Past students
| Name | Dissertation | Program start Sort ascending | PhD earned | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kaitlin Murray | ||||
| Madeliene Stump | The Role of Brain PPARγ in Regulation of Energy Balance and Glucose Homeostasis | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Iowa, Carver College of Medicine, Department of Dermatology | ||
| Annie E. Tye | Cortical spreading depression upregulates calcitonin gene-related peptide expression in the ipsilateral cerebral cortex | |||
| Michael V. Freedberg | Examining the effects of reward and punishment on incidental learning | Post-doctoral Fellow, HJF, CNRM Neuroplasticity Project NIH | ||
| Jacob McGlashon | Serotonin neurons maintain central mechanisms regulating metabolic homeostasis and are vital to thermogenic activation. | |||
| 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 | ||
| Katherine L. Proch | Characterizing the effect of serotonergic input on medullary Phox2b neurons | |||
| Xin L. Huang | ||||
| Jessica R. Thomas | Elucidating the molecular and biophysical determinants that suppress Ca2+-dependent facilitation of Cav2.2 channels | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University | ||
| Amanda M. Benavides | Early Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants: Visual Working Memory, Attention, & Encoding Speed | |||
| Kelsey L. Whittier | G-Protein Coupled Receptor Expression in Medulloblastoma Subgroups: Identifying and Exploiting Molecular Targets | Resident, Dept. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Washington University | ||
| Jessica K. Lee | Fronto-Striatal Circuitry in Children at Risk for Huntington's Disease | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, School of Kinesiology | ||
| Ashley Akubuiro | ||||
| Ian J. DeVolder | Language and reading dysfunction in boys with isolated cleft lip and/or palate: a relationship to abnormal structural and functional connectivity in the brain | |||
| Amy M. Belfi | A neuropsychological investigation of music, emotion, and autobiographical memory | Postdoctoral Associate, Dept. of Psychology, New York University | ||
| Nicholas S. Gregory | "Why it hurts to exercise: a study of sex, acid sensing ion channels, and fatigue metabolites in the onset of muscle pain" | Resident, Dept. of Anesthesia, Washington University | ||
| Natassia V. Gaznick | "The Role of the Striatum in Impulsivity and Self-awareness: Neuropsychological and Functional Neuroimaging Approaches." | Resident, Dept. of Psychiatry, Univ, of California-San Diego | ||
| 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 | ||
| Arliss Dudley-Cash | ||||
| Matthew J. Sutterer | Plasticity and reorganization of brain networks subserving decision-making and emotion | Science and Technology Policy Fellow, National Institute of Justice - Amerian Association for the Advancement of Science | ||
| Kameko M. Halfmann | Emotion and Decision-Making in the Aging Brain | Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Norbert College, Department of Psychology | ||
| 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 | ||
| Kuan-Hua Chen | Emotion dynamics and automobile driving in normal and abnormal aging | Postdoctoral Research Scholar, University of California-Berkley - Institute of Personality and Social Research | ||
| 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 | ||
| Jake C. Kurczek | Hippocampal contributions to language: an examination of referential processing and narrative in amnesia | Assistant Professor, Loras College - Department of Psychology | ||
| 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 | ||
| Mark Hoegger | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Calvin Carter | Characterizing the role of primary cilia in neural progenitor cell development and neonatal hydrocephalus | Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Pediatrics, 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 | ||
| Rebecca J. Taugher | Exploring the role of ASIC1A in mouse models of anxiety | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Iowa | ||
| Jeffrey M. Plume | ||||
| Huy Nguyen | Dystroglycan in Cerebellar Development and Disease | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University | ||
| Bradley Taber-Thomas | A model of the neural bases of predecisional processes: the fronto-limbic information acquisition network | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University | ||
| Sonya Mehta | ||||
| Mark Lobas | Novel roles for the gamma-protocadherines in the choroid plexus | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Physiology, UCLA | ||
| Rupa Gupta Gordon | The Effects of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Damage on Interpersonal Coordination in Social Interaction | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL | ||
| Ellen Van der Plas | Social Functioning and Brain Structure in Adolescents and Young Adults with Isolated Cleft Lip and/or Palate | Postdoc, Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario | ||
| Megan Keiser | Gene Therapies for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 1 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Hematology, Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania | ||
| Kelly C. Rowe (Bijanki) | Beyond the cortex: Implications of white matter connectivity for depression, cognition, and vascular disease | Research Faculty, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine | ||
| Mi Wang | ||||
| Carissa Philippi | The Dynamic Self: Exploring the Critical Role of the Default Mode Network in Self Referential Processing | Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, Dept. of Psychological Sciences | ||
| Kara Gordon | TorsinA and Protein Quality Control | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, UCSD | ||
| Erik Asp | Is the prefrontal cortex the brain's skeptic? The neuroanatomical correlates of belief and doubt | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Hamline University | ||
| Pamela Wernett | The effects of MED12 variation upon cell cycle progression and differential gene expression. | Health Science Policy Analyst, National Institutes of Health | ||
| Tim Koscik | Social Inference and the Evolution of the Human Brain | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept of Psychology, Univ of Toronto | ||
| Kanchna Ramchandran | The Neuropsychological Correlates of Leadership Effectiveness | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Psychiatry, UIHC | ||
| Marlene Cano | Resident, Dept of Internal Medicine, UIHC | |||
| Joshua Cosman | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Psychology, Vanderbilt University | |||
| Hannah Klein de Licona | Congenital LCM virus: Mechanism of brain disease in a rat model of congenital viral infection | Resident, Dept. of Neurology, UIHC |