Elizabeth Cooke focuses her practice on patent drafting and prosecution, with an emphasis on neuroscience and genetics.
Prior to joining Morrison Foerster, Elizabeth was a graduate researcher at the UCLA Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology, where she studied the role of the basal ganglia in sensorimotor song learning in zebra finches. Her research included using single-cell RNA sequencing experiments to characterize neuronal and glial cell types in zebra finch basal ganglia. As a research technician at the University of California, San Francisco’s Physiology Department, Elizabeth studied mammalian thermoregulatory physiology and behaviors. In this role, she carried out a variety of experiments involving Cre mouse lines, including molecular cloning using CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology, stereotaxic targeting of viral vectors to specific hypothalamic neuronal cell populations, and assays measuring the effects of optogenetic stimulation of neuronal populations on thermoregulatory physiology and behaviors.