Current Students

Student	Program	Advisor	Year in Program	Interests
Robert D. Ambrosini Manhattan College	BME	Walter G. O'Dell, PhD	Med 3	Automatic detection of lesions in MRI brain scans
Brandon Bader	TBD	TBD	Med 2
Abdallah Y. Bitar Canisius College	Chemistry	Alison J. Frontier, Ph.D.	Med 3	Combinatorial chemistry, organic synthesis, drug design
Adrianne Chesser Carleton College	TBD	TBD	Med 2	Mitochondrial function as a function of impaired fission and fusion in a cellular model of Parkinson’s disease.
Amit Kumar Chowdhry Cornell University	TBD	TBD	Med 1	Statistical methods for epidemiology and clinical research
Andrew George Cox Southern Nazarene University	TBD	TBD	Med 1	IMV
Qi NanNan Cui University of Arizona	NBA	William E. O'Neill, Ph.D. Gary D. Paige, M.D., Ph.D.	Med 3	Auditory and Visual Integration and Plasticity
Debbie Dao University of Southern California	Pathology	Regis O'Keefe, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 4	Signaling pathways involved in anabolic and catabolic processes in bone and their relation to osteoarthritis.
Danielle DeCampo University of Notre Dame	NBA	Julie L. Fudge, M.D.	Grad 1	Functional plasticity in neuronal circuits, effects of stress on neuronal circuits involved in mood disorders
Laura DiChiacchio University of California, Irvine	BCMB	David H. Mathews, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 1	Secondary RNA structure predictions using dynamic programming algorithms
Adam Christopher Dziorny Johns Hopkins University	BME	Anne E. Luebke, Ph.D. Joseph P. Walton, Ph.D.	Med 3	Auditory Development Insults and Windows of Rescue
Katherine Eisenberg Princeton University	Epidemiology	Edwin Van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., M.Sc.	Med 4	Lead poisoning in refugee children
Yasser Elshatory University of Rochester	IGPN	Lin Gan, Ph.D.	Med 4	Transcriptional regulation of interneuron differentiation and neurotransmitter phenotype.
Youssef Farhat University of California, Irvine	TBD	TBD	Med 2
Vincent Fong Lehigh University	IMV	Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.	Grad 4	Conditionally replicating adenovirus
Laura Fornarola University of Rochester	PharmPhys	Robert S. Freeman, Ph.D.	Grad 2	Mechanisms of neuronal cell death
Richard Gaines Temple University	Pathology	Regis O'Keefe, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 1	Identification of ATF4 expression and signaling in mesenchymal chondropro-genitors and immature chondrocytes during fracture repair.
Alison Gaylo Bucknell University	TBD	TBD	Med 1
Candace D. Gildner University of Rochester	BME	Denise C. Hocking, Ph.D.	Grad 5	Tissue engineering
Natasha Golub College of William and Mary	Epidemiology	Edwin Van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., M.Sc.	Grad 1	Epidemiology
James M. Hart Alfred University	Chemistry	Douglas H. Turner, Ph.D.	Med 4	NMR experiments to improve the accuracy of RNA secondary structure predictions
Michael Simon Jacob University of California, Berkeley	NBA	Charles J. Duffy, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 3	Cognitive neuroscience and contextual influences on visual motion processing
Conan Kinsey Bucknell University	Genetics	Hartmut Land, Ph.D.	Med 3	Cooperative changes in gene expression via oncogenic ras and mutant p53 transformation, and the role of these cooperatively regulated genes in cancer.
Sarita Anisha Kishore Wellesley College	NBA	Charles J. Duffy, M.D., Ph.D.	Med 4	Influence of visual motion cues in response
Anat Kohn University of Rochester	Genetics	Matthew J. Hilton, Ph.D.	Grad 2	The role of Notch signaling in the differentiation and maturation of chondrocytes during endochondral bone formation.
Jonathan Langdon SUNY Stonybrook	TBD	TBD	Med 2
Rialnat Lawal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	TBD	TBD	Med 2
Susan Sojung Lee Pomona College	IGPN	Loisa Bennetto, Ph.D.	Grad 4	Autism, fMRI, mirror neurons, imitation, language
Kevin Makino Oberlin College	HSR	Peter J. Veazie, Ph.D.	Grad 5	Quality of life / burden of disease, mental health epidemiology, public health and policy
Daniel Marker Clarkson University	IGPN	Harris A. Gelbard, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 2	Neuro-inflammation
Rebekka Matheson Brigham Young University	NBA	Suzanne N. Haber, Ph.D.	Grad 1	Neuroanatomy of Reward Systems
Marlene T. Mathews University of Maryland	PharmPhys	Bradford C. Berk, M.D., Ph.D.	Med 4	Cardiovascular signal transduction
Evan McConnell University of Rochester	TBD	TBD	Med 1	Deep brain stimulation, movement and cerebrovascular disorders
Kofi Mensah University of Rochester	IMV	Edward M. Schwarz, Ph.D.	Med 3	Osteoimmunology
David Meoli Dartmouth College	PharmPhys	R. James White, M.D., Ph.D.	Med 3	Vascular biology/pulmonary hypertension
Michael James Moravan Clarkson University	NBA	M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D. John A. Olschowka, Ph.D.	Med 3	The role of IL-1 in the effects of gamma radiation on the central nervous system.
Tristan Nicholson University of Washington Seattle	TBD	TBD	Med 2
Nancy Ann Oberheim Bush Dartmouth College	IGPN	Maiken Nedergaard, M.D., DMSc	Med 4	Glial cell biology
Keith Olsen Williams College	IMV	Patricia Sime, M.D.	Grad 3	The role of PPAR-gamma and tissue transglutaminase in the pathogenesis of pulmonary fibrosis
Alexander T. Pearson Cornell University	Statistics	Derick Peterson, Ph.D.	Med 4	Variable selection in high variable number-to-observation ratio settings using evolutionary paradigm algorithms for censored survival time data
Scott A. Peslak University of Scranton	Pathology	James Palis, M.D.	Grad 2	Temporal kinetics of erythroid progenitors, precursors, and products in peripheral blood and bone marrow of irradiated mice.
Andrew Pistner Northwestern University	PharmPhys	Burns C. Blaxall, Ph.D.	Grad 1	Molecular mechanisms of heart failure
Rebecca L. Porter University of Rochester	Pathology	Laura Calvi, M.D.	Grad 3	Effects of prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) on hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in mice
Salvatore Priore SUNY Geneseo	Chemistry	Douglas H. Turner, Ph.D.	Grad 2	Identifying medically important RNA secondary structures in Influenza A virus and other systems that would provide ideal targets for therapeutic interventions
Imran Punekar Villanova University	NBA	Jonathan Mink, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 2	Movement disorders, specifically in Deep Brain Stimulation recipients suffering from Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases.
Phillip Rappold Cornell University	IGPN	Kim Tieu, Ph.D.	Grad 1	Neurodegenerative diseases
Chris Richardson Brigham Young University	IMV	Ignacio Sanz, M.D.	Grad 5	B-cell tolerance and autoimmunity
Laurie Robak Canisus College	IGPN	Roman J. Giger, Ph.D.	Med 4	Mechanisms of axon guidance
Danny A. Rogers Brigham Young University	NBA	Nina F. Schor, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 3	NGF signaling pathways and looking at ways to target this pathway in the treatment of neuroblastoma
Drew Scoles University of Rochester	TBD	TBD	Med 2
Aisha Siebert Dartmouth College	TBD	TBD	Med 1
Jharon Silva City University of New York	IMV	Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.	Med 2	Role of prostatic acidic phosphatase (PAP) degradation in HIV infectivity
Adam Simning Pomona College	Epidemiology	Edwin Van Wijngaarden, Ph.D., M.Sc.	Grad 3	Neurological Diseases, Psychiatry, and Oncology
Andrew Soroka Princeton University	OPT	TBD	Med 1
Mercedes Szpunar Loyola University Chicago	Pathology	Edward Brown, Ph.D.	Grad 3	Women's and developmental health, and their environmental influences
Ana Tablante Wellesley College	PharmPhys	Mark Noble, Ph.D.	Grad 4	Susceptibility of brain cancer stem cells to antioxidants
Joanna Touger Williams College	IMV	Stephen Dewhurst, Ph.D.	Grad 2	Effects of PAP on HIV infectivity
Edward Vuong New York University	Genetics	Douglas Portman, Ph.D.	Grad 3	Developmental defects
Jonas Wilson-Leedy University of Idaho	TBD	TBD	Grad 1
Ethan Winkler University of Southern California	IGPN	Berislav Zlokovic, M.D., Ph.D.	Grad 1	Alzheimer's disease
Michael Dacheng Wu Carnegie Mellon University	NBA	M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D. John A. Olschowka, Ph.D.	Grad 3	Neuroinflammation

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Current Students