program in neuroscience 

PhD Students in the Program in Neuroscience 

 
Senior students who have passed the Qualifying Exam and are conducting thesis research 

Michelle Avery
Jennifer Broderick
Joanna Chaurette (MD/PhD Program)
Caroline Connor (MD/PhD Program)
Shamik DasGupta - successful defense September 17, 2009
Johnna Doherty
Jamie Donnelly
Thomas Flood (MD/PhD Program)**
Yuly Fuentes Medel
Luke Gabriel
Peiyi Guo
Linzy Hendrickson*
Reina Improgo
Kimberly Kerr
Alex Koon
Ceren Korkut
Jason Lefkowitz
Sue-Wei Lin
Jennifer MacDonald (MD/PhD Program)
Lina Ni - writing thesis
Jeannette Osterloh
Paola Perrat
Edith Pfister
Jennifer Pirri
Hilary Prescott
Preethi Ramachandran - successful defense August 10, 2009
Lei Shi
Ozge Tasdemir
Elizabeth Yu (MD/PhD Program)
Jennifer Ziegenfuss

*Recipient of individual NRSA predoctoral fellowship
** 2008 recipient, National Science Foundation Fellowship Grant, East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for US Graduate Students (EAPSI) program in Japan

Students Conducting 'pre-qualifying research'

Belinda Barbagallo
Christopher Burke
Christopher Clark
Hui-Min Chen
Zhifeng Liang
JinLi Ling
Lindsey Soll

Neuroscience Program Graduates

Thomas K. Knott*  (2001)  Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Nikolaos Vlachakis  (2002)  Mentor: Charles G. Sagerstrom
John J. Crowley* (2003) Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Keith Tully*  (2004)  Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Paula L. Feinberg-Zadek  (2005)  Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Karl F. Schmidt  (2006)  Mentor: Craig F. Ferris
James Ashley  (2006)  Mentor: Vivian Budnik
Alex Keene*  (2006)  Mentor: Scott Waddell
John Heneghan  (2007)  Mentor: Ann R. Rittenhouse
Ania Busza* (MD/PhD Program)  (2007)  Mentor: Patrick Emery
Sen-Lin Lai  (2007)  Mentor: Tzumin Lee
Mandy L. Roberts-Crowley  (2007)  Mentor: Ann Rittenhouse
Alejandro Murad  (2007)  Mentor: Patrick Emery
Frederick (Al) Schroeder  (2008)  Mentor: Schahram Akbarian
Bulent Ataman  (2008)  Mentor: Vivian Budnik
Cristina Velazquez-Marrero  (2008)  Mentor: Jose Lemos
Hsien-Sung Huang  (2008)  Mentor: Schahram Akbarian
James (Jay) McNally*  (2008)    Mentor: Jose Lemos
Tora Mitra-Ganguli  (2008)    Mentor: Ann R. Rittenhouse      
Shun-Jen (Jacob) Yang (2008) Mentor: Tzumin Lee
Patricia Wynne (2008)  Mentor: Steven N. Treistman
Nikolaos Mellios (2009) Mentor: Schahram Akbarian
Yan Jiang (2009) Mentor: Schahram Akbarian
Michael Krashes* (2009) Mentor: Scott Waddell
Quan Yuan (2009) Mentor: Steven M. Reppert

*Recipient of individual NRSA predoctoral fellowship