Current Lab Members
Postdoctoral Fellows (click photo for CV):
Daniel C. Tanner, Ph.D. (Dan_Tanner@urmc.rochester.edu)
Postdoctoral Fellow of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Dan is focused on understanding mechanisms of oligodendrocyte death and therapeutic strategies to prevent oligodendrocyte death in Multiple Sclerosis. Other areas of interest include changes in gene expression during the progenitor to oligodendrocyte transition and the effects of changes in the relative redox status of oligodendrocyte progenitors.
Graduate Students (click photo for CV): (top)
Camelia Mihaila, M.S. (Camelia_Mihaila@urmc.rochester.edu)
Iron deficiency in the developing spinal cord
The impact of Iron Deficiency on auditory development
Dawn Lee, M.S. (Dawn_Lee@urmc.rochester.edu)
Dawn joined the Mayer-Pröschel Lab in August of 2007, the beginning of her 2nd year in the Pathology Ph.D. program. For her initial project, she is assisting Camelia Mihaila with the terminal portion of a thesis project looking at the effects of iron deficiency on the development of the embryonic mammalian brain. Dawn examines the impact on auditory response and specific behaviors seen in rats born to dams fed different iron deficient diets. Using this experience gained in this project, she hopes to establish and characterize the effects of iron deficiency in a mouse model. She also intermittently contributes to in vitro experiments under the direction of Dr. Frederick Strathmann, studying the mechanisms by which iron deficiency influence that may lead to defects in the CNS.
Technicians: (top)
Renuka Nagendra (Renuka_Nagendra@urmc.rochester.edu)
Jon Cherry
(jon_cherry@urmc.rochester.edu)