Council Dates: October 2008 - May 2009
Independent Position: Department of Pharmacology, Wayne State University
Sokol Todi was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Neurology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. In the laboratory of Hank Paulson, his research focused on the link between neurodegeneration and perturbations in protein quality control (PQC). More specifically, he investigated how deubiquitinating enzymes (integral components of ubiquitin pathways) are regulated by ubiquitination and how ubiquitination in turn affects their roles in PQC. Understanding these mechanisms would be critical in protecting neurons against toxic proteinaceous agents that accumulate in the brain. He earned his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa, and his B.Sc. in Biological Sciences from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.