July 1, 2024 – June 30, 2025
High-throughput dissection of circuit alterations during the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease
Zijian Zhang, PhD
Advisor: Dmitry Velmeshev, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
July 1, 2023 – June 30, 2024
Role of Müller glia in the inherited neurodegenerative CRB1-associated disease
Ekta Mayur Dembla, PhD
Advisor: Jeremy Kay, PhD
Department of Neurobiology and Ophthalmology
2022-2023
Interneuron mediation of reward-based learning in the cerebellar cortex
Marie Hemelt, PhD
Advisor: Court Hull, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2021-2022
Discovering the Astrocytic Compartment of Dopaminergic Synapses in Health and PD
Nimrod Elazar, PhD
Advisor: Cagla Eroglu, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
2020-2021
Muscarinic-type 2 acetylcholine receptor expression and distribution in macaque early vision; evaluating a candidate model species for Alzheimer’s Disease
Juliane Krueger, PhD
Advisor: Anita Disney, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
Uncovering the role of Rho-GTPase in brain development and neural disorders
Jing Liu, PhD
Advisor: Debra Silver, PhD
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
2019-2020
Real-Time Functional Characterization of Neural Circuits
Anne Draelos, PhD
Advisor: John Pearson, PhD
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
2018-2019
Role of RNA-binding proteins in neural stem cell biology and neurodegeneration
Fernando Alsina, PhD
Advisor: Debra Silver, PhD
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
2017-2018
Understanding sleep disturbance in Alzheimer’s disease
Luping Yin, PhD
Advisor: Fan Wang, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2016-2017
Modulating newborn neuron intrinsic activity for functional integration after injury
Elena Wei Adlaf, PhD
Advisor: Chay T. Kuo, MD, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
2015-2016
The Role of Retinal Ganglion Cells in Controlling Astrocyte and Blood Vessel Development
Matthew O’Sullivan, PhD
Advisor: Jeremy Kay, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
Mechanisms of adaptive and aberrant plasticity in cortical basal ganglia circuits
Timothy Warren, PhD
Advisor: Richard Mooney, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2014-2015
Songbirds as a model to explore communication deficits in Huntington’s disease
Masashi Tanaka, PhD
Advisor: Richard Mooney, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2013-2014
A high-throughput ballistic screen for genes mediating mechanical nociception in Drosophila
Melissa Christianson, PhD
Advisor: W. Daniel Tracey, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology
2012-2013
Understanding Activity Control of Neural Stem Cell Division
Ryan O. Andersen, PhD
Advisor: Chay T Kuo, MD, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
Sigma virus as a tool for mapping synaptic connectivity in the Drosophila nervous system
Andrew Bellemer, PhD
Advisor: W. Daniel Tracey, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology
2011-2012
Molecular Imaging of Synaptic Signaling Deficits in Fragile-X Neurons
Thomas M. Newpher, PhD
Advisor: Scott H. Soderling, PhD
Department of Cell Biology
2010-2011
Neural basis of empathy and its dysfunction in neuropsychiatric disorders
Ken Honjo, PhD
Advisor: W. Daniel Tracey, PhD
Department of Anesthesiology
Identification and characterization of novel nociception genes
Steve W. C. Chang, PhD
Advisor: Michael L. Platt, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2009-2010
A Rab11-FIB2 effector binding domain is required for dendritic spine exocytosis
Angela M. Mabb, PhD
Advisor: Michael D. Ehlers, MD, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2008-2009
Regulation of the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (Gene, spastin, and its Neuronal Microtubule Severing Function
Emily F. Ozdowski, PhD
Advisor: Nina T. Sherwood, PhD
Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy
2007-2008
Involvement of P13K-centaurin-al-Ras-ERK signaling in the formation of abnormal dendritic spines in Alzheimer’s disease
Erzsebet M. Szatmari, PhD
Advisor: Ryohei Yasuda, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2006-2007
Actin cytoskeleton and epileptogenesis
Georgia M. Alexander, PhD
Advisor: James O. McNamara, MD
Department of Neurobiology
2005-2006
Synapsins and BDNF Regulation of Synaptic Transmission in a Genetic Model of Schizophrenia
Qing Cheng, MD, PhD
Advisor: George J. Augustine, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2004-2005
Mechanisms of Catecholamine Release in the Midgestation Fetus
Margie A. Ream
Advisor: Donna M. Chikaraishi, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the Formation of Neuronal Cholinergic Synapses
Shengli Zhao, MD, PhD
Advisor: Guoping Feng, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2003-2004
The Role of TrkB in Regulating Neuronal Degeneration in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy
Steven C. Danzer, PhD
Advisor: James O. McNamara, MD
Department of Neurobiology
2002-2003
Postsynaptic Assembly of Neuronal Cholinergic Synapses
Michael Joseph Parker, PhD
Advisor: Guoping Feng, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2001-2002
Mechanisms Regulating the Formation of Neuronal Cholinergic Synapses
Paul W. Young, PhD
Advisor: Guoping Feng, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
2000-2001
CNS Axonal Regeneration is Influenced by Embryonic Proteins
Ketan R. Bulsara, MD
Advisor: J.H. Pate Skene, PhD
Department of Neurobiology
