{"id":10814,"date":"2017-06-07T01:53:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T01:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission-new\/?p=10814"},"modified":"2018-01-22T19:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T19:30:41","slug":"heart-behind-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/heart-behind-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The heart behind her science"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10858\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10858\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10858\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/Nicole-Baganz-head-shot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Nicole Baganz\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/Nicole-Baganz-head-shot-1.jpg 667w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/Nicole-Baganz-head-shot-1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/Nicole-Baganz-head-shot-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10858\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Baganz, Ph.D. \u201909, works as a research assistant professor in biomedical science at Florida Atlantic University. She\u2019s studying how changes in the immune system can have a depressive effect on mood and is helping create the university\u2019s first Brain Institute.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nicole Baganz was always interested in science, receiving her first microscope in second grade. It\u2019s just that she wasn\u2019t always that good at it, she said.<\/p>\n<p>So she embraced the arts, and grew up playing the piano. She studied dance for 20 years. A teacher told her to forget her pursuit of the sciences and study English instead. That\u2019s about the time she decided her future, and it was going to be in front of a microscope.<\/p>\n<p>Years later, she\u2019s embraced both passions in a journey that has taken her to the hospitals of China, the research labs of Vanderbilt, the rhythms of music and the depths of the human brain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never saw my life taking this course,\u201d she said. \u201cThe more we can experience in life, the more enriching our lives are and our communities are. Every single person we meet has a story to tell that you can learn from. If we stay in a bubble, we\u2019re not going to learn all that we can and make ourselves better human beings. Life is an adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Growing up, though, Nicole was the reserved and safe one in her family. Her sister was the adventurer, the risk taker. But drug addiction and depression took their toll; her sister died of an overdose as Nicole was finishing her undergraduate degree in biology at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire.<\/p>\n<p>Nicole\u2019s life veered sharply. She decided to move back home to be near her grieving family. While there, she studied massage therapy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to work with people instead of being in a lab, which is funny considering where I am now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Then a flier from Midwest College of Oriental Medicine appeared on her desk and piqued her interest. It advertised a master\u2019s degree in traditional Chinese medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I taught anatomy and physiology in two different massage therapy schools and a nursing college to put myself through school, and that\u2019s when I realized I really loved teaching physiology and I was good at it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>After getting her master\u2019s degree in traditional Chinese medicine, becoming nationally certified in acupuncture and Oriental medicine and traveling to China for an internship, she decided to pursue a Ph.D. in physiology, with an emphasis in neuroscience at UT Health San Antonio. She wanted to unlock the mysteries of the brain that lead to the mood disorders that devastated her sister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith my sister\u2019s story, I specifically was interested in neuroscience,\u201d she said. \u201cThey accepted me not as a Ph.D. student, but as a master\u2019s student because my background was very nontraditional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10853\" src=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/brain-moods-2-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/brain-moods-2-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/brain-moods-2-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/brain-moods-2-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/magazines.uthscsa.edu\/mission\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2017\/06\/brain-moods-2.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>By the end of her first semester, she had proven her high school teacher wrong. Her grades put her at the top of her class, and she was moved into the Ph.D. program. Hers was the inaugural class in the neuroscience program. She graduated in 2009 as the highest-ranking student in her class, receiving the Armand J. Guarino Award for Academic Excellence in Doctoral Studies.<\/p>\n<p>After completing a year as a postdoctoral fellow at UT Health San Antonio, she moved to Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked as a postdoc and later became a research instructor. It was in Music City\u2014appropriately\u2014that her love for the arts professionally collided with her love of science.<\/p>\n<p>She began studying how music affects the brain, and organized Nashville\u2019s first Music and Mind seminar that brought together musicians and scientists on one stage. Her attempts to bring neuroscience into the mainstream didn\u2019t stop there. She organized walks to support the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and spoke to groups throughout the city about the brain. She shared her family\u2019s story about mental illness and her personal quest to uncover the biology behind it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I wasn\u2019t doing experiments in the lab, I was talking to people outside of the lab about the brain. I thought we shouldn\u2019t be afraid to tell our stories anymore,\u201d she said. \u201cThe more I went out to the community and started talking, the more they would talk back and they started caring about the brain. And I was shocked at how little people knew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her goal: Erase the stigma of depression and other mood disorders by showing there\u2019s a biological reason for the behavioral symptoms. To do that, she said, requires breaching the walls of academia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a responsibility to our community to share the information that we know and keep our communities healthy and knowledgeable,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But so much of science is black and white, with no room for emotion, her critics said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have had scientists tell me that I shouldn\u2019t be doing my science because I have a reason to do it, and I thought that was the weirdest logic I have ever heard,\u201d she said. \u201cThey said I shouldn\u2019t be studying mood disorders because of my sister. But what is going to keep me going every day? I need to do it. So I think it\u2019s a good thing to have heart behind your science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She took that passion with her to Florida Atlantic University, where she now works as a research assistant professor in biomedical science. She\u2019s studying how changes in the immune system can have a depressive effect on mood. She is also helping create the university\u2019s first Brain Institute, a research facility that will offer master\u2019s and Ph.D. programs in neuroscience. As the director of community engagement and programming for the Brain Institute, she will ensure community outreach also will play an important role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeuroscience is growing by orders of magnitude every day, and I\u2019m excited that hopefully we will totally erase the stigma of mental illness soon,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The arts and sciences have blended to make Nicole a better scientist, she said. She thinks differently, asks different questions. Her nontraditional path has added new dimensions to her work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen my experiments work, I dance in the lab,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes she imagines what her life would be like if she had become a dancer instead of a scientist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut then when the experiments work, and we find another potential target for treatments for mental illness,\u201d she said, \u201cI am reminded why I chose the science road.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole Baganz, Ph.D. \u201909, was always interested in science, receiving her first microscope in second grade. It\u2019s just that she wasn\u2019t always that good at it, she said. 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