Past students
| Name Sort descending | Dissertation | Program start | PhD earned | Current position |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasir Naqvi | The Effects of Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Lesions on Emotional Responses to Cigarette Smoking | Fellow addition Psychiatry, Dept. of Psychiatry, Columbia 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 | ||
| Huy Nguyen | Dystroglycan in Cerebellar Development and Disease | Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Neurology & Neurological Sciences, Stanford University | ||
| Maria F. Noterman | Cell-Specific Consequences of Cav1.2 Loss on Brain Health | Postdoctoral Associate, Dept of Pharmacology (Nelson lab), University of Vermont | ||
| Kirill Nourski | Acoustic-electric Interaction in the Auditory Nerve: Simultaneous and Forward Masking of the Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential | Research Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurosurgery, UIHC | ||
| Katrina Okerstrom-Jezewski | The impact of specific cognitive impairments on the capacity to consent to research | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, St. Ambrose University | ||
| Hans Packer | A dominant negative over expression model of mammalian MED12 function | Science Writer, Dept. of Scientific Communications, Integrated DNA Technologies | ||
| Thomas Pak | The Behavioral and Brain Phenotype of Mouse Models of Bardet-Biedl Syndrome | |||
| Stacey Peek | “Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Akirin2 Function in Maturing Neurons” | Current position:, Instructor, Department of Biology, University of Iowa | ||
| Alexandra Petrucci | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Marco Pipoly | Individual Differences in Cognitive Aging: The Cognitive Reserve Hypothesis in Executive Function | |||
| Ashley Plumb | Elucidating the role of testosterone in activity-induced muscle pain in male and female mice | |||
| Jeffrey M. Plume | ||||
| Alan M. Plumeau | ||||
| Katherine L. Proch | Characterizing the effect of serotonergic input on medullary Phox2b neurons | |||
| Benton Purnell | The effect of time-of-day and circadian phase on breathing and vulnerability to seizure-induced respiratory arrest and death | Postdoctoral Research Scholar , Dept of Neurosurgery (Boison lab), Rutgers University | ||
| Kanchna Ramchandran | The Neuropsychological Correlates of Leadership Effectiveness | Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Psychiatry, UIHC | ||
| Benjamin Rangel | ||||
| Arianna Rigon | Structural and functional neural networks underlying facial affect recognition impairment following traumatic brain injury | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University - Department of Hearing & Speech Sciences | ||
| Saul Rodriguez | Neuroprotective effects of naltrexone, a mu-opioid receptor antagonist, in juvenile mouse models of epilepsy | |||
| 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 | ||
| Jacob Rysted | Molecular Mechanisms and Functions of Mitochondrial Calcium Transport in Neurons | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa | ||
| Mitul Sarkar | Tau Association with HSP70 Chaperones | Postdoctoral Fellow , Dr. John Koland's lab, Department of Pharmacology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA | ||
| McCall E. Sarrett | To /b/ or not to /b/: Characterizing the neural timecourse of speech perception | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences (Toscano lab), Villanova University | ||
| Jakob Satz | Dystroglycan in CNS Development and Disease | Research Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory | ||
| Scott Schachtele | Life Science Content Developer, Bio-Techne, R&D Systems Inc. | |||
| Kayleen Schreiber | Who cares who’s talking? The influence of talker gender on how listeners hear speech. | Technical Communicator, Medpace Inc. | ||
| Rachel E. Schroeder | “Impacts of chronic prenatal stress on maternal and offspring outcomes, and the mitigating effects of P7C3 compounds” | Current position:, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (Taylor lab), University of Iowa | ||
| Timothy Skog | Top-down modulation of stress response patterns through the midbrain periaqueductal gray | |||
| Elizabeth Spartz | ||||
| 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 | ||
| Yishan Sun | TRP ion channels contribute to gravity sensing and spatial orientation in drosophila | Investigator, Research Dept. Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rebecca J. Taugher | Exploring the role of ASIC1A in mouse models of anxiety | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Iowa | ||
| Frida A. Teran | “Epilepsy, dietary therapies, and SUDEP: the role of serotonin and CO2 chemoreception” | Current position:, Medical Scientist Training Program, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa | ||
| Alexander (Sasha) V. Tereshchenko | Brain Structure and Function in Juvenile-Onset Huntington’s Disease | |||
| Jessica R. Thomas | Elucidating the molecular and biophysical determinants that suppress Ca2+-dependent facilitation of Cav2.2 channels | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University | ||
| Margaret (Maggie) Tish | ||||
| Dylan W. Todd | Role of the genes, NOS1 and CREB1, in a mouse model of fetal alcohol syndrome | |||
| Sokol Todi | Investigating Auditory Transduction Functions of Myosin Viia In Drosophila Melanogaster | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology & Neurology, Wayne State University | ||
| Tien Tong | “Assessment of Brain Morphology and Resting-State Functional Connectivity in Children with a Family History of Alcohol Use Disorder” | Current position:, Postdoctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York | ||
| Beth Turner Anderson | Sex, Drugs, and Driving: The Effects of Marijuana | Research Scientist, Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center, Hartford Hospital | ||
| Annie E. Tye | Cortical spreading depression upregulates calcitonin gene-related peptide expression in the ipsilateral cerebral cortex | |||
| 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 | ||
| Lavanya Vijayaraghavan | The effects of age at onset of major depressive disorder on motivation | Research Coordinator, MS Ramaiah Indic Centre for Ayurved & Integrative Medicine, Gokula Education Foundation | ||
| Mi Wang | ||||
| Shunguang Wei | Angiotensin II-stimulated Mitogen-activated Protein kinases Regulate the Expression of Brain Angiotensin Type 1 Receptors in Heart Failure | Assistant Research Scientist, Dept. of Internal Medicine, UIHC | ||
| Pamela Wernett | The effects of MED12 variation upon cell cycle progression and differential gene expression. | Health Science Policy Analyst, National Institutes of Health |