program in neuroscience
Upcoming Thesis Defenses
Joanna Chaurette (MD/PhD Program) (Mentor: Neil Aronin)
“Exploring therapeutic approaches to treating Huntington’s disease: modifying mutant huntingtin accumulation by puromycin sensitive aminopeptidase and RNAi”
Wednesday May 22, 2013 at 10:00 am
Location: AS6.2072 (Sherman Center 6th Floor Conference Room)
Jeannette M. Osterloh (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
"dSarm/Sarm1 Governs a Conserved Axon Death Program"
Monday, June 3, 2013 at 2:00pm
LRB - 716, Tara Bean Conference Room
Luke Gabriel (Mentor: Haley Melikian)
"Dynamic Regulation at the Neuronal Plasma Membrane: Novel Endocytic Mechanisms Control Anesthetic-Activated Potassium Channels and Amphetamine-Sensitive Dopamine Transporters"
Thursday June 13, 2013 at 10:00am
LRB - 816
Jinli Ling (Mentor: Patrick Emery)
"Transcriptional and translational mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms in Drosophila "
Friday, June 14, 2013 at 2:30pm
LRB - 716, Tara Bean Conference Room
Recent Thesis Defenses
Christopher Burke (Mentor: Scott Waddell)
"Layered Reward Signaling through Octopamine and Dopamine in Drosophila"
Friday, May 10, 2013 at 2:00pm
LRB - 716, Tara Bean Conference Room
Zhifeng Liang (Mentor: Nanyin Zhang)
"Understanding Neural Networks in Awake Rats by Resting-State Functional MRI"
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 2:30pm
BNRI - 205, BNRI Conference Room
MD/PhD Students in the Program in Neuroscience
Alison Casserly (Mentor: Andrew Tapper)
Havisha Karnam (Mentor: Robert Brown)
Tim Rooney (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
PhD Students in the Program in Neuroscience
Navonil Banerjee (Mentor: Michael Francis)
Belinda Barbagallo* (Mentor: Michael Francis)
Cassandra Blanchette (Mentor: Claire Bénard)
Maurine Braun (Mentor: William Schwartz)
Thomas Burdett (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
Hui-Min Chen (Mentor: Tzumin Lee)
Hsin-Jung Chou (Mentor: Fen-Biao Gao)
Christopher Clark (Mentor: Mark Alkema)
Steven DeGroot (Mentor: Andrew Tapper)
Melissa Derner Guildford (Mentor: Andrew Tapper)
Jonathan Farley (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
Lauren Foley (Mentor: Patrick Emery)
Ting-Hao Huang (Mentor: Carlos Lois)
Yung-Chi Huang (Mentor: Mark Alkema)
Vahbiz Jokhi (Mentor: Vivian Budnik)
Anagha Khandekar (Kulkarni) (Mentor: Claire Bénard)
Pallavi Lamba (Mentor: Patrick Emery)
Jermaine Lawson (Mentor: Lawrence Hayward)
Yihang Li (Mentor: Vivian Budnik)
Kelly Limoncelli (Mentor: Melissa Moore)
Wenjie Mao (Mentors: Kensuke Futai & Schahram Akbarian)
Allie Muthukumar (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
Jennifer Ngolab (Mentors: Paul Gardner & Andrew Tapper)
Xueyan (Alice) Pang (Mentors: Paul Gardner & Andrew Tapper)
Alison Philbrook (Mentor: Michael Francis)
Edie Plada (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
James Ritch (Mentor: Claire Bénard)
Harleen Saini (Mentor: Melissa Moore)
Lindsey Soll (Mentor: Andrew Tapper)
Matthew Stigliano (Mentor: John Landers)
Ozge Tasdemir (Mentor: Marc Freeman)
Sijia Wu (Mentor: Haley Melikian)
*Recipient of individual NRSA predoctoral fellowship
Neuroscience Program Graduates