2025

January 2025

FUNDED!!! - Retina Research Foundation grant!

    The lab was awarded an RRF research grant renewal to work on the interaction between pcdh15b, cdhr1a and the function of calyces processes in zebrafish photoreceptors.

New student in the lab:

Welcome to Cooper Kincaid, our newest BIO395 undergraduate researcher. Cooper will be working with Sejuti on investigating mechanisms governing optic fissure fusion. Glad to have you onboard!

February 2025

NEW Lab publication:

Andrew Prendergast, Mary Sheppard, Jakub Konrad Famulski, Stefania Nicoli, Sandip Mukherjee, Patrick Sips and John Elefteriadess. Modeling Thoracic Aortic Genetic Variants in the Zebrafish: Useful for Predicting Clinical Pathogenicity? Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, Cardiovascular Genetics and Systems Medicine.

    This review is a collaboration between three individual research sites that have employed the zebrafish model to study and translate clinical findings for thoracic aerobic aneurysm (TAA) personalized medicine approaches. The review summarizes critical findings and offers perspectives on the potential for zebrafish based personalized medicine for treatment of TAA.

Sejuti completes her PhD qualifying exam.

-Congrats Sejuti!

April 2025

FUNDED!!!  - CHARGE foundation research grant.

    The lab was awarded funding from the CHARGE foundation to study the impacts of chd7 durign optic fissure fusion using our zebrafish single cell RNA sequencing approach.

Joy Lefevers, a KYINBRE program student joins the lab for the summer.

Joy is partnering with Meet to examine retinal phenotypes in our newly generated prom1b loss of function mutant line.