Students Profiles

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.

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."