Dr. Allison Bond is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She was born in Baltimore, Maryland and grew up in the surrounding suburbs. Allison attended Northwestern University in Chicago for her undergraduate degree in Psychology and became interested in neuroplasticity while working in Dr. Catherine Woolley’s lab.

Allison received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Northwestern University where she worked in Dr. Jack Kessler’s lab studying extracellular signaling mechanisms that regulate neural stem cells and neurogenesis in the adult hippocampus. Allison then completed her postdoc in Dr. Hongjun Song’s lab at Johns Hopkins and then at the University of Pennsylvania where she explored the link between neural stem cells in development and adulthood.

Allison is very excited to start her own lab studying neural stem cells across the lifespan. Her lab’s research will focus on how developmental changes in the extracellular environment or niche impact neural stem cell function. Allison strongly believes that people are the foundation of excellent science and aims to create a supportive and inclusive mentoring environment for all trainees.