Congratulations Mo!

Congratulations to Mo who was recently accepted into Stony Brook University’s Scholar in Biomedical Science (SBMS) program. The purpose of this program is to engage Ph.D. students in translational research. His current research now focuses on producing viable repair therapies for Multiple Sclerosis. His mentor for the SBMS program is Dr. Louis Manganas, M.D., Ph.D. He plans Read More…

Erika Deppenschmidt

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…

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…