PhD recipients
Andrew Meier, PhD
Postdoc, Guenther Lab, Boston University
Faculty advisor: Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Dissertation (2020): Modularity of feedback for state-dependent guidance of navigation in mouse visual cortex
Sabin Nettles, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University/
- Email: snettles@stanford.edu
Faculty advisor: Harrison Gabel, PhD
Dissertation (2022): Emerging insights into a role for Topoisomerase IIB and Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 in regulating neuronal transcription
Francesco Nodari, PhD
Clinical Research Associate, Syneos Health
- Email: nodarif@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Timothy Holy, PhD
Dissertation (2008): Sulfated steroids as natural ligands of mouse pheromone sensing neurons
Gaurav H. Patel, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
- Email: ghp2114@cumc.columbia.edu
Faculty advisors: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD (Neuroscience), Maurizio Corbetta, MD (Neurology)
Dissertation (2009): Attentional networks in Macaques
John Pruett, MD, PhD
Professor, Washington University
- Email: pruettj@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Harold Burton, PhD
Dissertation (1998): Response patterns in monkey somatosensory cortex (SII) during a passive touch roughness classification task
Vinod Rao, MD, PhD
Medical Director, West End Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Email: vinodrao@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2009): Perceptual and neural correlates of expectations
Naveen Reddy, PhD
Scientist, Epigenetics at Chroma Medicine
Faculty advisor: Azad Bonni, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2020): Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of cerebellar development and function
Andrea Gebhart Rommel, PhD
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
Anneliese Schaefer, JD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine
- Email: amschaefer@wustl.edu
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
Weikang Shi, PhD
Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
- Email: weikang.shi@yale.edu
Faculty advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD
Dissertation (2022): Causal function and bias correlation of the orbitofrontal cortex in economic choices