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Current members:
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Ning Gu
Project: Mechanisms underlying spinal cord plasticity
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Mehdi Hooshmandi
Project: The role of eIF2a in Fragile X Syndrome
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Weihua Cai
Project: Role of the gut microbiome in the pathophysiology of pain and other symptoms of fibromyalgia
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Calvin Wong
Project: mTORC2-mediated structural plasticity in the pain pathway
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Kevin Lister
Project: Spinal cell-type-specific translational control mechanisms in the development of chronic pain
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Nicole Brown
Project: Polymorphisms in APOE gene in chronic pain
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David Ho-Tieng
Project: Integrated stress response in depression
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Jonathan Fan
Project: Transcriptional and functional heterogeneity of spinal projection neurons
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Vibhu Kumar
Co-supervised by Yoram Shir
Project: Gut microbiome in chronic pain
Past members
- Julia D'Adamo (NSCI 396), Winter 2017
- Sean Tabarah (NSCI 396), Winter 2017
- Lee Meluban (COGS 444), Winter 2018
- Shelly Yin, Fall 2017 - Winter 2018
- Sonali Uttam, MSc, 2017-2019
- Jordyn Heal, volunteer, 2018-2019
- Neil Wu, Research assistant, 2019-2020
- Laura Neagu-Lund, Summer research student, 2019-2020
- Mariam Latif (ANAT 396), 2019 - 2020.
- Shannon Tansley, PhD, 2017-2022