Ramiz Somjee

Program: Computational and Systems Biology

Current advisor: Joseph C. Corbo, MD, PhD

Undergraduate university: Rhodes College, 2020

Enrollment year: 2021

Research summary
Studying disordered protein regions and their role in photoreceptor gene regulation

Many protein regions do not adopt a fixed secondary structure and thus are labelled “intrinsically disordered”. I study the role of these intrinsically disordered protein regions in gene regulation using the retina as a model system.

Graduate publications
Volkov LI, Ogawa Y, Somjee R, Vedder HE, Powell HE, Poria D, Meiselman S, Kefalov VJ, Corbo JC. 2024 Samd7 represses short-wavelength cone genes to preserve long-wavelength cone and rod photoreceptor identity. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 121(47)::e2402121121. PMCID: PMC11588049