Jennifer Bergeron , MD

Assistant Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Medicine

Classification:

Faculty

• MD, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 2018

Snow, S., Bacon, E., Bergeron, J., Katzman, D., Wilhelm, A., Lewis, O., Syangtan D., Calkins, A., Archambault, L., Anacker,M., Schlax, P.J. (2020). Transcript decay mediated by RNase III in Borrelia burgdorferi. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 529(2), 386-391. DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.05.201.

Archambault, L., Borchert, J.S., Bergeron, J.M., Snow, S.M., & Schlax, P.J. (2013). Measurements of mRNA Degradation in Borrelia burgdorferi. Journal of Bacteriology, 195(21), 4879-4887. DOI: 10.1128/JB.00659-13

Fellow Research Project 2022 – Present
     Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Home Dialysis Unit
     “Predicting technique failure in peritoneal dialysis”

Resident Research Project - Principle Investigator  2019 - Present
     The University of Vermont Medical Center, Department of Nephrology                         
     “Validity and utility of mortality risk prediction tools in the Vermont dialysis population”
      Presented poster at the university’s research symposium and the regional meeting below

Senior Thesis, Full Year 2013 - 2014
     Bates College Biological Chemistry Department
     “mRNA processing in the alpha and rpsO-pnp operon of Borrelia burgdorferi is mediated by RNase III”
     Defended thesis to Biological Chemistry Department

Research Assistant                                                                                                                           
     Maine Medical Center Research Institute - Summer 2015
     “Caveolin 3 mutations and regulation of the insulin receptor in lipotoxic cardiomyopathy”
     Presented abstract at the institute’s summer research symposium

Bates College Biological Chemistry Department Summer 2013
      “mRNA degradation in Borrelia burgdorferi”
       Presented poster at the college’s summer research symposium and at regional meeting below

Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Summer 2012
     “Characterization of neuromodulators in Helisoma trivolvis”
      Poster accepted at Society for Neuroscience National Meeting 2013

Bates College Biological Chemistry Department Summer 2011
     “Translational Regulation in Diverse Prokaryotes"
      Presented poster at the college’s summer research symposium

Medical Specialties

• Nephrology/Kidney Disease

Special Training

• Residency, Internal Medicine
  The University of Vermont Medical Center, Burlington VT, 2021
• Fellowship, Nephrology
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville TN