Elyse (van Spyk) Noelani Greenberg PhD

Elyse van Spyk is obtained her B.S. in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior with honors from UC Davis in 2011. From 2011-2012, She was a laboratory manager/technician for the Chief of Surgical Research at the VA Hospital of Northern California. In 2012, she joined UCI’s CMB graduate program. She currently a Ph.D. Candidate and NSF GRFP fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Bogi Andersen in Biological Chemistry. her research focuses on how feeding time and the circadian clock influence skin biology.

Specifically, she has found that abnormal meal timing alters the sensitivity to UVB-induced DNA damage and the immune response in the mouse skin. These findings may be geared towards the development of chronotherapeutics for skin diseases, with meal-timing as a key variable.