Anne B WallsAnne B. Walls, Ph.D., is a postdoc researcher at the University of Copenhagen. She obtained her M.Sc. in Pharmacy from the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006 and her Ph.D. from the Norwegian University of Sciene and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, in 2010. Her interest in brain energy metabolism and the cellular interplay between astrocytes and neurons was founded in her thesis work conducted in the lab of Prof. Helle S. Waagepetersen and Prof. Arne Schousboe, where she studied the functional importance of brain glycogen. This work continued during her Ph.D. studies in the lab of Prof. Ursula Sonnewald and, at the same time, a special interest in the functional and metabolic importance of the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA in relation to seizure activity was established. In 2010 she obtained an individual postdoc grant from the Danish Medical Research Council to study the importance of glycogen as energy substrate and precursor for GABAergic signaling and, in 2014, she received another individual postdoc grant from The Lundbeck Foundation to investigate the role of the enzyme glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) for ammonia fixation in the brain during hyperammonemia and hepatic encephalopathy. Since 2013, she has served as an editorial board member for Metabolic Brain Disease and, together with Prof. Arne Schousboe, has been a guest editor on a special issue of Metabolic Brain Disease on Brain Glycogen: Emergency Fuel and Dynamic Function in Neurotransmission, published in February 2015. Read More Read Less