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News and events in the McCray Lab

January 2025: Alexis Meeker joins the lab as a research technician. 

We are excited to have Alexis join our group after finishing her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan Flint. She has a strong background in molecular biology approaches through her prior lab experiences. 

January 2025. Rodrigo Cartaxo joins the lab as a research specialist. 

We are lucky to have Rodrigo join our group. He comes to us from Carl Koschmann's lab at UM where he did exciting work on how the extracellular matrix influences growth of pediatric brain tumors. He brings extensive experience in cellular and molecular biology approaches and mouse models of disease. 

July 18, 2024: A Second Publication!

We are excited to announce that we have had a second manuscript published in Brain! This paper describes a combinatorial approach to determine whether TRPV4 variants are likely to be disease-causing or benign. We used clinical, genetic, and  structural analyses combined with cell-based studies, including ion channel activity, cytotoxicity, protein-protein interactions, and expression levels.

July 1, 2024: The McCray Lab Publishes Our First Paper

After months of work our first manuscript has been accepted for publication in Brain. This paper focuses on outlining the clinical features of TRPV4-related neuromuscular disease. In it, we describe demographic and detailed clinical data from 68 affected patients and highlight common manifestations of the disease. 

September 15, 2023: The McCray lab conducts first experiment  

 Below are the results of the first western blot conducted by the McCray lab at the University of Michigan

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August 31, 2023: New Faces: Brett McCray, MD, PHD

 Michigan medicine welcomes the McCray lab with an interview with Brett Himself

https://medicine.umich.edu/dept/mneuronet/news/archive/202308/new-faces-brett-mccray-md-phd#:~:text=Meet%20the%20physician%2Dscientist%20who,Brett%20McCray%2C%20M.D.%2C%20Ph.

July 17, 2023: Linh Vo joins the lab as a postdoctoral fellow

Linh recently defended her PhD thesis at Wayne State and has a background in studying human disease in cellular models. 

July 1, 2023: The McCray lab officially opens at the University of Michigan

Brett welcomes Gage Kosmanopoulos, and they get to work setting up the lab. 

The McCray Lab
Biomedical Science Research Building
109 Zina Pitcher Place
Room 5368
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

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