Aksu Gunay BS
Designation
- Graduate Research Assistant/ PhD Student
- she/her
- agunay3 [at] uic.edu
- (312) 996-6642
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Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI)
912 S. Wood St.
Department of Psychiatry (MC 913)
Chicago IL 60612 - Room #:532
Aksu graduated from the Biology Department of Middle East Technical University (METU). After graduation, she became a Post-Bachelor Research Fellow at the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University for two years. Now, Aksu is a Ph.D. student in the Graduate Education Medical Sciences Ph.D. Program in Neuroscience Concentration. She joined the CoNeCT lab with Dr. Olusola Ajilore and the Rasenick lab with Dr. Mark Rasenick. Currently, she is working on the Unobtrusive Monitoring of Affective Symptoms and Cognition using Keyboard Dynamics (UnMASCK) study.
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- Gunay, A., Shin, H. H., Gozutok, O., Gautam, M. & Ozdinler, P. H. Importance of lipids for upper motor neuron health and disease. Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology 112, 92–104 (2021).
- Genç, B. et al. NU-9 improves health of hSOD1G93A mouse upper motor neurons in vitro, especially in combination with riluzole or edaravone. Sci Rep 12, 5383 (2022).
- Gautam, M., Gunay, A., Chandel, N. S. & Ozdinler, P. H. Mitochondrial dysregulation occurs early in ALS motor cortex with TDP-43 pathology and suggests maintaining NAD+ balance as a therapeutic strategy. Sci Rep 12, 4287 (2022).
- Gautam, M. et al. SBT-272 improves TDP-43 pathology in the ALS motor cortex by modulating mitochondrial integrity, motility, and function. http://biorxiv.org/lookup/doi/10.1101/2022.10.04.510854 (2022) doi:10.1101/2022.10.04.510854.
- Gunay, A. & Pinna, G. The novel rapid-acting neurosteroid-based antidepressant generation. Current Opinion in Endocrine and Metabolic Research 24, 100340 (2022).