Dr. Mariah Meyer

Dr. Meyer is a Patent Agent in the firm’s Life Sciences group. She leverages her technical training in biology and neuroscience to assist life science clients with a variety of intellectual property matters, including drafting and prosecution of patent applications and conducting freedom-to-operate, patentability, and due diligence analyses. Dr. Meyer works with clients spanning several disciplines, including e.g., gene, tRNA, antibody, small molecule, and cell and organoid therapies; diagnostics, and sequencing and imaging technologies.

Dr. Meyer has over a decade of research experience in the life sciences, and her technical expertise includes viral vectors and gene editing techniques, as applied to systems, cellular, behavioral, and translational neuroscience.

Dr. Meyer’s doctoral research focused on the role of oxytocinergic neurons in regulating social behavior and the associated patterns of neuronal activity in the hippocampus. To this end, she employed viral vector-mediated chemogenetics, optogenetics, and gene editing approaches in pre-clinical transgenic mouse models.

As a postdoctoral scholar at Northwestern University, Dr. Meyer studied the neurobiological bases of hippocampal function through the meta-analysis of proteomic, anatomic, and neuroelectric data during hippocampus-dependent behaviors.

Dr. Meyer has presented her academic work at international and domestic conferences, such as e.g., the Society for Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society, and Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies; and she has authored and co-authored original research articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Communications, Neuropsychopharmacology, Learning and Memory, Brain Structure and Function, and Current Opinion in Neurobiology.

Before joining Goodwin in 2022, Dr. Meyer worked at a boutique patent law firm in Boston.

Fellow, National Institute of Mental Health Neurobiology of Information Storage Training Program

Fellow, Kauffman Entrepreneurial Fellowship

Fellow, Dr. John N. Nicholson Fellowship

• Ren, Lynn Y., et al. "Stress-induced changes of the cholinergic circuitry promote retrieval-based generalization of aversive memories." Molecular Psychiatry (2022): 1-11.
• Ren, Lynn Y., et al. "Stress-induced generalization of negative memories is mediated by an extended hippocampal circuit." Neuropsychopharmacology 47.2 (2022): 516-523.
• Meyer, Mariah AA, and Jelena Radulovic. "Functional differentiation in the transverse plane of the hippocampus: An update on activity segregation within the DG and CA3 subfields." Brain Research Bulletin 171 (2021): 35-43.
• Meyer, Mariah AA, et al. "Stress-related memories disrupt sociability and associated patterning of hippocampal activity: a role of hilar oxytocin receptor-positive interneurons." Translational psychiatry 10.1 (2020): 1-14.
• Han, Yuan, et al. "Excitatory VTA to DH projections provide a valence signal to memory circuits." Nature communications 11.1 (2020): 1-14.
• Heilbronner, Sarah R., et al. "How do cortico-striatal projections impact on downstream pallidal circuitry?." Brain Structure and Function 223.6 (2018): 2809-2821.
• Radulovic, Jelena, Vladimir Jovasevic, and Mariah AA Meyer. "Neurobiological mechanisms of state-dependent learning." Current opinion in neurobiology 45 (2017): 92-98.
• Meyer, Mariah AA, et al. "Neurobiological correlates of state-dependent context fear." Learning & Memory 24.9 (2017): 385-391.
• Radulovic, J., et al. "miR-33 regulates GABAergic mechanisms of fear-inducing memories." European Neuropsychopharmacology 27 (2017): S535.