
Ariel VanLeuven, PhD
Ariel VanLeuven, PhD
Ariel VanLeuven, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cellular Biology and Anatomy
Russell Hall 163, 1425 Prince Avenue, Athens, GA 30602
Education
PhD in Cellular Biology: University of Georgia, 2018
BS in Cellular Biology: University of Georgia, 2013
Honors / Awards / Achievements
Interdisciplinary Certificate in Teaching and Learning, University of Georgia, 2018
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Georgia, 2016
1st Place: UGA Cellular Biology 3-Minute Thesis Competition, 2016
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship Recipient, 2009
Selected Publications
VanLeuven, A.J., Park, S., Menke, D.B., and Lauderdale, J.D. “A polyacrylamide gelelectrophoresis (PAGE) screening approach for identifying CRISPR-Cas9 induced mutations in zebrafish.” 2018, BioTechniques, 64 (6): 275-278. doi: 10.2144/btn-2018-0012
O’Connor, M.J., Beebe, L.L., Deodato, D., Ball, R.E., Page, A.T., VanLeuven, A.J., Harris, K.T., Park, S., Lauderdale, J.D., and Dore, T.M. “Bypassing Glutamic Acid Decarboxylase 1 (GAD1) Induced Craniofacial Defects with a Photoactivatable Translation Blocker Morpholino.” 2019, ACS Chemical Neuroscience, 10 (1): 266-278. doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.8b00231
Liu, Y., Dale, S., Ball, R.E., VanLeuven, A.J., Sornborger, A., Lauderdale, J.D., and Kner, P. “Imaging neural events in zebrafish larvae with linear structured illumination light sheetmicroscopy.” 2019, Neurophotonics, 6 (1): 015009. doi: 10.1117/1.NPh.6.1.015009
Educational Activities
Clinical Gross Anatomy
Developmental Biology
Clinical Genetics