Nervous System
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In the Lab The broad goal of the Avraham research lab is to decipher the mechanisms dictating the diversity of peripheral glial cells to achieve a better understanding of their role in the context of disease and injury. The Avraham research team is particularly interested in peripheral glia that reside in different locations throughout the…
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Post Doc Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, NY 2018 Ph.D. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY 2009 Masters University of Zürich, Department of Zoology, Switzerland 2004 In the Lab The peripheral nervous system (PNS) comprises all nerves outside the brain and spinal cord and is essential for innervation and regulation of all organs…
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In the Lab Enhancers, one type of non-coding DNA regulatory element facilitating proper spatiotemporal gene expression, are fundamental to our understanding of development and disease. Majority of genetic variants, including single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) and copy number variants (CNVs) associated with disease traits, reside in/cover enhancers. It is imperative to improve our basic understanding of enhancer…
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In the Lab The Anantharam lab research focuses on neurodegenerative diseases and neurotoxicology, specifically, mitochondrial dysfunction, oxidative stress, protein aggregation, neuroinflammation and apoptosis in neurotoxicity models of Parkinson’s and prion diseases. Dr. Anantharam’s primary focus is translational research, and has extensive experience with the science of developing neuroprotective drugs and testing their efficacy in both…
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In the Lab Reproductive challenges in both human and livestock populations are of significant concern and are often a direct result of abnormal germ cell (oocyte and sperm) development. Aberrant germ cell development significantly affects human fertility, is the leading cause of early pregnancy loss and results in birth defects such as Down’s syndrome and…
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Stice Bio Dr. Steve Stice is a University of Georgia, DW Brooks Distinguished Professor and Director of the Regenerative Bioscience Center, who holds a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar endowed chair, and is CSO of Aruna Biomedical Inc. He has over 35 years of research and development experience in biotechnology and is a co-founder of…
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In the Lab After injury, an organism must mount a series of responses to minimize and — if possible — repair damage. Some organisms regenerate poorly, while others (including humans) regenerate to differing degrees depending on the tissue that is damaged. Rarely, organisms possess the ability to repair or regenerate any missing tissue. Organisms with…
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Bio Dr. P. S. MohanKumar was born in Tamil Nadu, India. He received his veterinary degree from the Madras Veterinary College, Chennai, India. He went onto pursue a PhD degree in neuroendocrinology at Kansas State University following it with a stint of postdoctoral fellowship at University of Kansas Medical Center. After a brief period as…
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Ph.D., Beijing Medical University (currently Peking University) M.Sc., Henan Medical University (currently Zhengzhou University) M.D., Henan Medical University (currently Zhengzhou University) In the Lab The sense of taste informs our nutritive choices, which are essential for life and quality of life. In mammals, taste bud cells in lingual taste papillae transduce chemical stimuli into neural…
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Post-doctoral fellow University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 2008 Ph.D. University of North Texas Health Science Center 2005 B.S / M.S. Kyungpook National University 1999 In the Lab Lee’s research focuses on understanding how inflammation influences neurodegenerative diseases. Chronic inflammation in the CNS has been strongly implicated in the pathophysiology of many neurodegenerative diseases. Microglia…