Rate My Professor Alicia Ebert

Alicia Ebert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at the University of Vermont, a position she has held since 2018 after serving as Assistant Professor from 2012 to 2018. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the Graduate College, appointed in May 2023, and previously directed the Undergraduate Neuroscience Program starting in 2019. Ebert earned a B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wyoming in 2002, with minors in Chemistry and Psychology. She obtained her Ph.D. in Zoology from Colorado State University in 2008 through the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Neurosciences program, where her dissertation, supervised by Dr. Deborah Garrity, examined new roles for calcium channel beta subunits in zebrafish development. Her postdoctoral training occurred at the University of Calgary in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy from 2008 to 2012 under Dr. Sarah McFarlane. Earlier, she worked as a Research Assistant in the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Wyoming (2001-2002) and in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (2002-2003).