Laboratory Members
![Shunichi Yoshikawa, Ph.D.](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Yoshikawa-Shunichi.jpg)
Shunichi Yoshikawa, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Molecular diversity of connexins in zebrafish retina.
![Keith B. Moore, Ph.D.](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Moore-Keith.jpg)
Keith B. Moore, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Regulation of gap junction coupling by NMDA receptors and Ca2+ signaling.
![Helen Yanran Wang, M.S.](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Wang-Helen.jpg)
Helen Yanran Wang, M.S.
GSBS Graduate Student
Connexin turnover and trafficking and regulation by signaling complexes.
![Alejandro Vila, M.S.](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Vila-Alejandro.jpg)
Alejandro Vila, M.S.
GSBS Graduate Student
Signaling complexes at photoreceptor synapses.
![Ya-Ping Lin, M.S.](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Lin-Ya-Ping.jpg)
Ya-Ping Lin, M.S.
Research Assistant
Everything
![Cheryl K. Mitchell, M.S.](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Mitchell-Cheryl.jpg)
Cheryl K. Mitchell, M.S.
Senior Research Associate
Vision Core Grant Tissue Culture Facility Manager
Cell culture – regulation of gap junction coupling
Joshua Atkinson, B.S.
MSIV – UT Houston Medical Student
Bystander killing in a zebrafish model of Retinitis Pigmentosa
![Kevin Zhang](https://med.uth.edu/ophthalmology/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2018/05/research-obrien-lab-members-Zhang-Kevin.jpg)
Kevin Zhang
Clements High School Student
Connexin diversity in zebrafish photoreceptors