I am interested in understanding mechanisms underlying the cochlear efferent system through the use of animal knockout models and gene delivery techniques. Assessment techniques will include optical imaging and electrophysiological testing on both animals and human patient populations.
Education
2003 - Current: MD, PhD student, Medicine & Biomedical Engineering, University of Rochester
1999 - 2003: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
Publications
Ratnanather JT, Barta PE, Honeycutt NA, Lee N, Morris HM, Dziorny AC, Hurdal MK, Pearlson GD, Miller MI. Dynamic programming generation of boundaries of local coordinatized submanifolds in the neocortex: applications to the planum temporale. Neuroimage 2003 Sep;20(1):359-77.
Reading SAJ, Dziorny AC, Peroutka LA, Schreiber M, Gourley LM, Yallapragada V, Rosenblatt A, Margolis RL, Pekar JJ, Pearlson GD, Aylward E, Brantd J, Basset SS, Ross CA. Functional brain changes in presymptomatic Huntington's Disease. Ann Neurol 2004;55:879-83
Reading SA, Yassa MA, Bakker A, Dziorny AC, Gourley LM, Yallapragada V, Rosenblatt A, Margolis RL, Aylward EH, Brandt J, Mori S, van Zijl P, Bassett SS, Ross CA. Regional white matter change in pre-symptomatic Huntington's disease: A diffusion tensor imaging study. Psychiatry Res. 2005 Sept (In Press)
Abstracts
Reading SAJ, Dziorny AC, Peroutka LA, Schreiber M, Gourley LM, Yallapragada V, Rosenblatt A, Margolis R, Pekar JJ, Pearlson GD, Aylward E, Brandt J, Bassett SS, Ross CA. Functional Brain Changes in Pre-symptomatic Huntington's Disease. in Biol Psychiatry 2004; 55:184S
Rotations
Greg Gdowski, PhD - Summer 2004
EMG recordings of Squirrel Monkey neck muscles on exposure to translations and rotations to analyze Vestibulo-collic reflex responses.
David Pinto, PhD - Summer 2005
Experimental recordings from rat barrel cortex neurons & development of computational modeling software for classifying and analyzing experimentally recorded and stimulated neuron properties.
Honors & Awards
Tau Beta Pi Inductee, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2002.
Provost Undergraduate Research Award Recipient, Johns Hopkins University, Summer 2002. Research awarded to develop and test fMRI implementation of Stroop interference task.
Susan & James Bankard Research Award, Johns Hopkins University, Spring 2002. Research award to investigate and implement functional MRI processing into Blox image analysis software.
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, February 1998.
