- Full Name: Shumet Tenaw Gegnaw
- Academic Rank: Assistant Professor (PhD)
- Institutional email: shumet_tenaw@dmu.edu.et
- Google scholar/ORCID address/Scopus/WoS:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5182-2878
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Gegnaw+ST&cauthor_id=40171795
- Specialization: Neurosciences
- Courses taught: MSc. Courses (Bioinformatics, Omics Technologies, Research Methods and Biostatistics, Biosafety & Bioethics), BSc. Courses (Bioinformatics, Diagnostic Technologies, Omics Science)
- Achievements and awards: Erasmus+ PhD fellowship award, European Biological Rhythms Society Congress Travel Award
- Research interest: Genomics and Bioinformatics, neurodegenerative diseases, circadian clocks, stem cells, and environmental health.
- List of Publications:
- Gegnaw ST, Sandu C, Bery A, Ten Brink JB, Milićević N, Jongejan A, Moerland PD, Bergen AA, Felder-Schmittbuhl MP. Circadian clock disruption promotes retinal photoreceptor degeneration. FASEB J. 2025 Apr 15;39(7):e70507.
- Gegnaw ST, Sandu C, Mazzaro N, Mendoza J, Bergen AA, Felder-Schmittbuhl MP. Enhanced Robustness of the Mouse Retinal Circadian Clock Upon Inherited Retina Degeneration. J Biol Rhythms. 2022 Oct;37(5):567-574.
- Gegnaw ST, Sandu C, Mendoza J, Bergen AA, Felder-Schmittbuhl MP. Dark-adapted light response in mice is regulated by a circadian clock located in rod photoreceptors. Exp Eye Res. 2021 Dec;213:108807.
- Bagchi U, Gegnaw ST, Milićević N, Sandu C, Ten Brink JB, Jongejan A, Hicks D, Moerland PD, Felder-Schmittbuhl MP, Bergen AA. Core-clock genes Period 1 and 2 regulate visual cascade and cell cycle components during mouse eye development. Biochim Biophys Acta Gene Regul Mech. 2020 Oct;1863(10):194623.
- Elashry MI, Gegnaw ST, Klymiuk MC, Wenisch S, Arnhold S. Influence of mechanical fluid shear stress on the osteogenic differentiation protocols for Equine adipose tissue-derived mesenchymal stem cells. Acta Histochem. 2019 Apr;121(3):344-353
- Research and project information (completed and ongoing): Assessment, characterization, and sustainable management of municipal solid waste generated in Debre Markos Town, Ethiopia (Ongoing).