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Recent Graduates
2012
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Zhuoxun Chen, Ph.D.
Identification of Molecular Determinants of Testosterone-induced Angiogenesis and Neurogenesis in Adult Songbird Brain
Advisor:
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Cory Hussar, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Mark Churchland's Lab, Columbia University
Representation of speed and direction in prefrontal cortex during motion discrimination tasks
Advisor:
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Crystal Rose McClain, Ph.D.
Pleiotrophin Maintenance of PDGFRα-defined Fetal Human Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Fate
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2011
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Michael Simon Jacob, Ph.D.
Currently: Medical Student, University of Rochester Medical Center
The active control of self-movement perception: Neuronal mechanisms and cognitive aging
Advisor:
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Susan Sojung Lee, Ph.D.
Currently: Medical Student, University of Rochester Medical Center
Audiovisual Integration During Language Comprehension: The Neural Basis of Social Communication in Autism and Typical Development
Advisor:
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Kathleen M. McAvoy, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Dr. Amar Sahay's Lab, Harvard University
The Von Hippel-Lindau Protein Regulates Developmental Cell Death in Sympathetic Neurons
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2010
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Lynette Anne Desouza, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Reseach, Mumbai, India
EGLN3 Regulates the Rate of Cell Death in Developing Sympathetic Neurons Following Nerve Growth Factor Withdrawal
Advisor:
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Marina Stoytcheva Dobreva, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
The Influence of Aging, Memory, and Stimulus Characteristics on Human Auditory and Visual Spatial Localization
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Sarah Bliss Matousek, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow (Dual Appointment), Brigham & Women's Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Chronic Neuroinflammation: Contribution of IL-1β to Prostaglandin Production and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology
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Michael James Moravan, M.D., Ph.D.
Currently: Neurological Surgery Resident, Strong Memorial Hosp., University of Rochester
Irradiation of mouse brain leads to neuroinflammation and delayed infiltration of immune cells: role of interleukin-1 and ccr2 signaling
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William Ryan Mowrey
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Portman Lab, Center for Aging & Developmental Biology, University of Rochester
Distributed Control of Sex Differences in the Locomotor Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans
Advisor:
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Michael J. Pesavento, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of David Kleinfeld, UC San Diego
Neurons to Networks and Back Again: Neocortical Circuit Processing of Transient Sensory Input
Advisor:
- David J. Pinto, Ph.D.
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Stephen Raiker
Currently: Research Fellow, Thomas Schwarz’s Lab affiliated with Children’s Hospital Boston/ Harvard Medical School
The Nogo-66 Receptor, NgR1, Regulates Structural and Functional Plasticity at Schaffer Collateral-CA1 Synapses
Advisor:
- Roman J. Giger, Ph.D.
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Deborah Ryan, Ph.D.
Targeting Amyloid-beta in a Passive Immunotherapeutic Approach to Disrupt Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis.
Advisor:
- William J. Bowers, Ph.D.
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Arnulfo Torres-Peña
Extracellular Calcium as a Novel Mediator of Neuron-Glia Communication
Advisor:
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I-Chen Yu, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Multiple Roles of the Androgen Receptor in Insulin Resistance and Metabolic Syndrome: Tissue-specific Perspectives
2009
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Aaron Lee Cecala, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor of Physiology, Elizabethtown College, PA
Head-Unrestrained Primate Gaze Adaptation
Advisor:
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Bernard Phillip Gee, Ph.D.
Currently: Assistant Professor, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Do retinal parallel processing streams play different roles in visual search?
Advisor:
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Sarita Anisha Kishore, M.D., Ph.D.
Currently: Ophthalmology Resident, University of Louisville Med. Ctr., KY
The Attentional Modulation of Navigational Cue Integration by Cortical Neurons
Advisor:
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KyungHwa Lee, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
Sex Differences in a C. elegans Sensory Behavior
Advisor:
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Ditte Therese Lovatt, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Pennsylvania University School of Medicine
The role of reactive astrocytes in epilepsy
Advisor:
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Yuriy Shapovalov, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Majewska Lab, University of Rochester
The Role of Neuroinflammation in the Pathogenesis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Advisor:
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Carolyn Mary Tyler, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Suppression of TrkA activation in sympathetic neurons using the TrkAF592A chemical-genetic mouse: an examination of the effects on apoptosis and maturation
Advisor:
2008
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Onanong Annie Chivatakarn, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA
Semaphorin 5A (Sema5A) functions in neocortical development in vivo
Advisor:
- Roman J. Giger, Ph.D.
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Yasser Elshatory Mohamed, M.D., Ph.D.
Currently: Ophthalmology Resident, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK
The LIM-Homeobox Gene Islet-1 is a Key Regulator of Restricted Neuronal Subtypes in the Retina and Forebrain
Advisor:
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Yanan Guo, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Regulation of the proapoptotic protein BIMEL through its interactions with the HIF prolyl hydroxylase EGLN3 and the tumor suppressor pVHL.
Advisor:
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Erin McKernan Johnson-Vekatesh, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Neurotrophin Receptors Regulate Synaptic Development in the Murine Cerebellum
Advisors:
- Roman J. Giger, Ph.D.
- Hermes Yeh, Ph.D.
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Grace Anna Johnston, Ph.D.
Currently: Millipore Corporation, Billerica, MA
Astrocytic Hypoxia Inducible Factor 1 alpha Mediates Neuronal Cell Death in Hypoxia
Advisor:
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Irah Luther King, Ph.D.
Currently: Postdoctoral Fellowship, Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY
The Role of Granulocyte/Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor During the Priming and Effector Phases of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis
Advisor:
- Benjamin Segal, M.D.
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Nancy Ann Oberheim Bush, M.D., Ph.D.
Currently: Neurology Resident, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
The Functional Organization of Astrocytes in Normal and Epileptic Brain
Advisor:
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Laurie Robak, M.D.
Currently: Medical Genetics/Pediatrics Internship and Residency, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
The Structural Basis of the Interaction between Myelin-Associated Glyoprotein and Nogo Receptor 2: Design of Novel Therapeutic Agents for Spinal Cord Injury
Advisor:
- Roman J. Giger, Ph.D.
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