Ryan Betters, PhD

ASERT Fellow 

University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

Department of Neurosciences

rbetters@salud.unm.edu 

Education

• ASERT Postdoctoral Fellow, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, 2025 – Present
• PhD, Neuroscience, University of Iowa, 2023
• BA, Biology with minor in Neuroscience, Grinnell College, 2018

Teaching

• Adjunct Faculty, Ivy Tech Community College Lafayette, 2023-2024

Courses Taught

• General Biology I with Lab, 8- and 16-week variants

Research Mentors

• Erin Milligan
  • Professor, Dept. Neurosciences, UNM HSC
• Shahani Noor
  • Assistant Professor, Dept. Neurosciences, UNM HSC

Select Publications

Mazon, C., Betters, R., Salmeron-Ceballos, G., Tomaziefski, A., Coffman, C., Simonson, R., & Tunc-Ozcan, E. (2026). Chronic stress alters neurotransmitter co-expression and disrupts context discrimination in a sex-dependent manner. IBRO Neuroscience Reports.

Betters, R. K., Luhmann, E., Gottschalk, A. C., Xu, Z., Shin, M. R., Ptak, C. P., Fiock, K. L., Radoshevich, L. C., & Hefti, M. (2023). Characterization of the tau interactome in human brain reveals isoform-dependent interaction with 14-3-3 family proteins. eNeuro, 10(3).

Fiock, K. L., Betters, R. K., & Hefti, M. M. (2023). Thioflavin S staining and amyloid formation are unique to mixed tauopathies. Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry, 71(2), 73-86.