Author: Barbara J Paquette

Promoting Diversity in Vision Research

Ezigbobiara Umejiego, a third-year medical student at the UConn School of Medicine, working in the Mohan lab, presents his project at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology international conference in Denver, CO (May 1-4, 2022). The Mohan lab was awarded an NIH supplement through the National Eye Institute (NEI) to recruit and promote […]

A defense bunker for retinal citrullination – Mohan

A defense bunker for retinal citrullination To avert combating stress at the epicenter of phototransduction, the process by which light is converted to a neural signal in photoreceptors, neuroscience professor Royce Mohan at the UConn School of Medicine proposes that the mammalian retina may have evolved a novel defense strategy to respond to injury and […]