| Bankston, Adriana, Layton, Rebekah L., Van Wart, Audra. "Building tomorrow's biomedical workforce: advancing scholarship, innovation and systemic change." Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, vol. Volume 10 - 2025, 2025. |
| Van Wart A, Mende U, Kimberly J, Bourjeily G, Rounds S. "Advance RI-CTR K Scholar Career Development Program: A one-year intensive program for developing early career faculty in an IDeA state." Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 8(s1), 2024, pp. 37-37. |
| Van Wart A, Djorić D, D'Silva NM, Layton R, Hardy L, Suelzer E, Tetzlaff JE. "An emerging field: An evaluation of biomedical graduate student and postdoctoral education and training research across seven decades." PLOS ONE, vol. 18, no. 7, 2023, pp. e0282262. |
| Patrick D. Brandt , Susi Sturzenegger Varvayanis, Tracey Baas, Amanda F. Bolgioni, Janet Alder, Kimberly A. Petrie, Isabel Dominguez, Abigail M. Brown, C. Abigail Stayart, Harinder Singh, Audra Van Wart, Christine S. Chow, Ambika Mathur, Barbara M. Schreiber, David A. Fruman, Brent Bowden, Christopher A. Wiesen, Yvonne M. Golightly, Chris E. Holmquist, Daniel Arneman, Joshua D. Hall, Linda E. Hyman, Kathleen L. Gould, Roger Chalkley, Patrick J. Brennwald , Rebekah L. Layton. "A cross-institutional analysis of the effects of broadening trainee professional development on research productivity." PLoS biology, vol. 19, no. 7, 2021. |
| Van Wart A, O'Brien TC, Varvayanis S, Alder J, Greenier J, Layton RL, Stayart CA, Wefes I, Brady AE. "Applying Experiential Learning to Career Development Training for Biomedical Graduate Students and Postdocs: Perspectives on Program Development and Design." CBE life sciences education, vol. 19, no. 3, 2020, pp. es7. |
| Van Wart, A., Friedlander, M.J. "VT-BEST: Shaping biomedical professional development programming across colleges and campuses." BEST: Implementing Career Development Activities for Biomedical Research Trainees. 1st Ed, edited by Chalkley, R., Academic Press, 2020, pp. 215-225. |
| Meyers FJ, Mathur A, Fuhrmann CN, O'Brien TC, Wefes I, Labosky PA, Duncan DS, August A, Feig A, Gould KL, Friedlander MJ, Schaffer CB, Van Wart A, Chalkley R. "The origin and implementation of the Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training programs: an NIH common fund initiative." The FASEB Journal, vol. 30, no. 2, 2016, pp. 507-14. |
| Nagakura I, Van Wart A, Petravicz J, Tropea D, Sur M. "STAT1 regulates the homeostatic component of visual cortical plasticity via an AMPA receptor-mediated mechanism." Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 34, no. 31, 2014, pp. 10256-63. |
| Mao R, Schummers J, Knoblich U, Lacey CJ, Van Wart A, Cobos I, Kim C, Huguenard JR, Rubenstein JL, Sur M. "Influence of a subtype of inhibitory interneuron on stimulus-specific responses in visual cortex." Cerebral Cortex, vol. 22, no. 3, 2012, pp. 493-508. |
| LeMasurier M, Van Wart A. "Reviews on the visual cortex: a tribute to Hubel and Wiesel." Neuron, vol. 75, no. 2, 2012, pp. 181. |
| Runyan CA, Schummers J, Van Wart A, Kuhlman SJ, Wilson NR, Huang ZJ, Sur M. "Response features of parvalbumin-expressing interneurons suggest precise roles for subtypes of inhibition in visual cortex." Neuron, vol. 67, no. 5, 2010, pp. 847-57. |
| Leamey CA, Van Wart A, Sur M. "Intrinsic patterning and experience-dependent mechanisms that generate eye-specific projections and binocular circuits in the visual pathway." Current opinion in neurobiology, vol. 19, no. 2, 2009, pp. 181-7. |
| Tropea D, Van Wart A, Sur M. "Molecular mechanisms of experience-dependent plasticity in visual cortex." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 364, no. 1515, 2009, pp. 341-55. |
| Lyckman AW, Horng S, Leamey CA, Tropea D, Watakabe A, Van Wart A, McCurry C, Yamamori T, Sur M. "Gene expression patterns in visual cortex during the critical period: synaptic stabilization and reversal by visual deprivation." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 105, no. 27, 2008, pp. 9409-14. |
| Van Wart A, Trimmer JS, Matthews G. "Polarized distribution of ion channels within microdomains of the axon initial segment." The Journal of Comparative Neurology, vol. 500, no. 2, 2007, pp. 339-52. |
| Van Wart A, Matthews G. "Expression of sodium channels Nav1.2 and Nav1.6 during postnatal development of the retina." Neuroscience Letters, vol. 403, no. 3, 2006, pp. 315-7. |
| Van Wart A, Matthews G. "Impaired firing and cell-specific compensation in neurons lacking nav1.6 sodium channels." Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 26, no. 27, 2006, pp. 7172-80. |
| Van Wart A, Boiko T, Trimmer JS, Matthews G. "Novel clustering of sodium channel Na(v)1.1 with ankyrin-G and neurofascin at discrete sites in the inner plexiform layer of the retina." Molecular and cellular neurosciences, vol. 28, no. 4, 2005, pp. 661-73. |
| Boiko T, Van Wart A, Caldwell JH, Levinson SR, Trimmer JS, Matthews G. "Functional specialization of the axon initial segment by isoform-specific sodium channel targeting." Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 23, no. 6, 2003, pp. 2306-13. |
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | PhD | State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 2000 | BS | Loyola College in Maryland |
| Postdoctoral Fellow | MIT, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory | 2006-2009 | Cambridge, MA, USA |
Dean's Award for Faculty Research Mentoring, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University (2021)
Member-elect of Steering Committee, AAMC Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) Group and Postdoctorate Leaders Section (2017 – 2020)
Invited Study Section Reviewer/Grant Review Panelist for NIH R25 Program and NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program, Innovations in Graduate Education (2015 - 2018)
Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Award for Innovative Institutional Partnerships in Research and Research-Focused Training, Semifinalist (2013)
Individual F32 Postdoctoral NRSA Fellow, National Eye Institute (2007-09)
Individual F31 Predoctoral NRSA Fellow, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (2004-06)
| Associate Dean for Training, Education, and Program Development. Division of Biology & Medicine, 2019- |
