graduate partnership program with the team of Neurochemistry, DBS, and Parkinson’s disease at the University of Bordeaux/France. She studied the impact of manganese neurotoxicity on motor and non-motor parkinsonian-like deficits and on Basal Ganglia neuronal activity. Safa previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, where she studied the spiking mechanisms of striatal projection neurons in parkinsonian motor dysfunction and in dopamine-induced behavioral abnormalities. Her research employed multi-disciplinary approaches including in-vivo electrophysiology, chemogenetics, pharmacology, molecular biology, and behavior. In the Howe lab, Safa uses 2-photon imaging and fiber photometry to examine the dynamics of glutamatergic signaling in the striatum.