Education
- Ph.D. in Neuroscience, University of Miami, 2000
Biography
Dr. Ana Lichtenberger, received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Miami in 2000. As a Professor, her teaching experience includes lectures and laboratories for majors and non-majors in the subjects of Anatomy, Physiology, Genetics, Biology and Senior Seminar at the undergraduate level, as well as Physiology and Neuroanatomy laboratory at the graduate level.
Her administrative duties include Co-Sponsor of the Beta Beta Beta Biology Honor Society, and Chair of the Biology Honor’s Committee. At the University level, her most recent professional service to the Faculty Senate is as Chair of the Retention and Dismissal Committee (2018 - 2020); she has also Chaired the Faculty Awards and Faculty Handbook Committees.
Dr. Ana Lichtenberger’s research interests have focused on sensory organs, corresponding mechanisms of trauma and consequent repair. Starting with hearing loss due to noise-induced trauma and the aging process, then continuing to the skin’s response to vibration as it ages during under non-traumatic conditions. Most recently, Dr. Ana Lichtenberger is collaborating with Dr. Laura Mudd using mouse fibrocytes grown in vitro to study mechanisms of wounding and its healing. Techniques used include distortion product acoustic emissions (DPOAEs) to measure hearing acuity, tacton to induce vibration against skin and most recently microscopic and chemical assay techniques.