Dr. Maria Constanza Potilinski (she goes by Connie) also was a visiting scholar in Dr. Ash’s lab working on “Alpha-1-antitrypsin to delay retinal degeneration on a mice model of retinitis pigmentosa.  Prior to that she was a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratory of Nano Medicine and Vision Group, Instituto de Investigaciones en Medicina Traslacional (IIMT) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.  She also completed her PhD on Molecular Biology and Biotechnology in the Laboratory of Physiology and Biophysics at the National university of San Martin, Buenos Aries.