Mr. Ryan Schutte, a graduate student in the O’Dowd and Smith labs, is using fruit flies to understand how seizures are generated in Dravet Syndrome, a severe childhood epilepsy. Schutte in collaboration with a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Lei Sun, are using this new fly model as a low cost platform to screen for novel compounds to treat Dravet Syndrome and related epilepsies. Schutte’s research has earned him one of two 2012-2013 $20,000 UC Irvine/Stanley Behrens Public Impact Fellowships. Continue reading..http://www.som.uci.edu/features/feature-seizures03252013.asp