Thihan Padukkavidana is a recent PhD graduate from the Cell Biology department at Yale. His expertise are in translational biomedical research, particularly in the neurodegeneration field of neuroscience. He is currently working on disease mechanisms of Frontotemporal Dementia, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease.
I am a fifth-year graduate student in the Rhoades lab. When I'm not helping with the IGEM team, I study the protein alpha-synuclein and its role in Parkinson's disease using primarily biophysical methods. When I'm not in the lab, you can usually find me swimming, biking, or running.
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