Past students
| Name Sort ascending | Dissertation | Program start | PhD earned | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huy Nguyen | Dystroglycan in Cerebellar Development and Disease | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University | ||
| Rick Nelson | Fbx2: Novel Mechanisms for Glycoprotein Destruction and Links to Hearing and Memory | Assistant Professor, Dept. Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, University of Indiana | ||
| Nasir Naqvi | The Effects of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions on Emotional Responses to Cigarette Smoking | Fellow addition Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia University | ||
| Kaitlin Murray | ||||
| Victoria Muller Ewald | Inhibiting cocaine seeking: how the infralimbic cortex works to decrease cocaine-seeking during extinction and reinstatement | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Psychiatry (Krystal Parker lab), University of Iowa | ||
| Georgina L. Moreno | The effects of stress on decision making and the prefrontal cortex among older adults | Assistant Professor, University of Houston-Clear Lake, Department of Psychology University of Houston-Clear Lake, Department of Psychology | ||
| Berlin Mendez | ||||
| Sonya Mehta | ||||
| Matthew McNeill | An investigation of pigmentation and motility defects in zebrafish transient receptor potential melasatin 7 mutant embryos | Bioinformatics Scientist, Dept. Product Development, Integrated DNA Technologies | ||
| Hayley S. McLoughlin | MicroRNA Regulation of Central Nervous System Development and Their Species-Specific Roles in Evolution. | Post-doc, University of Michigan Health System, Dept of Neurology | ||
| Jacob McGlashon | Serotonin neurons maintain central mechanisms regulating metabolic homeostasis and are vital to thermogenic activation. | |||
| Cory A. Massey | 5-HT Neurons and CO2 Chemoreception: Effects Of Anesthetics, Development, and Genetic Background | Postdoc, Jeff Noebels Lab, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX | ||
| Yuan Lu | Developmentally Regulated Role of PKA Anchoring by AKAP150 in Synaptic Plasticity | Associate, Dept of Psychiatry, UIHC | ||
| Mark Lobas | Novel roles for the gamma-protocadherines in the choroid plexus | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Physiology, UCLA | ||
| Guanghao (Max) Liu | Investigating the effects of Tau-Fyn interaction in healthy and disease states of the brain | |||
| Gumei Li | CNS Gene Therapy for lysosomal storage disease | Commissioner Fellow, FDA | ||
| Chad Leugers | A novel function for microtubule associated protein Tau in growth factor-induced MAPK signaling | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biology and Chemistry, Morningside College | ||
| Ryan Lee | ||||
| Jihye Lee | Effects of K and Ca channel mutations on synaptic function and growth at Drosophilia larval neuromuscular junctions | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Oral Pathology, School of Dentistry, Pusan National Univ, Yangsan-Si Korea | ||
| Jessica K. Lee | Fronto-Striatal Circuitry in Children at Risk for Huntington's Disease | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, School of Kinesiology | ||
| Arianna Lark | The roles of a unique g-protein coupled dual receptor for dopamine and steroids in neuronal physiology and behavior | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Virginia Commonwealth University - Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology | ||
| Kathleen Langbehn | ||||
| Jake C. Kurczek | Hippocampal contributions to language: an examination of referential processing and narrative in amnesia | Assistant Professor, Loras College - Department of Psychology | ||
| Abhay Kumar | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurology, St. Louis University | |||
| Christopher Kovach | Making Sense of Eye Movements: A Generalized Linear Modeling Framework | Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Neurology, UIHC | ||
| Tim Koscik | Social Inference and the Evolution of the Human Brain | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Toronto | ||
| Sean Kolbu | ||||
| Michael Koenigs | A Novel Role for Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex in Emotion and Decision-making: Lesion Studies of Moral Judgment, Economic Choice, and Brand Preference | Assistant Professor, Dept of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin - Madison | ||
| Nathaniel B. Klooster | “"The hippocampus and semantic memory beyond acquisition: A lesion study of hippocampal contributions to the maintenance, updating, and use of remote semantic memory"” | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Pereleman School of Medicine - Center for Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
| Hannah Klein de Licona | Congenital LCM virus: Mechanism of brain disease in a rat model of congenital viral infection | Resident, Dept. of Neurology, UIHC | ||
| Myung-Jun Kim | Regulation Of Developmental Transitions By Ppk1-Expressing Sensory Neurons in Drosophila Larvae: A Role For Ros As A Developmental Cue | Postdoctoral Associate, College of Biological Sciences, Univ of Minnesota | ||
| Sahib Khalsa | The Effect of Medication on Awareness and Regulation of Internal Body States | Director of Clinical Studies, Laureate Institute for Brain Research | ||
| James Kent | Statistical Comparison of Methods Measuring Context Dependent Functional Connectivity | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Psychology (Tal Yarkoni lab), University of Texas - Austin | ||
| Jenna Kelly | ||||
| Ryan Kelley | Neural representations of cognitive control and speech in the subthalamic nucleus | |||
| Megan Keiser | Gene Therapies for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania | ||
| Austin B. Keeler | Branching out by sticking together: Elucidating mechanisms of gamma-protocadherin control of dendrite arborization | Research Associate, Unviersity of Virginia, College & Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - Department of Biology | ||
| Amy Jongeling | Ramifications of Persistent Pain for the Action of Opioids in the Locus Coeruleus | Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurological Institute, Columbia University | ||
| Shane Johnson | An analysis of prefrontal cortex pathways and their assembly of stress coping responses | Postdoctoral Associate of Neuroscience, Dept of Psychiatry, Weill Cornell Medicine | ||
| Unni Jensen | Senior Portfolio Manager, Dept of Research Data & Service, Thomason Reuters | |||
| Tyron Jensen | ||||
| Frank J. Jareczek | Mechanistic Bases for the Adverse Interaction of Nicotine and Chronic Pain | Resident, Neurological Surgery - Penn State Milton Hershey Medical Center | ||
| Thomas D. James | Discrete IP3 signaling requirements underlie acute and chronic forms of homeostatic synaptic plasticity | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa | ||
| Atulya Iyengar | An integrative analysis of neuronal hyperexcitability, central pattern generation and aberrant motor behavior through the lens of drosophila neurogenetics | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of Iowa, Department of Biology, Wu Lab | ||
| Ana Hutton Kehrberg | Neuronal Nitric Oxide Protects the Developing Cerebellum against Alcohol-induced Functional and Cellular Deficits | |||
| Xin L. Huang | ||||
| Nicholas R. Holland | ||||
| Mark Hoegger | ||||
| Kelsey Heslin | "Flexible timing in the rat medial frontal cortex and cerebellum" | Current position:, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Mount Sinai University | ||
| Michael Hernandez |