Researcher of the Week: Joel Tyson

Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:02:22 -0400

Meet Joel,

He is a Biochemical Engineering major, a JHU Researcher and a presenter at URCAD 2016. Joel also gave a presentation at Johns Hopkins’ Annual Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and gave a presentation to the Hopkins Inistitute of NanoBiotechnology.

His research focused Parkinson's disease; in this study the most toxic fibrillar form of misfolded α-syn, pre-formed fibrils (α-syn-PFF), were used to elucidate the functional domain of a nascent transmembrane receptor, JHA1, in its role as a mediator of α-syn-PFF endocytosis. Joel's advice to research students is to apply to labs or to opportunities that actually interest you. This will also make your application stronger.

Read more about his research here…