Thinakaran Lab - Cell Biology of Alzheimer's Disease

Danielle Blazier successfully defended her thesis research on October 8, 2025.

Our research on PICALM, published in Nature , was highlighted in a USF Health News: "Gene variant slows down removal of debris in the brain, increasing Alzheimer’s risk, say USF Health researchers" https://bit.ly/47AAjxY

Congratulations to all authors!   We are excited to share our recent publication in Nature: PICALM Alzheimer's risk allele causes aberrant lipid droplets in microglia. This paper is the outcome of a wonderful collaboration between our lab and the Duan Lab at Endeavor Health Research Institute and the University of Chicago https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09486-x .

Joe McMillan successfully defended his thesis research on March 25, 2025.

We presented seven posters - six on the characterization of BIN1 modulation of Alzheimer's pathogenesis and one on YTHDF1 and m6A in...

Congratulations to Daniel for securing an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship for his project entitled "The role of AD risk...

Melike and Carlos decided to tie the knot. We wish them all the happiness in the world.

Congratulations to Ari on his success in receiving a BrightFocus fellowship!

Congratulations to all authors! We are excited to share our recent publication in Brain: Loss of forebrain BIN1 attenuates...

Congratulations for his success in securing an Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship for his project entitled "Elucidating the role...

Congratulations to all authors! We are excited to share our recent publication in Molecular Neurodegeneration: BIN1 is a key regulator of...

Celebrating Joe's Joe’s Admission to Doctoral Candidacy and Ari's Molecular Neurodegeneration manuscript acceptance. Now that the cake is...

Thinakaran and Parent Labs held their Annual Holiday Lunch. The pictures from our traditional gift exchange are in this link - click here

A video highlighting how USF Health is pushing the reaches of academic medicine forward at the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine to...

Thinakaran and Parent Labs held their Annual Holiday Party - virtually this year due to the pandemic. Despite being virtual, the party...

Congratulations to Elle - Neuroscience Honors student in the lab (2018). She is going to attend UCLA's Neuroscience program this Fall.

Congratulations to Jessica - graduating with Honors in Neuroscience. Jessica will join Bart DeStrooper's lab as a Fulbright scholar in...

Congratulations to Aleks - graduating with Honors in Biology. She is off to join the Columbia MD-PhD Program this fall.

Congratulations to Haley - Biology Honors student in the lab (2019). Haley has been awarded the Thomas S. Murphy Merit Scholarship to...

Our recent paper on BIN1 has been featured in the news. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uosf-bdi031120.php...