Advanced Concentration

Neuroscience

Mentor

John M. Petitto, M.D.

Department

Neuroscience

Enrolled 

August 2003

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Lab Phone

E-mail

gha@ufl.edu

Education

B.A., Biology/Neuroscience, Boston University

Dissertation Research

Immunodeficiency and Neuronal Function: From Motor to Limbic Neurons

Publications

Ha GK, Huang Z, Streit WJ, Petitto JM. Endogenous T lymphocytes and microglial reactivity in the axotomized facial motor nucleus of mice: Effect of genetic background and the RAG2 gene.  J Neuroimmunol. 2006 Mar;172(1-2):1-8. Epub 2006 Jan 10. abstract

Beck RD Jr, Wasserfall C, Ha GK, Cushman JD, Huang Z, Atkinson MA, Petitto JM.  Changes in hippocampal IL-15, related cytokines, and neurogenesis in IL-2 deficient mice. Brain Res. 2005 Apr 18;1041(2):223-30. abstract

Beck RD Jr, King MA, Ha GK, Cushman JD, Huang Z, Petitto JM. IL-2 deficiency results in altered septal and hippocampal cytoarchitecture: relation to development and neurotrophins. J Neuroimmunol. 2005 Mar;160(1-2):146-53. Epub 2004 Dec 23. abstract

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