Congratulations, Benjamin J. Fowler, PhD

Congratulations are in order to Benjamin J. Fowler, PhD, who successfully defended his dissertation yesterday. Fowler has been studying under Dr. Jay Ambati in the Department of Ophthalmology. This milestone marks the conclusion of his graduate requirements of his PhD program. Fowler studies non-coding RNA biology in the context of a disease called age-related macular degeneration. Some of his research interests include the host cell response to retrotranposons and the plasticity and intra-individual divergence of the somatic genome.