PhD recipients
Namiko Abe, PhD
Lead Medical Writer, Fishawack Health
- Email: abenamiko@gmail.com
Faculty Advisor: Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Dissertation (2010): Regulation of peripheral nerve regeneration by the mTOR pathway
Alison Bernstein, PhD
Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Email: bernst79@msu.edu
Faculty advisor: Karen O'Malley, PhD
Dissertation (2009): The role of PUMA in toxin models of Parkinson's disease
Jacquelyn Brown, PhD
Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt University
Faculty advisor: Paul Bridgman, PhD
Dissertation (2008): The role of growth cone myosin II and actin associated proteins in the repulsive response iduced by the guidance factor semaphorin 3A
Gonzalo Budelli, PhD
Professor, Universidad de la República
- Email: gonzalobudelli@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Salkoff, PhD
Dissertation (2013): Novel structural and physiological functions of high conductance K+ channels of the Slo family
S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD
Professor, University of California Los Angeles
- Email: scarmichael@mednet.ucla.edu
Faculty advisor: Joel Price, DPhil
Dissertation (1993): The orbital and medial prefrontal cortex of the Macaque: Anatomical parcellation and evidence for limbic, sensory and premotor integration
Steve Wohn Chul Chang, PhD
Associate Professor, Yale University
- Email: steve.chang@yale.edu
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2009): Sensorimotor transformation in the Macaque parietal reach region
Richard Cheney, PhD
Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Email: richard_cheney@med.unc.edu
Faculty advisor: Mark Willard, PhD
Dissertation (1989): Localization of fodrin in the membrane associated cytoskeleton and characterization of fodrin's interactions with putative fodrin-binding proteins
Adam Clemens, PhD
Scientist, Ascidian Therapeutics
Faculty advisor: Harrison Gabel, PhD
Dissertation (2020): Understanding the roles of DNA methylation and MeCP2 in neuronal enhancer control
Katherine Conen, PhD
Postdoc, Desrochers Lab, Brown University Dept of Neuroscience
- Email: katherine_conen@brown.edu
Faculty advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD
Dissertation (2018): Correlated variability and adaptation in orbitofrontal cortex during economic choice
Michael Dailey, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Iowa
- Email: michael-e-dailey@uiowa.edu
Faculty advisor: Paul Bridgman, PhD
Dissertation (1990): Structure and dynamics of membrane organelles of a neuronal growth cone