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Upstate Medical university MD/PhD Program

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Ivalya Geneva Ivayla Geneva
PhD (2nd year)
genevai@upstate.edu

Department: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Advisor: P. Calvert, PhD

Research Interests:

Understanding the active-transport-based trafficking of proteins inside rod
photoreceptors. In particular kinesin- and dynein-driven Intraflagellar
Ttransport between the inner and outer segments of living rods is being
studied using confocal and multiphoton fluorescence microscopy.