Mo, Erika and Ashley (pictured here) were able to attend the Pharmacology Holiday Party this past Thursday evening in Port Jefferson, NY. It was a great night to be had by all! The Colognato Lab wants to wish you all a great holiday season and an awesome start to the New Year! đŸ˜€
Chris in the news
MS student Chris Infantino was featured in an article on the Stony Brook Webpage. Cool!
Congrats Andrea!
A very big congratulations to Andrea on winning the Hispanic Heritage Month Student Leadership Award!
Andrea at the AAO annual meeting
Andrea at the American Academy of Ophthalmology’s annual meeting in Chicago!
Andrea’s MSTP Poster
Graduate student Andrea presenting her poster at the MSTP Retreat.
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
4th Year Medical Student (MD/PhD) Andrea earned a B.A. in Biology with a specialization in Neurobiology from Boston University before matriculating into Stony Brook University School of Medicine’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). For her dissertation, she investigated the role of the protein dystrophin in oligodendrocyte development and successfully defended her thesis in March 2023. 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…