Sherine Awad

This study shows that Muller glia-mediated regeneration in adult zebrafish restores neuronal diversity and retinal circuit organization after injury.

This study shows that AAV-delivered Neurog2-9SA converts Muller glia into retinal neurons in degenerative models, integrating into circuits and exhibiting neuronal properties.

This study shows that viral-mediated Oct4 overexpression and Notch inhibition together induce neurogenic competence in mammalian Muller glia, enabling transdifferentiation into bipolar neurons.

The paper identifies chromatin loop rewiring in adipogenesis and discovers novel regulators and gene-trait associations relevant to obesity and diabetes.

This paper develops a chemically-defined protocol to differentiate human pluripotent stem cells into brown adipocytes, capturing developmental stages and functional properties of human brown adipose tissue.

The paper evaluates metagenome assemblers on a mock community with 64 genomes, finding MEGAHIT performs best and recovers more strain variants.