Leonardo A Parra-Rivas, Ph.D./MSCI

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2011-2018 Biology University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 
 2019-2024 Pathology University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 
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Neuroscience, Synaptic Transmission
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https://profiles.ucsd.edu/leonardo.parra
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Dr. Parra received his B.S. and M.S. Degree in Biochemistry from the Catholic University of Valparaiso, Chile. He conducted research in the laboratory of Dr. Gonzalo Torres at the University of Pittsburgh, where he focused on the regulation of dopamine and the physiological role of brain specific transporters. Dr. Parra obtained his M.S. in Clinical Investigation and PhD in Neuroscience under the direction of Dr. Erik Jorgensen at the University of Utah (a laboratory of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute), where he studied the molecular basis of synaptic transmission, the crosstalk between neurons. Currently, he continues his post-doctoral training with Dr. Subhojit Roy at the University of California San Diego. In the Roy lab his research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying the functions of synaptic proteins in neurodegenerative disorders.

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Gonzalo E. Torres research assistant 2008-2010 University of Pittsburgh
Gonzalo E. Torres grad student 2007-2008 University of Pittsburgh
Erik Jorgensen grad student 2011-2018 University of Utah
Subhojit Roy post-doc 2019-2023 UCSD
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Parra-Rivas LA, Madhivanan K, Aulston BD, et al. (2023) Serine-129 phosphorylation of α-synuclein is an activity-dependent trigger for physiologic protein-protein interactions and synaptic function. Neuron. 111: 4006-4023.e10
Parra-Rivas LA, Palfreyman MT, Vu TN, et al. (2022) Interspecies complementation identifies a pathway to assemble SNAREs. Iscience. 25: 104506
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