Stavros Lomvardas, PhD, has been appointed chair of the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics at the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. He will be the first in this role to carry the title P. Roy Vagelos Chair of the department. Lomvardas is the Columbia University Florence and Herbert Irving Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics and a principal investigator at the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain and Behavior Institute. His appointment as department chair is effective Jan. 1, 2023.
Lomvardas’ research program focuses on the genomic mechanisms of olfactory…
Patterned changes to 3D-genome organization and chromatin state prove essential for normal gene expression, whose dysregulation is a causal determinant of many neurodevelopmental diseases. Using mouse olfactory sensory neurons as a model system, we devised a single-cell genomic strategy to understand how neurons achieve the nuclear architecture and chromatin modifications necessary to support normal gene expression. We aim to characterize structural and biochemical features that distinguish genes in active and inactive states, while delineating a molecular mechanism for how these features arise,…
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Research collaboration teases out cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie one of pandemic’s signature symptoms, with implications for other health conditions
Long Covid: What science has learned about the loss of smell and taste by Sandee LaMotte
Reference to our paper in CNN (10/01/2022)
Why COVID-19 Sufferers Lose Their Sense of Smell by David J Craig, Columbia Health Magazine
Reference to our work in Columbia Health Magazine (Spring/summer 2022)
How the Coronavirus Steals the Sense of Smell …
Joan Pulupa was awarded the prestigious Simons Society fellowship for outstanding early-career scientists.
Stavros received the Inaugural Herbert and Florence Irving Professorships at ZI. Congrats!
Congratulations Jerome on successfully defending your dissertation and becoming Dr Kahiapo! Thesis titled: "ATF5 links Olfactory receptor induced stress response to proper neuronal function"
Findings reveal potential new strategy for treating people diagnosed with schizophrenia.