Sumner Lab

Previous Positions:​

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• Research fellow

  • Roswell Park Cancer Institute

    • Department of Immunology with Dr. Elizabeth Repasky

• PhD candidate

  • Hunter James Kelly Research Institute

    • Department of Neurology with Drs. Laura Feltri and Larry Wrabetz

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Research Interests:

 

• peripheral nerve

• glia-axon interaction

• genetic neuromuscular disorders​

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Current Projects:

 

​Understanding motor neuron development and degeneration in spinal muscular atrophy, including glial-axon interactions.

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Hobbies:

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Trying new restaurants, cooking sourdough bread, taking my son on stroller runs, watching the Bills! #GoBills

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Contact:

 

creed46@jh.edu

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Publications:

 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1937-4809

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• Deletion of calcineurin in Schwann cells does not affect developmental myelination, but reduces autophagy and delays myelin clearance after peripheral nerve injury

  CB Reed, LR Frick, A Weaver, M Sidoli, E Schlant, ML Feltri, L Wrabetz

  Journal of Neuroscience 40 (32), 6165-6176

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• Peripheral glia diversity

  CB Reed, ML Feltri, ER Wilson

  Journal of anatomy 241 (5), 1219-1234

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