Dr. Aldinger is a Principal Investigator in the Center for Integrative Brain Research at Seattle Children’s Research Institute and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetic Medicine at the University of Washington. She received a BA in biology from Brandeis University, an ALM in psychology from Harvard University, and a PhD in neurobiology from the University of Chicago. Dr. Aldinger has over 20 years of research experience applying neuroscience and genomics techniques to understand the impact of genetic changes to the development of brain structures and functions that are relevant to neurodevelopment disorders. She is also the mom of a son with a rare genetic disease.