Deven Cathcart
I joined the Khoshbouei lab in March of 2023 under the mentorship of Adithya Gopinath. My project mainly focuses on understanding the role of dopamine transporter (DAT) in the peripheral immune system. Specifically I am focusing on the effects of cytokines on DAT trafficking in macrophages. We hypothesis that immunosuppressive cytokines increase membrane DAT. I use techniques such as Western blots, and biotinylation to test this hypothesis