About Sindhu Vemulapalli
Hi everyone! I'm a rising sophomore majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior. My research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center's Troy Lab investigates how retinal vein occlusion (RVO) — a leading vascular cause of vision loss and blindness — affects the lateral geniculate nucleus, the thalamic structure that relays visual information from the retina to the cortex. RVO is typically treated as a disease of the eye, but vision depends on the entire pathway, and damage at the retina may drive changes deeper in the brain that go unrecognized in current care. I'm interested in characterizing those downstream effects on the LGN and identifying neurological markers that could help explain why some patients lose vision permanently while others recover, ultimately informing earlier intervention before blindness becomes irreversible. Outside the lab, I love singing a capella with Columbia Sur and exploring the city. I'm excited to meet everyone and please feel free to reach out!
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Hi Ruchi, I found your reflection on the ethics of your project to be very interesting! I am working in a completely different field, so I really appreciated the opportunity to understand how prison literature and understanding the gravity of reading the accounts of real people during vulnerable periods of their life comes with ethical obligations. I think it makes a lot of sense and is a very good point to be wary of fictionalizing any aspect of the literature!
Hi Lauren! I totally agree with you about how incredible the interdisciplinary nature of our cohort is! I was similarly impressed by the vastly different ways our mentor group is conducting research, and found your research project to be very interesting! Looking forward to hear how your research is developing and the specific techniques you are using in the lab!