Ashiti Damania from Dr. Trakhtenberg’s lab won University Scholar Award  UConn undergraduate student, Ashiti Damania, who did her honors thesis and was a research assistant in Dr. Trakhtenberg’s lab over the past 3 years through graduation this Spring, won a prestigious University Scholar Award and co-authored 4 published research articles.   

Matthew Frost, a graduate student in Dr. Trakhtenberg’s lab, presented a poster on Neuroprotection and Regeneration of Optic Nerve Axons at the Vision Injury Research Forum (VIRF), co-hosted by The Department of Defense (DOD), Vision Research Program (VRP), and Vision Center of Excellence (VCE), and won Lightning Talk 2nd place award at the 8th Military Vision Symposium […]

Congratulations to Marc Benoit for successfully defending his PhD thesis. Dr. Benoit has conducted his thesis study in the Yan lab by investigating the cell autonomous and non-autonomous role of the C-terminal fragment of CX3CL1 by utilizing unbiased single nucleus RNA sequencing approach.  Marc has also published his study on identifying defects in maturation of […]