Carol Huseby

Carol Huseby is a Research Professor at Arizona State University (ASU), affiliated with the School of Life Sciences and the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center. She holds appointments in the Neuroscience (PhD) program and conducts research on neurodegenerative diseases.

Education:

• B.Sc. Physics and Biology, University of Washington, Seattle
• M.Sc. Applied Mathematics (neuronal firing models)
• Ph.D. Biophysics, The Ohio State University (focus: Alzheimer’s disease and tau protein aggregation)

Research: Her work investigates molecular mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS, and frontotemporal dementia. Key areas include structural biology of protein aggregates, transcriptional changes in disease progression, and cryo-electron microscopy applications. She explores how protein structure-function relationships drive disease-specific pathologies.

Awards:

• NRSA NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship

Teaching/Advising: She oversees undergraduate research and honors thesis programs (BIO 492/493/495). No specific grants mentioned, but her postdoctoral work was supported by the Arizona Alzheimer’s Consortium.

Labs/Teams: Active in the NDRC Biodesign Center, focusing on neurodegenerative disease comparisons and early molecular mechanisms.