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Walter Lukiw, PhD
School of Medicine
Ophthalmology / Neuroscience Center of Excellence

Primary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	aging, brain aging, AD, AMD, gene expression, inflammation, molecular vision, neuroinflammation, prion disease, senescence, small RNAs
Secondary Research / Clinical / Teaching Interests:
	amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), bipolar disorder, fatal familial insomnia (FFI), sporadic Creutzfeld-Jakob disease (sCJD), glioma, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), Parkinson's disease (PD), GSS syndrome, schizophrenia

Unique Techniques Used or Developed:
	bioinformatics, DNA sequencing, gel shift assay, primary cell culture, RNA sequencing, human brain cells in primary culture, post mortem brain tissues, tissue biopsy
Unique Equipment Used:
	Aglemt Bioanalyzer gene expression analysis, GeneChips, DNA array analysis, micro RNA (miRNA) array analysis, RT-PCR, Northern and Western analysis, gel-shift assay Incubator 1 PCR system
Keywords Associated with Work:
	Age-related macular degeneration (AMD, ARMD), aluminum neurotoxicity, Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyloid, beta-amyloid peptides (Abeta42), autism spectrum disorder (AD), bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), human brain cell culture, chromatin structure,

Last Updated: 02/16/2019