Alumni
Cassandra Van Dunk, PhD
Assistant Dean, Biomedical Sciences PhD Program, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Faculty advisor: Paul Gray, PhD
Dissertation (2011): Suprachiasmatic nuclei development: A characterization of transcription factors and the influence of retinal innervation and VIP signaling
William Vanderheyden, PhD
Assistant Professor, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
- Email: w.vanderheyden@wsu.edu
Faculty advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD
Dissertation (2012): The role of ERK in sleep and synaptic plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster
James Voyvodic, PhD
Associate Professor, Duke University
- Email: jim.voyvodic@duke.edu
Faculty advisor: Dale Purves, MD
Dissertation (1988) Development and regulation of dendritic geometry in the rat superior cervical ganglion
Robert Waterston, MD, PhD
Professor of Genome Sciences and of Medical Genetics, University of Washington
Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1976-2002 and Department of Genetics
Aguan Wei, PhD
Research Scientist, Seattle Children's Research Institute
Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 2004-2008
Benjamin White, PhD
Chief, Section of Neural Function, National Institutes of Health
- Email: whiteb@intra.nimh.nih.gov
Faculty advisor: Jonathan Cohen, PhD
Dissertation (1991): Structural characterization of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor using the hydrophobic photoreagent 3-(trifluoromethyl)-3-m-([125I] iodophenyl) diazirine
Leonard E. White, PhD
Associate Professor, Duke University
- Email: len.white@duke.edu
Faculty advisor: Joel Price, DPhil
Dissertation (1992): The functional anatomy of limbic status epilepticus in the rat
Robert White, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine
- Email: whiter@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2005): Spatial memory processing in cortical oculomotor centers
Rachel Wong, PhD
Professor and Chair of Biological Structure, University of Washington
Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1994-2006