David Snead
I am a Research Associate in the Kavran Lab here at JHU. I did my post-doc in the labs of Samara Reck-Peterson and Andres Leschziner at UC San Diego. I used a combination of cryoEM, single molecule microscopy, and protein biochemistry to study microtubule binding by the Parkinson’s Disease associated protein, LRRK2. Prior to that, I obtained my MD-PhD at the Tri-Institutional program of Weill Cornell Medical School, Rockefeller University, and Sloan-Kettering. My graduate research was performed in the lab of David Eliezer, where I applied solution state protein NMR spectroscopy to study lipid membrane binding by the intrinsically disordered presynaptic protein complexin. I subsequently spent an additional year in the lab of Jeremy Dittman, also at Weill Cornell, using behavioral assays in C. elegans to further study the structure and function of complexin.