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
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…
Himanshu Dissertation Defense
“Dystroglycan is a Novel and Context-Dependent Regulator of Notch in the Postnatal Subventricular Zone” Dissertation Presented by Himanshu Sharma Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology Congratulations Dr. Himanshu Sharma!