Mary Elizabeth Blue is an American neurobiologist and computational neurologist. She is an associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a research scientist in the neuroscience laboratory at Kennedy Krieger Institute.

Life

Blue completed a B.A. in biology, cum laude, from Cornell College in 1977.^[1] She earned a Ph.D. in cell biology at the UTHealth School of Public Health in 1982.^[1] Her doctoral advisor was John G. Parnavelas.^[2] Her dissertation was titled, Synapse formation and maturation in the visual cortex of the rat.^[2] Blue conducted postdoctoral research in the departments of cell biology and neuroscience under Mark E. Molliver at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine from 1982 to 1989.^[1]

Blue joined the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute at Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1989 as a research scientist.^[1] She joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1989 as an instructor in the department of neurology.^[1] Blue has served as director of the neurohistology imaging facility at the Kennedy Krieger Institute since 1990.^[1] She was promoted to assistant professor in 1992 and associate professor in the department of neurology in 2000.^[1] Blue also became an associate professor in the department of neuroscience in 2001.^[1] From 2000 to 2002, she was president of the Baltimore chapter of the Society for Neuroscience.^[1] Blue researches developmental neuroscience, systems, cognitive, and computational neuroscience, neural circuits, molecular neuroscience, and the neurobiology of disease.^[1] Blue and Ali Fatemi manage the animal surgery suite of the Intellectual developmental disabilities research center clinical translational core.^[3]

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