Students

The Neuroscience Program at the University of Rochester recruits and matriculates the highest quality students from around the United States and from all parts of the world. They participate in a rigorous neuroscience curriculum, attend national and international meetings, and contribute to cutting edge research. Many of our students have published manuscripts in high profile international journals and present abstracts at a host of large and small scientific meetings. In addition, our students participate as members of the curriculum, admissions and colloquium committees, and annually present their ongoing research to fellow students and to the neuroscience community as a whole.

The GEBS summer scholars program is designed for Undergraduate students interested in the Ph.D. degree in the Biological or Biomedical Sciences and students with a potential interest in attending graduate school at the University of Rochester. Students choose from a list of mentors and fill out an application. More information can be found on the GEBS summer scholars program homepage.

The following students are our Summer Scholars for 2008:

• Jennifer Choudri, University of Rochester

  Mentor: James Ison, Ph.D.

  Title: The Precedence Effect in mice, demonstrated in the inhibitory effect of reversing the order of tones and band noise within pairs from two speakers on the startle reflex; and in humans, using adaptive psychoacoustics to assess cross-spectral factors

• Alice Coutinho, San Diego Mesa College

  Mentor: Anne Luebke, Ph.D.

  Title: Protein-Protein Interactions Separately Control CGRP Receptor Signaling and Trafficking

• Sheena Czipri, Bucknell University

  Mentor: Edward Freedman, Ph.D.

  Title: Response of the Vestibulo-ocular Reflex During Gaze Shifts: Generating Expectation of Head Perturbation in Rhesus Monkey

• Wilfredo Garcia, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras

  Mentor: Jean Bidlack, Ph.D.

  Title: Glycopeptide Derivatives of d-Selective Compounds Show Affinity and Selectivity for the d Opioid Receptor

• Courtney Grayson, Clarkson University

  Mentor: M. Kerry O’Banion, M.D., Ph.D. .

  Title: Radiation inhibits neurogenesis through a cyclooxygenase-1 dependent mechanism

• Brendan Guercio, University of Rochester

  Mentor: Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

  Title: Influence of Age on Human Sound Localization

• Tina Jensen, SUNY Geneseo

  Mentor: Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., DMSc.

  Title: CD73-Mediated Adenosine Production in the Brain is Increased Following LPS Injection

• Caressa Lietman, Rochester Institute of Technology

  Mentor: David Pearce, Ph.D.

  Title: Ers1p may interact with the V-ATPase in a cystinosis model

• Eva Noble, University of Pennsylvania

  Mentor: Lizabeth Romanski, Ph.D.

  Title: Projections from Visual Temporal Lobe Regions to Ventral Prefrontal Cortex Underlie Face Processing

• Lizbeth Nuñez, CUNY Queens College

  Mentor: Douglas Portman, Ph.D.

  Title: Modulators of polycystins and their effects in male mating behavior

• Santosh Pudasaini, Saint Peter’s College

  Mentor: Harris Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D.

  Title: Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3 beta (GSK-3ß) inhibition prevents up-regulation of dopamine transporter (DAT) surface expression by the HIV neurotoxins platelet-activating factor (PAF) and HIV-transactivating factor (Tat)

• Jacqueline Tibbett, SUNY Brockport

  Mentor: David Rempe, M.D., Ph.D..

  Title: Impact of Hypoxia on axonal outgrowth

• Baouyen Tran, San Francisco State University

  Mentor: Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D.

  Title: IFN-y inhibits OPC proliferation by down-regulating the PDGF-aR

• Odaelys Walwyn, University of Rochester Prep Program

  Mentor: Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.

  Title: Improved Influenza Vaccine Approach Using Bacteriophage Lambda

• Zhe (Kitty) Xu, The City College of New York

  Mentor: Gary Paige, M.D., Ph.D.

  Title: Influence of Auditory and Visual Distraction on Spatial Localization in Young and Elderly Adults