Graduate student Zainab Tanvir publishes first author paper in departmental collaborative effort.

Zainab's first paper as a part of her PhD journey was accepted in October 2020 in the Journal of Comparative Neurology! The paper is entitled " Evolutionary and homeostatic changes in morphology of visual dendrites of Mauthner cells in Astyanax blind cavefish " and was a joint effort between three neighboring labs: Soares, Haspel, and Severi. The effort was spearheaded by Zainab wit assistance from an undergraduate Daihana Rivera. Congratulations!

You can find the paper linked here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33070322/

This work was previously submitted as a pre-print: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.094680v1