Hello Everyone! I am Erika Deppenschmidt, but you can call me Erika Depp since my last name is awfully long and sometimes I cannot remember it all either. I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology program at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. I recently joined the Colognato lab Read More…
Month: September 2018
Andrea Arreguin
7th Year MSTP, 5th Year Neuroscience Graduate Student Andrea received a B.A. in Biology with a specialization in neurobiology from Boston University. Andrea completed an internship in Dr. Costantino Iadecola’s neurovascular and neurodegeneration lab at Weill Cornell Medical College. Andrea worked on understanding alterations in pericytes in mice expressing the Swedish mutation of the amyloid precursor protein, Read More…
Mohan Narine
3rd Year Neuroscience Graduate Student Mo received a biomedical engineering degree from Stony Brook University in 2011. His sophomore year he worked as a research associate at Center for Biotechnology where his project focused on understanding the function of the Cby1 gene. Mo’s engineering background afforded him the opportunity to secure a position upon graduation Read More…
Biography
We study a specialized glial cell, the oligodendrocyte, which myelinates axons in the brain and spinal cord. The laminin family of adhesion proteins are good candidates to regulate oligodendrocytes and the process of myelination: brain defects, including abnormal myelination, occur in the absence of normal laminin signaling. Our work has demonstrated that adhesive interactions with Read More…