Advanced Concentration

Neuroscience

Mentor

Kevin K. W. Wang, Ph.D. 

Department

Neuroscience

Enrolled 

August 2003

Lab Room

Lab Phone

E-mail

tanker@ufl.edu

Education

B.S., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kundnani College of Pharmacy (India)

Dissertation Research

Role of Autophagy in Neuronal Injury Models of the CNS

Publications

Zhang Z, Ottens AK, Sadasivan S, Kobeissy FH, Fang T, Hayes RL, Wang KK. Calpain-mediated collapsin response mediator protein-1, -2, and -4 proteolysis after neurotoxic and traumatic brain injury. J Neurotrauma. 2007 Mar;24(3):460-72.  abstract

Sadasivan S, Waghray A, Larner SF, Dunn WA Jr, Hayes RL, Wang KK.  Amino acid starvation induced autophagic cell death in PC-12 cells: Evidence for activation of caspase-3 but not calpain-1. Apoptosis. 2006 Sep;11(9):1573-82.   abstract