Graduates

Aaron Boes

Enrolled in Program: 2005
Defense Date: 3/11/2008
Thesis Project: "Neuroanatomical Correlates of Externalizing Behavior"
PhD Advisor: Peg Nopulous
Current Position: Medical Scientist Training Program

Matthew Coryell

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 7/18/2008
Thesis Project: ""A Role for the Acid-Sensing Ion Channel-1a in Anxiety and Depression-Related Behaviors'
PhD Advisor: John Wemmie

Diana Gallegos

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 4/25/2008
Thesis Project: "Learning in Alzheimer's Disease is Facilitated by Social Interaction and Common Ground"
PhD Advisor: Dan Tranel

Sahib Khalsa

Enrolled in Program: 2004
Defense Date:4/02/2008
Thesis Project: "The Effect of Medication on Awareness and Regulation of Internal Body States"
PhD Advisor: Dan Tranel
Current Position: Medical Scientist Training Program

Christopher Kovach

Enrolled in Program: 2003
Defense Date: 6/03/2008
Thesis Project: "Making Sense of Eye Movements: A Generalized Linear Modeling Framework"
PhD Advisor: Ralph Adolphs
Current Position: Medical Scientist Training ProgramEnrolled in Program: 2003

Mitul Sarkar

Enrolled in Program: 1999
Defense Date: 4/21/2008
Thesis Project: "Tau Association with HSP70 Chaperones"
PhD Advisor: Gloria Lee

Scott J. Schachtele

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 4/14/2008
Thesis Project: "Synaptogenesis in the Auditory Cortx of Hearing and Deafened Rats"
PhD Advisor: Steve Green
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Jim LDr. Jim Lokensgard's lab, Department of Infectious Disease, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Jihye Lee

Enrolled in Program: 2000
Defense Date: 04/18/2008
Thesis Project: "Effects of K and Ca channel mutations on synaptic function and growth at Drosophilia larval neuromuscular junctions"
PhD Advisor: Chun-Fang Wu
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Daniela Anghelina

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 6/19/2007
Thesis Project: "Contributions of Different T Cell Subsets to Coronavirus Neuropathology"
PhD Advisor: Stanley Perlman
Current Position:  Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Stanley Perlman, Department of Microbiology

Adrienne Benediktsson

Enrolled in Program: 2001
Defense Date: 7/5/2007
Thesis Project: "Imaging of Astrocyte Structure and the Distribution and Dynamics of GLT-1a in Organotypic Hippocampal Slice Cultures"
PhD Advisor: Michael Dailey

William W. Graves

Enrolled in Program: 2001
Defense Date: 7/14/2006
Thesis Project: "Distinguishing the Neural Bases of Lexical Access"
PhD Advisor: Tom Grabowski
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Language Imaging Laboratory, The Medical College of Wisconsin

Amy Jongeling

Enrolled in Program: 2003
Defense Date: 6/11/2007
Thesis Project: "Ramifications of Persistent Pain for the Action of Opioids in the Locus Coeruleus"
PhD Advisor: Donna Hammond

Ana Hutton Kehrberg

Enrolled in Program: 1999
Defense Date: 6/9/2006
Thesis Project: "Neuronal Nitric Oxide Protects the Developing Cerebellum against Alcohol-induced Functional and Cellular Deficits"
PhD Advisor: Nick Pantazis
Current Position: University of Kentucky, Department of Psychology

Myung Jun Kim

Enrolled in Program: 2000
Defense Date: 11/28/2006
Thesis Project: "Control of Developmental Transitions by H2O2-sensitive Multiple Dendritic Sensory Neurons in Drosophila Larvae?"
PhD Advisor: Wayne Johnson
Current Position: University of Minnesota, Department of Genetics, Cell Biology & Development

Mike Koenigs

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 6/23/2006
Thesis Project: "A Novel Role for Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Emotion and Decision-making: Lesion Studies of Moral Judgement, Economic Choice, and Brand Preference"
PhD Advisor: Dan Tranel
Current Position: NIH, Bethesda, MD

Yuan Lu

Enrolled in Program: 2001
Defense Date: 7/6/2006
Thesis Project: "Developmentally Regulated Role of PKA Anchoring by AKAP150 in Synaptic Plasticity"
PhD Advisor: Johaness Hell
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, The University of Iowa

Nasir H. Naqvi

Enrolled in Program: 2000
Defense Date: 4/28/2006
Thesis Project: "The Effects of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions on Emotional Responses to Cigarette Smoking"
PhD Advisor: Antoine Bechara
Current Position: MSPT student

Kirill V. Nourski

Enrolled in Program: 2001
Defense Date: 7/10/2006
Thesis Project: "Acoustic-electric Interaction in the Auditory Nerve: Simultaneous and Forward Masking of the Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential"
PhD Advisor: Paul Abbas
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics

Rick Nelson

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 3/22/2006
Thesis Project: “Fbx2: Novel Mechanisms for Glycoprotein Destruction and Links to Hearing and Memory”
PhD Advisor: Henry Paulson

Jakob Satz

Enrolled in Program: 1998
Defense Date: 4/18/2007
Thesis Project: "Dystroglycan in CNS Development and Disease"
PhD Advisor: Kevin Campbell

Beth Turner

Enrolled in Program: 2000
Defense Date: 11/20/2006
Thesis Project: "Sex, Drugs, and Driving: The Effects of Marijuana"
PhD Advisor: Dan O'Leary

Shunguang Wei

Enrolled in Program: 2002
Defense Date: 4/9/2007
Thesis Project: "Angiotensin II-stimulated Mitogen-activated Protein kinases Regulate the Expression of Brain Angiotensin Type 1 Receptors in Heart Failure"
PhD Advisor: Robert Felder