Robert M. Gould, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor, Anatomy & Cell Biology
Cellular/Molecular, Disease/Therapeutics
Understanding the formation of myelin through characterization of evolution of genes expressed by myelinating cells and neurons and understand the kinesin motor based trafficking of myelin.
Selected references
- Schweigreiter R, Roots BI, Bandtlow CE, Gould RM., Understanding myelination through studying its evolution. Int Rev Neurobiol. 2006;73:219-73.
- Gould RM, Morrison HG, Gilland E, Campbell RK., Myelin tetraspan family proteins but no non-tetraspan family proteins are present in the ascidian (Ciona intestinalis) genome. Biol Bull. 2005 Aug;209(1):49-66.
- Stankoff B, Wang Y, Bottlaender M, Aigrot MS, Dolle F, Wu C, Feinstein D, Huang GF, Semah F, Mathis CA, Klunk W, Gould RM, Lubetzki C, Zalc B. Imaging of CNS myelin by positron-emission tomography. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jun;103(24):9304-9.