| Feb 26, 2025 | I’m happy to announnce that this summer I’ll be joining the Regeneron Genetics Center as a PhD intern with the Neuroscience and Ophthalmology Therapeutic Area Genetics team. I’ll be working on connecting GWAS hits to drug response mechanisms in Tahoe-100M perturbation study. This project will address a fundamental question in precision medicine regarding how germline genetic variants identified through population-level GWAS studies manifest their effects at the cellular level, and how the effects interact with pharmacological interventions. Super excited to work on this with Ernst Mayerhofer and Sahar Gelfman. |
| Sep 12, 2024 | I gave a talk at the annual meeting of Synapses Under Stress (RU 2795), hosted by Prof. Jürgen Klingauf at the University of Münster, Germany. My talk was titled Alzheimer’s Disease-associated Intracellular Calcium Dyshomeostasis Leads to Impaired Presynaptic Function, and I shared key results from the initial phases of my thesis. This work focuses on the cellular level disruptions associated with Ca2+ signaling in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD), including the effects of disrupted Ca2+ signaling on neurotransmitter release and synaptic plasticity in an in-silico model of FAD, and how Aβ-mediated cation pore formation modulates presynaptic Ca2+ dynamics and the downstream effects on exocytosis in-silico. |
| Aug 26, 2024 | I’m honored to be awarded the Trainee Professional Development Award (TPDA) by the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) for SfN24. This award is given to graduate students demonstrating scientific merit and excellence in research and will support my attendance at the annual SfN meeting in Chicago this year. I’ll be presenting a poster on our lab’s recent work at the Early Career Poster Session on Saturday, October 5 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM and at the Alzheimer’s Disease: Genetics poster session PSTR446 (board Number: C59) on Wednesday, October 9 fro 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM. If you’re attending SfN24, I’d be delighted to connect and discuss our work   . This wouldn’t have been possible without the invaluable guidance and support of my PI, Prof. Ghanim Ullah, at the University of South Florida. |
| Jun 30, 2024 | The lab will be attending SfN24 in Chicago this year! I’ll be presenting a poster on our lab’s recent work at the Alzheimer’s Disease: Genetics poster session PSTR446 (board Number: C59) on Wednesday, October 9 fro 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM. Please stop by, I’d be happy to connect and discuss potential collaborations if you’ll be there . |
| Nov 07, 2015 | A long announcement with details |