Dr. Walker Jackson

Curriculum Vitae

Walker Jackson received B.S. degrees in Biochemistry and Biological Sciences from Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL in 1997.  He earned his Ph.D. in 2003 from the University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL with Dr. Peter Detloff, where he developed and characterized an allelic series of knock-in mice to address important mechanistic questions related to polyglutamine diseases.  His postdoctoral research was with Dr. Susan Lindquist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/MIT, Cambridge, MA.  After creating a new allelic series of knock-in mice to study prion diseases, he worked on new behavioral and imaging methods to study the progression of disease in vivo. In 2011 he left the USA to join the DZNE-Bonn as a group leader.