YorkU Hosts Gairdner Neuroscience Symposium

Posted on Nov 20, 2017 by Cristina Lento

Irina Oganesyan and Shenbaga Moorthy presented posters at the Gairdner Neuroscience Symposium hosted by York University today.

Irina's work focusses on studying alpha-synuclein, a presynaptic neuronal protein linked to Parkinson disease, specifically to it's interactions with membranes.

Moorthy's work focusses on studying the effect of small molecule inhibitors on Amyloid-beta (Aß) fibrillation.