Kimberly Meerschaert, PhD

E-mail

kim42@pitt.edu

Education & Training

B.A., Saginaw State University (2018)
PhD, University of Pittsburgh (2021)

Campus Address

BST, 14th floor

Laboratory

Brian Davis

Graduation Year

2021

One-Line Research Description

Investigating vagal and spinal afferents in visceral sensations and pain

Representative Publications

Smith-Edwards KM, Edwards BS, Wright CM, Schneider S, Meerschaert KA, Ejoh LL, Najjar SA,
Howard MJ, Albers KM, Heuckeroth RO, Davis BM. Sympathetic Input to Multiple Cell Types in Mouse
and Human Colon Produces Region-Specific Responses. Gastroenterology. 2021 Mar;160(4):1208-
1223.e4. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2020.09.030. Epub 2020 Sep 24. PMID: 32980343; PMCID: PMC7956113.

Meerschaert, K. A., Adelman, P. C., Friedman, R. L., Albers, K. M., Koerber, H. R., Davis, B. M.
(2020) Unique molecular characteristics of visceral afferents arising from different levels of the neuraxis:
location of afferent somata predicts function and stimulus detection modalities. Journal of Neuroscience.
40(38): 7216-7228.


Synder, L., Chiang, M., Loeza-Alcocer, E., Omori, Y., Hachisuka, J., Sheahan, T., Gale., J., Adelman, P.,
Sypek, E., Fulton, S., Friedman, R., Wright, M., Giraldo Duque, M., Lee, Y., Hu, Z., Huang, H., Cai,
X., Meerschaert, K., Nagarajan, V., Hirai, T., Scherrer, G., Kaplan, D., Porreca, F., Davis, B., Gold, M.,
Koerber, H., Ross, S. (2018) Kappa Opioid Receptor Distribution and Function in Primary
Afferents. Neuron. 99(6):1274-1288

Dissertation

Alumni Current Affiliation

Postdoctoral Researcher, Harvard University