Elaine L Bearer is an American neuroscientist, pathologist, and composer.
13 Facts About Elaine Bearer
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Elaine Bearer received the Masters of Art from New York University, where her thesis was Structural Innovation in the String Quartets of Haydn.
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Elaine Bearer received the combined MD-PhD degree from University of California San Francisco.
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Elaine Bearer was recruited to a tenure track position at Brown University in 1991 and rose in the ranks to full professorship.
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Together with collaborator Russell E Jacobs, Bearer developed and deployed longitudinal manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging coupled with behavior, transgenic mouse models, biochemistry, and optical microscopy to explore brain-wide responses to experience and disease over time.
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Since 2009, Elaine Bearer has been the Harvey Family Professor in Pathology at University of New Mexico, a visitor at California Institute of Technology, and an Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Elaine Bearer is a fellow of the College of American Pathologists.
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In 2019 The Manhattan School awarded Elaine Bearer the Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2020, she received a Campaign Alumni Award for "most audacious" from University of California, San Francisco.
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Elaine Bearer's newly composed string quartet premiered at the award ceremony.
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Elaine Bearer's research began with studies of membrane dynamics involved in synaptic transmitter release.
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Elaine Bearer developed imaging labels for anionic lipids and made the earliest observations of membrane lipid rafts.
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In 2004, Bearer began developing magnetic resonance imaging with Russell E Jacobs, John D Roberts, and Scott E Fraser for live imaging of circuitry in mouse models of human neurological and psychiatric disorders.
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Elaine Bearer is a composer, who has had performances annually of new compositions.