Connor Monahan

@ConnorMonahan8

PhD candidate @columbia studying Parkinson’s Disease || Agalliu Lab + Sulzer Lab || he/him 🏳️‍🌈

Joined April 2021

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Connor Monahan @ConnorMonahan8 Aug 18, 2023

I'm excited to share that our paper on autoimmune mechanisms in Parkinson's disease is officially out in Neuron today!

Congrats to my amazing co-author @FGarrettiPhD and a big thank you to my mentors @DAgalliu and Dave Sulzer!

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Connor Monahan @ConnorMonahan8 Feb 6, 2022

Interaction of an α-synuclein epitope with HLA-DRB1*15:01 initiates early enteric features of Parkinson's disease in humanized mice biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

www.biorxiv.org Interaction of an α-synuclein epitope with HLA-DRB1*15:01 initiates early enteric features of... Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients possess circulating T cells that recognize specific α-synuclein-(α-syn)-derived epitopes. One epitope, α-syn32-46, interacts strongly with the HLA-DRB1*15:01 allele...

Connor Monahan @ConnorMonahan8 Apr 5, 2021

Coincidentally joined twitter the same day that a major project I worked on at Boston College got published. Check it out if you're into neurodevelopment and genetics!
dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…