Alumni Archives - Page 10 of 13 - Department of Neuroscience

Vinod Rao, MD, PhD

Medical Director, West End Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital

Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD

Dissertation (2009): Perceptual and neural correlates of expectations

Director and Principal Investigator of IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University.

Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1994-2004

Scientist, Epigenetics at Chroma Medicine

Faculty advisor: Azad Bonni, MD, PhD

Dissertation (2020): Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of cerebellar development and function

Graduate Student

Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago

Faculty advisor: Paul Bridgman, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 1989-1996

Senior Investigator, Circuits, Synapses, and Molecular Signaling Section, NINDS

Faculty advisor: Gerald Fischbach, MD

Postdoctoral fellow, 1982-1985

Scientific Writer/Editor

Faculty advisor: W. Thomas Thach, MD, PhD

Dissertation (2002): The specific contributions of the posterolateral cerebellum to verbal and spatial learning in humans

Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

Faculty Member, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, 1980-1985, Department of Neuroscience, 1985-2004

Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine

Faculty advisor: Michael Nonet, PhD

Dissertation (2001): A molecular genetic analysis of synapse formation in C. elegans

Faculty advisors: Jeff Lichtman, MD, PhD and Joshua Sanes, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2001-2004

Principal Investigator, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center

Faculty advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow: 2004-2008