Sandra Cardenas Garcia

Program: Neurosciences

Current advisor: Erik D. Herzog, PhD

Undergraduate university: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2018

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Study the role of the sodium leak channel (NaLCN) in regulating neuronal excitability and communication within the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), the central pacemaker in mammals.

Graduate publications
Nikhil KL, Bates K, Sapiro E, Amme JL, McCarthy R, Speck SL, Vasireddy V, Roberts E, Martin-Fairey CA, Domínguez-Romero ME, Cárdenas-García SP, England SK, Herzog ED. 2026 Fetoplacental Circadian Rhythms Develop and Then Synchronize to the Mother In Utero. J Biol Rhythms, ():Online ahead of print. PMCID: PMC13078692

Gonzalez-Aponte MF, Damato AR, Trebucq LL, Simon T, Cárdenas-García SP, Cho K, Patti GJ, Golombek DA, Chiesa JJ, Rubin JB, Herzog ED. 2024 Circadian regulation of MGMT expression and promoter methylation underlies daily rhythms in TMZ sensitivity in glioblastoma. J Neurooncol, 166(3):419-30. PMCID: