Lab News

Gabbi and Lev present work at the Gordon Conference on Visual System Development

May 2024

Congrats to Gabbi for being selected for a talk at the GRS symposium and for presenting her work on the mechanism by which MYRF human variants cause disease.  oung Science Innovators

Bill Presley wins the Member-In-Training Poster Competition at the ARVO 2024

May 2024

Congrats to Bill on his exciting project and award! Young Science Innovators

Marianna Hollaender visits the laboratory and KEC
and receives the ARVO Collaborative Partnership Grant

May 2024

Congrats to Marianna!  We enjoyed her visit in an Ann Arbor for our project on the "Genetics of Nanophthalmos in Brazil".  The collaborative partnership grant supports our joint efforts to define the genetic basis of nanophthalmos in the Brazilian populations, and better identify genotype-phenotype correlations.  Young Science Innovators

Gabbi Rozumek receives the OGPS Distinguished Service Award

April 2024

Congrats to Gabbi for her service efforts for Developing Future Biologists and UM Science Innovators, DNA day, among her many pursuitsU-M Young Science Innovators

Lev receives the ASCI Young Physician-Scientist Award  

April 2024

A huge honor as a physician-scientist to attend the annual ASCI meeting and meet other young clinician-scientists in various fields.  

Bill Presley receives Travel Award to attend ARVO annual meeting

March 2024

Congrats to Bill! His abstract was selected as a finalist for the Member in Training Poster Competition!

Lindsey Wilson joins the lab for a research rotation

February 2024

Welcome Lindsey!

Prasov Lab receives together with Zhang and Mian labs receive funding from the Eversight Eye Bank

January 2024

The Prasov lab, together with collaborators Dr. Zhang and Mian, received an Eversight Eye Bank Grant for their project entitled: "Developing gene editing for corneal dystrophies"

Gabbi Rozumek receives a travel award to the ABRCMS conference.

November 2023

Gabbi received a travel award to present her work entitled: "Humanized Mouse Model of C-Terminal MYRF Mutation Alters Gene Expression and Cell Cycle in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells" at the 2023 Annual ABRCMS conference, and was selected for an podium presentation!  Congrats Gabbi! 

Gabbi Rozumek receives multiple awards at the Molecular and Cellular Pathology Symposium!

November 2023

Gabbi received the Best Oral Presentation Awards for her talk entitled: "Unlocking the secrets of small eyes: using a humanized mouse to model eye size disorders" at the Annual MCP Symposium.  She also received the 2023 MCP Service Award!  Congrats Gabbi!  

Rachel Lim joins the laboratory as a UROP student

October 2023

Welcome Rachel! She will work together with the Gabbi to uncover the molecular mechanisms of the human MYRF C-terminal truncating variants in nanophthalmos.  

Bill Presley funded for the NEI F31 NRSA award

September 2023

Congrats Bill!

Gabbi Rozumek selected for the Vision Science Training Program

September 2023

Congrats Gabbi!

Fatima Traore joins the lab as a masters student

September 2023

Welcome Fatima!

Gabbi Rozumek joins the laboratory as a Graduate Student

May 2023

Welcome Gabbi!

Prasov lab at ARVO - Poster presentations by Michelle Brinkmeier, Bill Presley, and Bela Parekh

May 2023

Congrats to all! Great to see all of the work from our laboratory.  

Dr. Yan Zhang, Lev Prasov, and Shahzad Mian receive Research Scouts Award funding to develop base editing for corneal dystrophies

May 2023

We are excited to pursue a collaborative project together with the Zhang and Mian laboratories to develop base editing technology for TGFBI corneal dystrophies.  

Hannah Pittman and Hoon Jeong present their work at the UROP symposium

April 2023

Congrats Hoon and Hannah!

Prasov lab wins the Shaffer Prize from the Glaucoma Research Foundation for best 2021 Research Grant

Febuary 2023

The Prasov lab won the Shaffer Prize from the GRF for 2021 grant entitled, "Elucidating the Role of a Novel Closure Associated Gene in Eye Development and Disease" based on the work of Bill Presley and Su Qing Wang.  Thanks to the Glaucoma Research Foundation for this wonderful recognition.  

Joshua Stein and Lev Prasov receive the Epstein Award from the ARVO Foundation

Febuary 2023

Joshua Stein and Lev Prasov received the Epstein Award from the ARVO Foundation for their collaborative work on "Using Big Data and Familial Studies to Define Novel Glaucoma Genes", which will help propell Bill Presley's thesis work on novel glaucoma gene discovery.  

Bill Presley presents his work at a podium presentation at the ASHG Meeting

October 2022

Congrats Bill!

Hannah Pittman and Hoon Jeong join the laboratory as UROP students

September 2022

Welcome Hoon and Hannah!

Bridget Blevins joins the laboratory as a research coordinator.    

July 2022

Welcome Bridget!

July 2022

The Prasov Lab, together with collaborators/mentoring team Johann Gudjonsson, Michelle Kahlenberg, Alex Tsoi, and Robert Hufnagel, received a 4-year RPB Career Development Award to explore "The role of DDX58 in juvenile open angle glaucoma and Singleton-Merten syndrome."  

Natalie Michaels joins the lab as a research coordinator.

June 2022

Welcome Natalie!

May 2022

The Prasov Lab, together with collaborators Jason Miller and Kapil Bharti labs,  received a 3-year New Investigator in Macular Degeneration grant to explore "The role of MYRF in transcriptional regulation of retinal pigment epithelial maintenance."  We will apply knowledge learned from the developmental role of the MYRF transcription factor to define its function in RPE maintenance and ability to protect against AMD-relevant stressors.  

Catherine Tower joins the laboratory for a research rotation

October 2021

Welcome Catherine!

Jasmine publishes review together with Steve Armenti on Immunogenetics of the Ocular Anterior Segment and wins award for best medical student research project in ophthalmology at Case Western Reserve University

June 2021

Congrats Jasmine!

Camper-Prasov-Kitzman lab party

June 2021

Great to see everyone!

Story highlighting our research efforts and a family's journey towards a genetic diagnosis featured on UM Health.

June 3, 2021

Erika Ward joins the lab as a clinical research coordinator

June  2021

Welcome Erika!

Bill Presley receives spot on the Genetics Training Program T32

June 3, 2021

Congrats to Bill!

Athera Yakoo receives Biomedical and Life Sciences Summer Fellowship through UROP 

March 29,  2021

Congrats to Athera!

Bill Presley from the Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program joins the Prasov Lab

March 16,  2021

Manuscript entitled "DDX58(RIG-I)-related disease is associated with tissue-specific interferon pathway activation" published in Journal of Medical Genetics in collaboration with University of Michigan and National Institutes of Health and Federal University of Para investigators . 

January 25, 2021

Grant entitled "Elucidating the role of a novel angle closure associated gene in eye development and disease" funded from the Glaucoma Research Foundation

January 25, 2021

January 1, 2021

Manuscript entitled "Novel TMEM98, MFRP, PRSS56 variants in a large United States high hyperopia and nanophthalmos cohort" published in Scientific Reports in collaboration with NEI investigators (Ophthalmic Genomics Laboratory). 

November 17, 2020

Welcome Allison Cale from the Genetics and Genomics Graduate Program to the Prasov Lab for a Research Rotation

September 1, 2020

Jasmine Serpen joins the lab as a medical student researcher

July 1, 2020

Su Qing Wang, Kayla Johnson and Sahil Tolia join the lab

October/November 2019

April 30, 2019

These awards support researchers who are committed to careers as clinician-scientists. The awards are presented annually in recognition of significant research being presented at the ARVO Annual Meeting. This award was established in 2006 through a generous donation by the Alcon Foundation to the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research.