PhD recipients
Daniel Soppet, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Molecular Technology, National Institutes of Health
- Email: soppetdr@mail.nih.gov
Faculty advisor: Mark Willard, PhD
Dissertation (1989): Analysis of a polymorphism of the high molecular weight neurofilament polypoptide in rabbits
Matthew Thimgan, PhD
Associate Professor and Director, Laboratory of Sleep Biology, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Email: thimgan@mst.edu
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
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
Jue Xie, PhD
Research Fellow, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR)
Faculty advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD
Dissertation (2017): Neuronal reorganization in the orbitofrontal cortex underlying economic decisions in different behavioral contexts
Postdoctoral fellow: 2017-2018
Eric Yttri, PhD
Eberly Family Career Development Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, PhD
Dissertation (2011): Specific roles of Macaque parietal regions In making saccades and reaches
Postdoctoral fellow, 2011-2012