Dasha Perminova Wins Best Image at 2024 Biology Department Retreat

Dasha Perminova of the González-Rosa Lab won Best Image at the 2024 Biology Department Retreat, voted by her peers and Biology Faculty members.

Dasha writes: "The image is of a transgenic larval zebrafish under brightfield and is part of my work trying to understand and manipulate immune cells, especially T-cells, during zebrafish heart regeneration. This is further part of the overarching goal of the Gonzalez-Rosa lab to understand the molecular processes that facilitate regeneration and how these mechanisms differ from mammalian hearts, which do not regenerate. We hope that our work can eventually facilitate the development of novel therapies for heart disease and myocardial infarctions ("heart attacks"), which are becoming an increasingly prevalent global problem."