Eliana Scemes

Eliana Scemes is a Visiting Professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at New York Medical College. Her research focuses on purinergic signaling and gap junctional communication in the central nervous system (CNS). Key projects include studying astrocyte gap junctions' role in the blood-brain barrier, glia-neuronal pannexins in epilepsy and pain, and mechanisms of ATP release from glial cells.

• Education: M.S. and Ph.D. (specific details not provided)

Her lab investigates calcium signaling in glial cells, including progenitor cell migration, transmitter release, and cell-to-cell communication. Current projects explore:
- Contribution of gap junctions and ATP receptors to neural progenitor differentiation
- ATP release mechanisms in astrocytes
- Pannexin1 and P2X7 receptor roles in neuroinflammation.

Publications include studies on glial signaling mechanisms, though specific article details are not listed here. No awards or grants are explicitly mentioned in the provided text.