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Neuroscience Graduate Students

Name	Mentor	Research Interest
Junko Ariga	Jeffrey Mumm, PhD
Arnab Barik	Lin Mei, PhD
Ryan Bates	Lin Mei, PhD
Jonathan Bean	Lin Mei, PhD
Richard Fessler	Krishnan Dhandapani, PhD
Dwight Figueiredo	Lin Mei, PhD
Kristy R. Howell	Anilkumar Pillai, PhD
Stephanie Jacobs	Joseph Tsein, PhD
Donald Kimbler	Krishnan Dhandapani, PhD
Melanie King	Krishnan Dhandapani, PhD
Tien-hung Lan	Nevin Lambert, PhD
Caitlin Madigan	Lynnette McCluskey, PhD
Rebecca Nalloor	Almira Vazdarjanova, PhD	Investigating how emotional memory is encoded and processed by the brain.
Anupama Sathymurthy	Lin Mei, PhD
Erin Scott	Darrell Brann, PhD
Jessica Shields	Krishnan Dhandapani, PhD
Jeremy Sword	Sergei Kirov, PhD	Using 2 photon microscopy to look at the morphological changes in neurons after ischemic insult, such as, stroke and traumatic brain injury.
David White	Jeffery Mumm, PhD
Christina Wilson	Alvin Terry, PhD

 Alumni

 

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Kin (Annie) Lai   (defended 2010)

Mentor   
Lin Mei, PhD

Research interests
Studying how neurotrophic factors induce and stabilize CNS synapse formation. Her particular interest is the role of neuregulin-1 in CNS synapse development in interneurons

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Melissa Laird (defended 2011)

Mentor
Krishnan Dhandapani, PhD

Research Interests
Investigating the mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of traumatic brain injury.

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Nagendran Muthusamy (defended 2010)

Mentor
Clare Bergson, PhD

Research Interests
Studying purification and proteomic analysis of dopamine receptor interacting complex.

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Thakika Nagendran (defended 2010)

Mentor
Lori Redmond Hardy, PhD

Research Interests

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Kou Qin (defended 2011)

Mentor
Nevin Lambert, PhD

Research Interests
Working on the protein-interaction between G-protein Coupled Receptor and G-Protein in living cells by taking advantage of confocal microscopy, path clamping technique and other molecular biology techniques.

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Limor Raz (defended 2011)

Mentor
Darrell Brann, PhD

Research Interests
Investigating the mechanisms of estrogen signaling in the female rat's brain, as well as, exploring estrogen's neuroprotective role in an ischemic stroke model.

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Chris Risher (defended 2010)

Mentor   
Sergei Kirov, PhD

Research interests
Looking at the role of dendritic filopodia in spine formation and synaptogenesis in developing hippocampus from an ultrastructural perspective.

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Elsie Wong (Spingath) (defended 2011)

Mentor
David Blake, PhD

Research Interests
Studying how single cells in the primary visual cortex change after learning to discriminate objects.

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