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Congratulations to Jarrod Harmon and Meredith Juncker, you did it!

Two graduate students from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology received their degrees at the Pre-commencement Ceremony held May 10, 2021. Jarrod's thesis title is: Adaptive Epigenetics for Retinal Protection:  Effects of Sex and Strain on Resting, Injured, and Injury-Resilient Phenotypes. Meredith's thesis title is: ISG15 Attenuates Mitophagy in Ataxia Telangiectasia.

Congratulations to Jeff Gidday, PhD, and Shyamal Desai, PhD, the mentors for Drs. Harmon and Juncker respectively.

 

_{(Drs. Jeff Gidday, Jarrod Harmon, Shyamal Desai, Meredith Juncker, Hari Koul)}

_{(Drs. Hari Koul, Meredith Juncker, Jarrod Harmon, Shyamal Desai)}

_{(Drs. Hari Koul, Meredith Juncker, Shyamal Desai)}

 

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LSU Health New Orleans Study Discovers Source of Zika Neurodevelopmental Defects

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