PhD recipients
James Demas, PhD
Associate Professor, St. Olaf College
- Email: demas@stolaf.edu
Faculty advisor: Rachel Wong, PhD
Dissertation (2004): Cellular regulation and developmental function of retinal spontaneous activit
Chad Donahue, MD, PhD
Resident, University of Pittsburgh
- Email: donahuec@upmc.edu
Faculty advisor: David Van Essen, PhD
Dissertation (Biomedical Engineering, 2021): Cortical organization in humans and nonhuman primates: The evolution of cognitive areas and circuits
Jeffrey Donlea, PhD
Associate Professor, UCLA
- Email: JDonlea@mednet.ucla.edu
Faculty advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD
Dissertation (2010): Use-dependent plasticity regulates sleep need in Drosophila Melanogaster
Laura Duvall, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
- Email: lbd2126@columbia.edu
Faculty advisor: Paul H. Taghert, PhD
Dissertation (2012): Cell signaling components of the Drosophila Circadian pacemaker
Kathrin Engisch, PhD
Associate Professor, Wright State University
- Email: kathrin.engisch@wright.edu
Faculty advisor: Gerald Fischbach, MD
Dissertation (1990): The development of neuronal chemosensitivity does not depend on innervation or target contact
Lisa Evans Elkin, PhD
Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer, Inc.
- Email: llelkin@comcast.net
Faculty Advisor: Paul Bridgman, PhD
Dissertation (1997): The role of Myosin Va in axonal transport
Christopher Fetsch, PhD
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
- Email: cfetsch@jhu.edu
Faculty advisor: Dora Angelaki, PhD
Dissertation (2009): Neural mechanisms of multisensory cue integration for self-motion perception
Christine Gatchalian, PhD
Director, Scientific Communications, Amgen Inc.
- Email: c_gat@yahoo.com
Faculty advisor: Joshua Sanes, PhD
Dissertation (1988): Cellular and molecular changes in the connective tissue near synapses of denervated skeletal muscle
Joel Geerling, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa
- Email: joel-geerling@uiowa.edu
Faculty advisor: Arthur Loewy, PhD
Dissertation (2008) Aldosterone-sensitive neurons and salt appetite
Matthew Glasser, MD, PhD
Resident and Collaborator, Washington University
- Email: glasserm@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: David Van Essen, PhD
Dissertation (2017): Towards in vivo neuroanatomy: Tools for improving spatial localization and cortical parcellation