Students Profiles

Ivayla Geneva
PhD (4th 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.

Elected Offices:

Eve is the President of the American Physician Scientists Association. This is a national organization dedicated to the needs of future physician scientists.
In addition, Eve is also VP for Graduate Studies - Upstate Student Government

Yung Lyou

"In addition to my primary investigator, I've had several other mentors," said Yung Lyou, who studies genetic eye disorders. "By collaborating with Frank Middleton, PhD, our Microarray core facility director, I've been able to run screens on thousands of genes at one time. That's interdisciplinary. I was also able to take a two-week course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, so that I could learn other techniques to help me in my research here."