2021-2022:
Masters Students:
Daljit Girn and Afrin Pattani collected and analyzed data on cannabinoid and myosin II effects on craniofacial and eye morphogenesis in Xenopus tadpoles.
2020-2021:
Medical Students:
Austin Lui and Celeste Chong analyzed data and helped write our publication on cannabinoid signaling in axon development.
Jessica Sieminski and Chi Pham collected and analyzed data on cannabinoid signaling on neural tube formation in chicken and frog embryos.
2019-2020:
Masters students:
Valerie Lew and Sukaynah Khetani worked on a mathematical analysis of growth cone contours. They are now attending medical school at TU-CA.
Medical Students:
Sophia Dao: Sophia helped establish an electroporation set up in the lab to express morpholinos and DNA plasmids in single retinal ganglion cells in Xenopus tadpoles.
2018-2019:
Masters Students:
Sophia Dao: Sophia wrote a paper on our microinjection and imaging techniques for the Journal of Visualized Experiments, now published. She is attending medical school at TU-CA.
Kenton Jones: Kenton analyzed data on the the role of the cannabinoid signaling in optic axonal pathfinding and growth cone filopodia. He is attending medical school at Touro now.
Medical Students:
Darryl Chiu: Darryl helped develop new K+ channel constructs and molecular tools for us to use in future experiments.
2017-2018:
Masters Students:
John Lim and Kenneth Hanton collected and analyzed data on cannabinoid signaling in axon development. They are both attending medical school now.
Prior to 2017
Tae Gun Jin - Tae Gun expressed APC N-term and central domain mutant constructs and analyzed the resulting optic axonal arbor phenotypes in vivo. We published a paper on his results in Brain Research. Taegun has done research at Northwestern University on stem cell treatments for nerve regeneration following injury to the peripheral nervous system.
Amar Bains- Amar helped initiate a collaborative project with Dr. Alan Miller at Touro examining the interactions with K+ channels and beta-catenin on optic axon development.
Sabrina Wedee, Katie Farley, Michelle Burke - They began our study of the role of cannabinoid signaling in regulation of optic axon pathfinding and growth cone filopodia.
Anokh Sohal - For his master's thesis, Anokh performed a detailed quantitative analysis of a timelapse video of growth cone motility in the optic tract of a living brain preparation. Click here for a link to our book chapter on his work.
Atif Saleem - Atif applied statistical techniques to describe the pattern of dendritic spines found in brain sections of widltype and Alzheimer's mutant mice models. This is a collaboration with the Buck Institute and San Jose State University. Atif is now a Pathology Resident at Stanford University Medical Center.
Avik Patel - Avik developed a simulation of optic axon branching dynamics using the visual arts programming language, Processing (developed at the MIT Media Lab). He incorporated user modifiable factors such as branch number, angle and width, as well as branch thickness and length. Please see our paper in the Journal of Biocommunication. Avik is now a resident in Radiology.