program in neuroscience 

PhD Students in the Program in Neuroscience 

Upcoming Defenses

Patricia Wynne on Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 2:00pm in BNRI, Room 203       
(Mentor: Steven Treistman, Ph.D.)       

Senior students who have passed the Qualifying Exam and are conducting thesis research 

Michelle Avery
Jennifer Broderick
Joanna Chaurette (MD/PhD Program)
Caroline Connor (MD/PhD Program)                 
Shamik DasGupta
Johnna Doherty
Jamie Donnelly
Thomas Flood** (MD/PhD Program)
Yuly Fuentes Medel
Peiyi Guo
Linzy Hendrickson
Reina Improgo
Yan Jiang
Kimberly Kerr
Alex Koon
Ceren Korkut
Michael Krashes*
Jason Lefkowitz
Sue-Wei Lin
Nikolaos Mellios
Lina Ni
Paola Perrat
Edith Pfister
Jennifer Pirri
Preethi Ramachandran
Lei Shi                                                       
Ozge Tasdemir
Patricia Wynne*                                            Thesis scheduled 11/24/08
Shun-Jen (Jacob) Yang                                 Successfully defended on 10/14/08
Elizabeth Yu (MD/PhD Program)
Quan Yuan 
Jennifer Ziegenfuss

* Recipient of individual NRSA predoctoral fellowship 
** 2008 recipient, National Science Foundation Fellowship Grant, East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI) program in Japan

Students Conducting 'pre-qualifying research'

Luke Gabriel
Jennifer MacDonald (MD/PhD Program)
Jeanette Osterloh
Hilary Prescott

Neuroscience Program Graduates 

Thomas K. Knott*                        (2001)    Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Nikolaos Vlachakis                       (2002)    Mentor: Charles G. Sagerström
John J. Crowley*                         (2003)    Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Keith Tully*                                 (2004)    Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Paula L. Feinberg-Zadek               (2005)    Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Karl F. Schmidt                           (2006)    Mentor: Craig F. Ferris 
James Ashley                              (2006)    Mentor: Vivian Budnik 
Alex Keene*                               (2006)    Mentor: Scott Waddell
John Heneghan                           (2007)    Mentor: Ann R. Rittenhouse
Ania Busza* (MD/PhD Program)      (2007)    Mentor: Patrick Emery
Sen-Lin Lai                                 (2007)   Mentor: Tzumin Lee
Mandy L. Roberts-Crowley            (2007)   Mentor: Ann Rittenhouse
Alejandro Murad                          (2007)   Mentor: Patrick Emery
Frederick (Al) Schroeder               (2008)   Mentor: Schahram Akbarian
Bulent Ataman                            (2008)   Mentor: Vivian Budnik
Cristina Velazquez-Marrero            (2008)   Mentor: Jose Lemos
Hsien-Sung Huang                       (2008)   Mentor: Schahram Akbarian
James (Jay) McNally*                   (2008)   Mentor: Jose Lemos
Tora Mitra-Ganguli                        (2008)   Mentor: Ann Rittenhouse

*Recipient of individual NRSA predoctoral fellowship