Ophthalmology in plain sight for Ezii

Ophthalmology in plain sight for Ezii Ezigbobiara Umejiego (fondly known as Ezii) from the UConn School of Medicine took a gap year to earn his master’s in public health. Aspiring to become an Ophthalmologist, Ezii combined his studies with research in the Mohan lab in the neuroscience department to investigate mechanisms of ocular injury from […]

Mohan lab illuminates novel target for AMD

Sarah Palko, neuroscience graduate student, is studying age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the Mohan lab. Their work has shown in multiple models of retinal degeneration that the enzyme peptidyl arginine deiminase-4 (PAD4) drives a pathological process known as citrullination (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121875119). Sarah has now extended her study by validating a critical role for PAD4 driven hypercitrullination […]

Levine lab presents new research at the 2022 SFN meeting

Tiwanna Robinson, Marwa Elamin, and Deepa Anjan Kumar from the Levine lab presented new research at the Society for Neuroscience meeting that was highlighted in Spectrum.  Please see link to article below: https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/single-gene-insufficient-to-account-for-dup15q-angelman-traits/?fbclid=IwAR0O6bjeEfSgvCRMAhsYBcJ0VuLpymphINOjD0wYuTLgbCWDm8N6RB2deqE