Jessica L. Bolton, Ph.D.

About

I am currently a new PI and Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University, having opened the Bolton Lab in January of 2021. I am particularly interested in developmental programming, or how early-life events, such as stress, can program offspring for altered physiological or behavioral outcomes in adulthood, and the role microglia (the innate immune cells of the brain) play in this phenomenon. I completed my PhD at Duke University in 2015 in the lab of Dr. Staci Bilbo, and completed my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California-Irvine in 2020 in the lab of Dr. Tallie Z. Baram.

Experience

• Assistant Professor at Georgia State University
  Jan 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 6 mos

  New PI of the Bolton Lab Investigating microglia-neuron interactions during brain development and early-life adversity

• Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Irvine
  Jun 2015 - Dec 2020 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  Department of Pediatrics Lab of Dr. Tallie Z. Baram Research on Perinatal Programming by Early-Life Stress

• Duke University (Durham, NC)
  • Graduate Student Researcher
    Jul 2010 - May 2015 · 4 yrs 11 mos

    Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Systems and Integrative Neuroscience Program Lab of Dr. Staci Bilbo--Psychoneuroimmunology Research

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Jan 2012 - Dec 2013 · 2 yrs

    Head TA for Biological Bases of Behavior (2 semesters) and TA for Fundamentals of Neuroscience (2 semesters)

• Southwestern University (Georgetown, TX)
  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
    Aug 2009 - May 2010 · 10 mos

    Research Methods TA

  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Aug 2007 - May 2010 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Behavioral Neuroscience Research with Dr. Fay Guarraci

• NSF Undergraduate Research Fellow at Duke University
  May 2008 - Aug 2008 · 4 mos

  National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates Mechanisms of Behavior Program Lab of Dr. Staci Bilbo