Michael Telias, PhD
Assistant Professor
Flaum Eye Institute & Center for Visual Science
University of Rochester

I'm a neuroscientist with a focus in molecular and cellular physiology.
My goal is to understand the interplay between neuronal activity and gene expression, and how it is affected by disease in the retina and in the brain.
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B.Sc. Medical Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL 2005
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M.Sc. Medical Neurobiology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL 2008
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Ph.D. Cell & Dev. Biology, Tel Aviv University; Department of Neurobiology, the Weizmann Institute of Science, ISRAEL 2015
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Postdoc, Mol. & Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, 2019.

Jared Enders
Lab Technician
Jared graduated from the University at Buffalo with a B.S. in Biological Sciences concentration in Neuroscience, a minor in Business Management, and an M.E. in Chemical Engineering following a course focus of Biotechnology.
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Dr. Leonor Afrima, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Leonor holds a B.S. in Animal Sciences, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Bio-Medical Sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition, she was a Research Assistant at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an R&D Researcher at Phibro.

Dr. Yusof Gusti
Postdoctoral Associate
Yusof holds a B.S. in Biology and an M.S. in Technical Anatomy and Histology from King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, and a Ph.D. in Biotechnology from Dublin City University. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate in the Department of Surgery at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

Alan Abraham
Master's Student/Research Assistant
Alan finished a major in Cell & Developmental Biology and a minor in Psychology at the University of Rochester, and is currently a Master's student in Medical Pharmacology.
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