Past students

Name Sort descending Dissertation Program start PhD earned Current position
Mark Lobas
Yuan Lu Developmentally Regulated Role of PKA Anchoring by AKAP150 in Synaptic Plasticity Associate, Dept of Psychiatry, UIHC
Cory A. Massey
Jacob McGlashon Serotonin neurons maintain central mechanisms regulating metabolic homeostasis and are vital to thermogenic activation.
Hayley S. McLoughlin
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
Sonya Mehta
Berlin Mendez
Georgina L. Moreno
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
Kaitlin Murray
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
Kelle E. Nett
Huy Nguyen Dystroglycan in Cerebellar Development and Disease
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
Hans Packer A dominant negative over expression model of mammalian MED12 function Science Writer, Dept. of Scientific Communications, Integrated DNA Technologies
Thomas Pak
Stacey Peek
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
Sam Pierson
Marco Pipoly
Ashley Plumb
Jeffrey M. Plume
Alan M. Plumeau
Katherine L. Proch Characterizing the effect of serotonergic input on medullary Phox2b neurons
Benton Purnell
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
Adriana Rivera-Dompenciel
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
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
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
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
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
Bradley Taber-Thomas
Rebecca J. Taugher