Harvard University Program in Neuroscience History of Enrollment in The Program in Neuroscience November 2015 Updated each July
Harvard University Program in Neuroscience
History of Enrollment in
The Program in Neuroscience
November 2015 Updated each July
Nicholas Spitzer, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Harvard College
Entered 1966 * Defended May 14, 1969Advisor: David Po er
A Physiological and Histological Inves ga onof the Intercellular Transfer of Small Molecules
_____________Professor of Neurobiology
University of California at San Diego
Eric Frank, Ph.D.B.A., Reed College
Entered 1967 * Defended January 17, 1972Advisor: Edwin J. Furshpan
The Control of Facilita on at the Neuromuscular Junc on of the Lobster_______________
Professor Emeritus of PhysiologyTu s University School of Medicine
David Van Essen, Ph.D.B.S., California Ins tute of Technology
Entered 1967 * Defended October 22, 1971Advisor: John Nicholls
E ects of an Electronic Pump on Signaling by Leech Sensory Neurons______________
Professor of Anatomy and NeurobiologyWashington University
Albert Hudspeth, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Harvard College
Entered 1967 * Defended April 30, 1973Advisor: David Po er
Intercellular Junc ons in Epithelia_______________
Professor of NeuroscienceRockefeller University
Richard Mains, Ph.D.Sc.B., M.S., Brown University
Entered 1968 * Defended April 24, 1973Advisor: David Po er
Tissue Culture of Dissociated Primary Rat Sympathe c Neurons:Studies of Growth, Neurotransmi er Metabolism, and Matura on
_______________Professor of Neuroscience
University of Connec cut Health Center
Peter MacLeish, Ph.D.B.E.Sc., University of Western Ontario
Entered 1969 * Defended December 29, 1976Advisor: David Po er
Synapse Forma on in Cultures of Dissociated Rat Sympathe c NeuronsGrown on Dissociated Rat Heart Cells
_______________Professor and Director of the Neuroscience Ins tute
Morehouse College of Medicine
Peter Sargent, Ph.D.B.A., Amherst College
Entered 1969* Defended March 21, 1975Advisor: Zachary Hall
Transmi ers in the Leech Central Nervous System: Analysis of Sensoryand Motor Cells_______________
Professor of Cell and Tissue BiologyUniversity of California at San Francisco School of Den stry
Bruce Wallace, Ph.D.B.A., Amherst College
Entered 1969 * Defended September 27, 1974Advisor: Edward Kravitz
The Biosynthesis of Octopamine in the Nervous System of the Lobster,Homarus americanus_______________Professor Emeritus
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Joshua Sanes, Ph.D.B.A., Yale University
Entered 1970 * Defended January 15, 1976Advisor: John Hildebrand
Origin and Di eren a on of Sensory Neurons in an Insect Antenna_______________
Professor of Molecular and Cellular BiologyHarvard University
Colin Nurse, Ph.D.B.Sc., University of Western Ontario
Entered 1971 * Defended May 11, 1977Advisor: David Po er
The forma on of cholinergic synapses between dissociated ratsympathe c neurons
and skeletal myotubes in cell culture_______________
Professor of BiologyMcMaster University
Carla Shatz, Ph.D.B.A., Radcli e College
M.Phil., University College, LondonEntered 1971 * Defended March 25, 1976
Advisor: David HubelA Study of Abnormal Connec ons in the Visual System of the Siamese
Cat, a Gene c Mutant_______________
Professor of NeurobiologyStanford University
King Wai Yau, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1971 * Defended October 31, 1975Advisor: John Nicholls
Recep ve Fields, Geometry and Conduc on Block of Sensory Cells in theLeech Central Nervous System
_______________Professor of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Linda Lai Yue Chun, Ph.D.B.S., Illinois Ins tute of Technology
Entered 1972 * Defended May 9, 1977Advisor: Paul Pa erson
The Role of Nerve Growth Factor in the Development of RatSympathe c Neurons in vitro
_______________
Assistant in Molecular BiologySeed Lab, Massachuse s General Hospital
Charles Gilbert, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Amherst College
Entered 1971 * Defended July 22, 1976Advisor: David Hubel
Laminar Organiza on of Cat Visual Cortex_______________
Professor of NeurobiologyRockefeller University
Duane Edgington, Ph.D.B.S., California Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1973 * Defended July 28, 1978
Advisor: Anne StuartProper es and Distribu on of Ionic Channels in a Photoreceptor Neuron
_______________So ware Engineering Group Leader
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Ins tute
Patrick Hogan, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1973 * Defended September 29, 1983Advisor: David Po er
Expression of Markers for Pain Sensory Neurons in Cell Culture_______________
Professor, Division of Signaling and Gene ExpressionLa Jolla Ins tute for Allergy and Immunology
Crispin Weinberg, Ph.D.S.B., S.M., University of Chicago
Entered 1973 * Defended August 21, 1980Advisor: Zachary Hall
Molecular Specializa ons at Mature and Developing NeuromuscularJunc ons in Adult Rats_______________
President and FounderBiomedical Modeling, Inc.
Kathleen Buckley, Ph.D.A.B., Radcli e College
Entered 1974 * Defended October 30, 1980Advisor: Story Landis
Morphological and Func onal Studies of Synapses and Varicosi esin Cultures of Dissociated Rat Sympathe c Neurons
_______________Associate Provost for Science
Harvard University
David Ferster, Ph.D.Sc.B., Brown University
Entered 1973 * Defended October 23, 1979Advisor: David Hubel
Cor cal Mechanisms of Depth Vision in the Cat_______________Professor Emeritus
Northwestern University
Steve Hauger, Ph.D.B.s., Stanford University
Entered 1974 * Defended January 14, 1981Advisor: Edward Furshpan
The Spa al Distribu on of Sensi vity to Acetylcholine of RatSympathe c Neurons in Cell Culture
_______________Stained Glass Ar san
Margaret Livingstone, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1974 * Defended February 20, 1980
Advisor: Edward KravitzMonoamines in the Lobster: Biochemistry, Anatomy, and Possible
Func onal Role_______________
Professor of NeurobiologyHarvard Medical School
Patricia Walicke, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1975 * Defended October 11, 1979
Advisor: Paul Pa ersonRole of Calcium and Cyclic AMP in the Mechanism of the Development
E ects of Neuronal Ac vity_______________
Medical O cerNa onal Ins tute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Sue Schneps, A.M.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 1976 * Le June 1, 1980_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeJewelry Designer and Owner,
Sea and Star Designs
Leslie Timpe, Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1976 * Defended September 8, 1982Advisor: Ann Stuart
The Roles of Acetylcholine and Gamma aminobutyrin Acid in the VisualSystem of the Barnacle
_______________Adjunct Faculty
San Mateo Community College District
Paul Desan, Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1977 * Defended June 27, 1984Advisor: Simon LeVay
The Organiza on of the Cerebral Cortex of the Pond Turtle, Pseudemysscripta elegans
_______________Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Yale University School of Medicine
Thomas Schwarz, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1977 * Defended June 27, 1983Advisor: Edward Kravitz
Proctolin in the Lobster and Protein Phosphoryla onin a Lobster Muscle_______________
Professor of NeurobiologyHarvard Medical School
Allison Doupe, M.D./Ph.D.DCS, B.Sc., McGill University
Entered 1978 * Defended April 26, 1984Advisor: Paul Pa erson
Role of Glucocor coids and Growth Factors in the Development ofNeural Crest Deriva ves
_______________Deceased October 24, 2014
(Formerly Professor at University of California, San Francisco)
Jonathan Horton, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Stanford University
Entered 1978 * Defended February 16, 1983Advisor: Simon LeVay
Cytochrome Oxidase Patches: A New Cytoarchitectonic Feature_______________
Professor of OphthalmologyUniversity of California at San Francisco
Kathleen King Siwicki, Ph.D.Sc.B., Brown University
M.Phil., Cambridge UniversityEntered 1782 * Defended May 7, 1985
Advisor: Edward KravitzThe Neuropep de, Proctolin, in the Lobster Nervous System:
Cellular Distribu on of Proctolin Like An gens and Biochemical Studies ofIden ed Neurons_______________
Professor of NeurobiologySwarthmore College
Karla Kent, Ph.D.B.S., University of California at Santa Barbara
M.A., Boston UniversityEntered 1979 * Defended October 11, 1985
Advisor: John HildebrandMetamorphosis of the antennal center and the in uence of sensory innerva on
on the forma on of glomeruli in the hawk moth Manduca sexta_______________
Associate ProfessorOregon Health Sciences University
Anne Schneiderman, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1979 * Defended July 16, 1984Advisor: John Hildebrand
Postembryonic Development of a Sexually Dimorphic Sensory Pathwayin the Central Nervous System of the Sphinx Moth, Manduca Sexta
_______________Patent A orneyHarris Beach LLC
Leslie Stevens, Ph.D.A.B., University of California at BerkeleyEntered 1979 * Defended March 27, 1987
Advisor: Story LandisPostembryonic Development of a Sexually Dimorphic Sensory Pathway
in the Central Nervous System of the Sphinx Moth, Manduca Sexta_______________
Research Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Texas at Aus n
James Hue ner, Ph.D.B.S., B.A., Indiana University of PennsylvaniaEntered 1981 * Defended January 15, 1987
Advisor: Robert BaughmanProper es of Iden ed Cor cocollicular Neurons in Primary Cultures of
Rat Visual Cortex_______________
Professor of Cell BiologyWashington University School of Medicine
Susan McConnell, Ph.D.B.A., Radcli e College
Entered 1981 * Defended March 16, 1987Advisor: Simon LeVay
Fates of Transplanted Visual Cor cal Neurons_______________
Professor of BiologyStanford University School of Medicine
Dinah Sah, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1981 * Defended February 12, 1987
Advisor: David Po erSerotonin and Neuropep des in Cultured Principal Neurons of the Rat
Superior Cervical Ganglion_______________
Senior Vice President of NeuroscienceVoyager Therapeu cs
Daniel Tso, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1980 * Defended May 7, 1987Advisor: Torsten Wiesel
Connec vity and Func onal Organiza on in the Mammalian VisualCortex
_______________Associate Professor
Upstate Medical University of the State University of New York
Leonard Levin, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1982 * Defended April 28, 1988Advisor: Howard Weiner
Immune Func ons of Astrocytes_______________
Professor of NeurologyUniversity of Wisconsin—Madison
Michael Shepley, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Northeastern University
M.S.B.E., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1982 * Defended November 21, 1988
Advisor: Edward KravitzMonoclonal an body iden ca on of a 100 kDa membrane protein in
HeLa cells and human spinal cord involved in poliovirus a achment_______________
Deceased October 15, 2000(formerly Assistant Professor at SUNY Stony Brook)
David Turner, Ph.D.B.A., Northwestern University
Entered 1982 * Defended March 21, 1989Advisor: Connie Cepko
Cell Lineage in the Rat and Mouse Re nas_______________
Associate Research ProfessorUniversity of Michigan Medical School
Alfred Sandrock, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Stanford University
Entered 1981 * Defended February 12, 1987Advisor: William Ma hew
The Immunologic Iden ca on of Molecules which Promote theRegenera on of Neuronal Axons
_______________Senior Vice President and Medical O cer
Biogen IDEC, Inc.
Mary Womack, Ph.D.B.A., Northwestern University
Entered 1982 * Defended April 16, 1990Advisor: Thomas Jessell
Mechanisms Underlying Modula on of Dorsal Horn Neuronsby Substance
_______________Instructor in Math and Biology
Nashville State Community College
Junying Yuan, Ph.D.B.S., Fudan University
Entered 1981 * Defended May 9, 1989Advisor: Robert Horvitz
Gene c and Molecular Studies of Two Genes that ControlProgrammed Cell Death in the Nematode C. Elegans
_______________Professor of Cell BiologyHarvard Medical School
Ben Barres, Ph.D.S.B., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
M.D., Dartmouth Medical SchoolEntered 1983 * Defended March 1, 1990
Advisor: David CoreyElectrophysiology of White Ma er Glia
_______________Professor of Neurobiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
O o Von FranqueB.A., Yale University
Entered 1982 * Le August 24, 1984_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeEnrolled in M.D. program at Stanford University
Physician
David Frim, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard CollegeB.J.Ed., Hebrew College
Entered 1983 * Defended September 1, 1988Advisor: Mar n Moore Ede
Studies in the Structure and Regula on of the mRNA SpeciesEncoding Cor cotroping Releasing Hormone and Vasopressin
_______________Professor of Surgery and Neurology
University of Chicago School of Medicine
Timothy Laman, A.M.B.S., Hope CollegeEntered 1983
_______________
Transferred to OEB at Harvard CollegeWildlife Photojournalist, Na onal Geographic
Peggy Mason, Ph.D.B.A., Harvard College
Entered 1983 * Defended May 14, 1987Advisor: Edward Kravitz
The Intracellularyl Recorded Ac vity of Medullary Raphe NeuronsDuring a Nocicep ve Trigeminial Re ex
_______________Professor of Neurobiology
University of Chicago
Anthony Monaco, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1983 * Defended May 13, 1987Advisor: Edward Kravitz
Iden ca on and Par al Cloning of the Locus Responsefor Duchene and Becker Muscular Dystrophy
_______________President
Tu s University
E. Houston Warren, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1983 * Defended September 19, 1988Advisor: Charles Liberman
E ect of Sound Evoked Ac vity in Olivocochlear E erent Neuronson Auditory Nerve Response
_______________Associate Professor of Medical OncologyUniversity of Washington Medical School
Daniela BonafedeB.S., California Ins tute of Technology
Entered 1984 * Le July 1, 1986_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeTransferred to Yale University
Steven McIn re, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., M.S., Stanford University
Entered 1984 * Defended March 1, 1990Advisor: Robert Horvitz
A Gene c Characteriza on of GABAergic Neurotransmission and AxonalOutgrowth in the Nematode Caenorhabdi s elegans
_______________Consul ng Professor, Neurology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Laura Regan, Ph.D.B.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 1983 * Defended January 10, 1990Advisor: Bruce Bean
Calcium Currents in Freshly Dissociated Rat Purkinje and Dorsal RootGanglion Cells
_______________Dean, School of Classical Chinese Medicine
Na onal College of Chinese Natural Medicine
Carmela Abraham, Ph.D.B.Sc., Tel Aviv University
Entered 1985 * Defended January 12, 1988Advisor: Hun ngton Po er
The protease inhibitor, 1 an chymotrypsin, in brain aging and disease_______________
Professor of BiochemistryBoston University School of Medicine
John Assad, Ph.D.B.A., State University of New York at Bu aloEntered 1985 * Defended June 20, 1991
Advisor: David CoreySensory Adapta on of Vertebrate Hair Cells
_______________Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
David Lopes Cardozo, Ph.D.B.A., Concordia UniversityB.Sc., Dalhousie University
Entered 1985 * Defended June 1, 1993Advisor: David Po er
Pharmacology of Synap c Transmission in the Gold sh Sacculus_______________
Associate Dean, Graduate Student A airsDivision of Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School
Anna Wang RoeA.B., Harvard College
Entered 1984 * Le May 13, 1985_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeEnrolled in MIT and earned Ph.D. in Neuroscience
Professor of Neuroscience, Oregon Health & Sciences University
Chinfei Chen, M.D./Ph.D.B.A.S., University of Pennsylvania
Entered 1985 * Defended September 21, 1990Advisor: Peter Hess
Voltage Dependent Calcium Channels in 3T3 Fibroblasts_______________
Associate Professor of NeurologyHarvard Medical School
Sheila Nirenberg, Ph.D.B.A., State University of New York at Albany
Entered 1985 * Defended June 1, 1992Advisor: Connie Cepko
Targeted Abla on of Diverse Cell Types in the Nervous System:A Method for Blocking Cell Cell Interac ons in vivo
_______________Professor of Physiology
Cornell Weill School of Medicine
Philip Starr, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Princeton University
Entered 1985 * Defended March 20, 1989Advisor: William Sewell
Pharmacology of Synap c Transmission in the Gold sh Sacculus_______________
Professor of Neurological SurgeryUniversity of California at San Francisco Medical Center
Rudolph Tanzi, Ph.D.B.S., University of Rochester
Entered 1985 * Defended March 19, 1990Advisor: James Gusella
The Amyloid Beta Protein Precursor Gene in Familial and SporadicAlzheimer’s Disease_______________
Professor of Child NeurologyHarvard Medical School
Margaret Thompson, Ph.D.B.S., University of Michigan
Entered 1985 * Defended August 2, 1993Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
Serotonergic Neurons in the Lobster: Excitatory and Inhibitory Inputs_______________
Director, IDDRC CoreBoston Children’s Hospital
Chris an Titlow, Ph.D.B.S., California Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1985 * Defended June 8, 1992
Advisor: Marge LivingstoneAssembly of Human Monoamine Oxidase Type B (MAO B) Into the
Mitochondrial Outer Membrane:Support for a New Class of Leader Sequences
_______________
Whereabouts Unknown
Margot U erbackB.S., University of California at Los AngelesEntered 1985 * Le September 1, 1992
Advisor: Lydia Villa Komaro_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeNot employed
Wendy Weiger, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1985 * Defended February 14, 1995Advisor: Edward Kravitz
Serotonergic Neurons in the Lobster: Excitatory and Inhibitory Inputs_______________
Physician, author, wilderness guide,and environmental ac vist
Mel Feany, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1986 * Defended April 29, 1993Advisor: Kathleen Buckley and Margaret Livingstone
Molecular Analyses of Synap c Vesicle Proteins/Gene c and Molecular Studies of Drosophila Learning Mutants
_______________Professor of PathologyHarvard Medical School
Carl Fulwiler, Ph.D.B.A., Hofstra University
M.D., Washington UniversityEntered 1986 * Defended May 31, 1995
Advisor: John DowlingGene c Analysis of Re nal Development in Zebra sh
_______________Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Massachuse s Medical School
Linda Kobierski, Ph.D.B.S., Simmons College
Entered 1986 * Defended May 5, 1993Advisor: Michael Comb
Proenkephalin Gene Expression: Mechanisms of cAMP Regula on_______________
High School Science TeacherDedham Public Schools
Julie Nardone, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1986 * Defended April 20, 1993Advisor: David Po er
Site Directed Mutagenesis of a B2 Bradykinin Receptor_______________
Senior Research Scien st, Bioinforma csMetamark Gene cs, Inc.
Bradford Navia, Ph.D.B.A., M.D., Columbia University
Entered 1986 * Defended August 12, 1995Advisor: Gail Bruns
Molecular Analysis of the Region Surroundingthe X Linked Re ni s Pigmentosa (RP3) Locus in Xp21.1
_______________Whereabouts unknown
Formerly Associate Professor at Tu s University School of Medicine
Pamela Prosser FriedmanB.A., Dartmouth College
Entered 1986 * Le June 1, 1987_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeWhereabouts unknown
Allan RosenbergB.S., University of Michigan
Entered 1986 * Le September 1, 1990_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeEarned J.D. at Stanford Law School
Assistant Vice President, State Street Global Exchange
Hung Ming Chu, Ph.D.B.M., Na onal Taiwan University
Entered 1987 * Defended June 1, 1992Advisor: Michael Comb
Proenkephalin Gene Regula on: S mulus Transcrip on Coupling_______________Medical Director
Chinatown/North Beach Mental Health Clinic (San Francisco)
Elizabeth Finch, Ph.D.B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara
Entered 1987 * Defended May 31, 1994Advisor: Stan Goldin
Inositol Trisphosphate Mediated Calcium Release: Kine cs andRegula on by IP, Calcium, and ATP
_______________Whereabouts unknown
Formerly Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Emory University
Michael Gille e, M.D./Ph.D.Oxford University
Entered 1987 * Defended May 4, 1995Advisor: Raymon Dacheux
Components of Adapta on in Saccular Hair Cellsof the Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
_______________Scien st, Broad Ins tute
Instructor, Harvard Medical SchoolPhysician, Pulmonary Care Unit, MGH
Susan Lewis, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1987 * Defended June 7, 1994Advisor: Steven Hyman
Cytokine Regula n of Neuronal Gene Expression in Sympathe cNeurons and a Neuroblastoma Cell Line
_______________Grant writer and editor
Tu s University
Emily Liman, Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1987 * Defended March 31, 1992Advisor: Peter Hess
Structure and Func on of Mammalian Potassium Channels_______________
Professor of Biological SciencesUniversity of Southern California
Gordon Shepherd, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Vassar College
Entered 1987 * Defended July 27, 1993Advisor: David Corey
Components of Adapta on in Saccular Hair Cellsof the Bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
_______________Associate Professor in Physiology
Northwestern University School of Medicine
Doreen Valen ne, Ph.D.B.S., State University of New York at Stony BrookEntered 1987 * Defended February 27, 1995
Advisor: Cynthia MossSpa al Percep on and Sensorimotor Integra on: The Role of the
Superior Colliculus in the Echoloca ng Bat, Eptesicus fuscus_______________
Associate Scien c DirectorClinical Thinking/Nucleus Global
Dayao Zhao, Ph.D.M.D., Beijing Medical University
Entered 1987 * Defended October 31 1984Advisor: William Chin
Re noic Acid: Biosynthesis and Receptors_______________
Vice PresidentJanssen Pharmaceu cals (China)
Marina Chicurel, Ph.D.Universidad Nacional Autónoma de MexicoEntered 1988 * Defended May 12, 1995
Advisor: Hun ngton Po erRNA Localiza on and RNA Cytoskeletal Interac ons in Neurons
_______________Associate Director for Science
Hereditary Disease Founda on
Robin Cloues, A.M.B.A., Barnard College
Entered 1988 * Le November 1, 1991_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeTransferred to University of London PhD program
Adjunct Faculty, Regis University
Shing Chuan Hooi, Ph.D.M.B.B.S., Na onal University of SingaporeEntered 1988 * Defended March 23, 1992
Advisor: Lee KaplanNeuroendocrine Regula on of Galanin Expression
_______________Professor and Vice Dean of Educa on
Yong Loo Lin School of MedicineNa onal University of Singapore
Mark Johnson, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Amherst College
Entered 1988 * Defended July 27, 1993Advisor: David Po er
Electrophysiological and Cytochemical Proper esof Rat Mesopon ne Serotonergic Neurons in Culture
_______________Associate Professor of Neurosugery
Harvard Medical School
Tejvir Khurana, Ph.D.M.B.Bs., Delhi University
Entered 1988 * Defended August 12, 1991Advisor: Louis Kunkel
Iden ca on and Characteriza on of Dystrophin Related Protein_______________
Professor of PhysiologyUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Chung Chin Kuo, Ph.D.B.M., Na onal Taiwan University
Entered 1988 * Defended May 1, 1992Advisor: Peter Hess
Ion Permea on through L Type Calcium Channel_______________
Professor of NeurophysiologyNa onal Taiwan University, College of Medicine
Nicholas Marsh Armstrong, Ph.D.B.A., Haverford College
Entered 1988 * Defended June 1, 1994Advisor: Walter Gilbert
Re noic Acid and the Pa erning of the Zebra sh Re na and Trunk_______________Research Scien st
Kennedy Krieger Ins tute
Bruce Peters, Ph.D.B.S., Rensselaer Polytechnic Ins tute
Entered 1988 * Defended April 12, 1996Advisor: Richard Masland
Responses to Light of Starburst Amacrine Cellsin the Re na of the Rabbit
_______________Senior Scien stINDEC Systems
Sonja Potrebic, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., University of Pennsylvania
Entered 1988 * Defended February 28, 1994Advisor: Howard Fields
The Role of Serotonin in the Modula on of Nocicep onby the Rostral Ventromedial Medulla of the Rat
_______________Neurologist
Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
David Welsh, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1988 * Defended April 1, 1995Advisor: Steven Reppert
Circadian Clock Neurons in Culture_______________
Associate Professor of PsychiatryUniversity of California at San Diego School of Medicine
Cynthia WetmoreA.B., Harvard College
Entered 1988 * Le June 1, 1990_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeTransferred to Karolinska Ins tuteAssociate Professor of Pediatrics
Emory University School of Medicine
Andrew Ahn, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Columbia University
Entered 1989 * Defended May 8, 1995Advisor: Louis Kunkel
The Membrane Cytoskeleton in Muscular Dystrophy_______________
Senior Medical Advisor and Scien c LeadEli Lilly & Co.
Belinda Chang, Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1989 * Defended September 26, 1995Advisor: Naomi Pierce
Opsin Phylogeny and Evolu on_______________
Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolu onary BiologyUniversity of Toronto
Richard Chung, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1989 * Defended August 11, 1992Advisor: Bernd R. Sseizinger
P53: A Bifunc onal Transcrip onal Regulatory ProteinInac vated in Human Astrocy c Tumors
_______________Neurosurgeon
Neurosurgical Associates of Santa Barbara
Lise Heginbotham Thomas, Ph.D.B.A., Swarthmore College
M.S., University of Colorado Health Sciences CenterEntered 1989 * Defended May 12, 1993
Advisor: Roderick MacKinnonIden ca on and Molecular Characteriza on
of a Potassium Channel Pore_______________
Associate Professor of BiologyQuinnipiac University
Albert Hung, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1989 * Defended March 31, 1994Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Regula on of Expression and Processing of the b Amyloid PrecursorProtein of Alzheimer’s Disease
_______________Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Raul Krauss, Ph.D.M.Sc., Catholic University of Chile
Entered 1989 * Defended May 19, 1997Advisor: Gerald Fishbach
Studies of Nico nic Acetylcholine Receptor Gene Expressionin the Central Nervous System
_______________Co Head North America Neurology Disease Team
Vertex Pharmaceu cals
Camilo Mar nez, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., University of Southern CaliforniaEntered 1989 * Defended May 1, 1994
Advisor: Joseph MajzoubMolecular Regula on of Cor cotropin Releasing Hormone GeneExpression by the Protein Kinase A Pathway and Glucocor coids
_______________Partner
QM VEntures
Kenton Swartz, Ph.D.B.Sc., Eastern Manitoba College
M.D., Boston University School of MedicineEntered 1989 * Defended March 22, 1993
Advisor: Bruce BeanRegula on of Neuronal Ca Channels by Neurotransmi ers,
G Proteins and Kinase C_______________Senior Inves gator
Na onal Ins tute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Anne Sydor, Ph.D.B.A., University of Wisconsin
Entered 1989 * Defended June 20, 1995Advisor: Daniel Jay
The Role of Cytoskeletal Proteins Talin and Vinculinin Neuronal Growth Cone Mo lity
_______________Editorial Director, Educa onal Products
Thieme Medical Publishers
Azad Bonni, Ph.D.M.D., Queen’s University
Entered 1990 * Defended May 9, 1996Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Neurotrophic Factor Regula on of Immediate Early Gene Expression_______________
Professor of NeurobiologyWashington University School of Medicine
Rebecca Leah Cole, Ph.D.B.A., Macalester College
Entered 1990 * Defended July 17, 1996Advisor: Steven Hyman
Neurotransmi er Regula on of CRE– and AP 1 MediatedGene Expression in Rat Striatum
_______________Research Scien st
Merck Research Laboratories
Paul Jackson, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1990 * Defended June 29 1995Advisor: Larry Benowitz
VSOAC: A Volume Sensi ve Anion Channel with a Novel Func on_______________
NeurosurgeonPalo Alto, California
Roger Knowles, Ph.D.B.S., United States Military Academy
Entered 1990 * Defended December 19, 1995Advisor: Kenneth Kosik
Transloca on of RNA Granules in Living Neurons_______________
Professor of NeuroscienceDrew University
Inge KnudsonB.A., Smith College
M.S., University of New HampshireEntered 1990 * Le May 6, 1993
_______________Withdrew without taking degree
Associate Scien st, Massachuse s Eye and Ear In rmary
Mary Morris Saba ni, Ph.D.B.A., Agnes Sco CollegeM.D., Columbia University
Entered 1990 * Defended July 31, 1997Advisor: Chuck Weitz
Entertainment of the Mammalian Circadian Clock: Iden ca onof Light Induced Genes in the SCN
_______________Obstetrician
Massachuse s General Hospital
Caroline Overly, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1990 * Defended May 7, 1996Advisor: Peter Hollenbeck
Organelle Mo lity and Endocy c Pathways in Cultured Neurons_______________
Community VolunteerSea le, Washington
Alfred Roca, Ph.D.B.A., Cornell University
B.S., University of WyomingEntered 1990 * Defended August 7, 1996
Advisor: Steven ReppertThe Mouse Mel1a Melatonin Receptor Gene
_______________Associate Professor of Animal Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Karin Sorra, Ph.D.B.Sc., Dalhousie University
Entered 1990 * Defended November 26, 1996Advisor: Kristen Harris
Synapse Structure, Func on and Plas city in Hippocampal Area CA1_______________
President and Chief Scien c O cerArroscience, Inc.
Ashley Bruce, Ph.D.A.B., Brown University
Entered 1991 * Defended August 22, 1997Advisor: Mar n Shankland
Characteriza on of an orthoden cle Homolog in the Leechand Inves ga on of Ectopic Gene Express Techniques
_______________Associate Professor of Cell Biology
University of Toronto
Anne e Jenner, Ph.D.B.A., Mt. Holyoke College
Entered 1991 * Defended April 28, 1998Advisor: Gordon Sherman
The Connec vity of Ectopic Neurons in the Neocortex and their E ectson Neuronal Size in the Thalamus: Implica ons for Developmental
Dyslexia_______________
Adjunct Assistant ProfessorSUNY Upstate Medical Center
Stephen Macknik, Ph.D.B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz
Entered 1991 * Defended September 20, 1996Advisor: Marge Livingstone
The Physiology and Percep on of Visibility and Visual Masking_______________
Professor of Ophthalmology, SUNY Downstate Medical CenterColumnist for Scien c American
Phillip Schwartz, Ph.D.B.S., Columbia University
M.Sc., The Weizmann Ins tuteEntered 1991 * Defended June 17, 1998
Advisor: Rosalind SegalNeurotrophins in the Regula on of Cerebellar Development
_______________Chief Execu ve O cer
Entera Bio Ltd.
Patrick Senatus, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1991 * Defended June 16, 1997Advisor: David Po er
Electrophysiological and Cytochemical Proper es ofRat Neostriatal Neurons in Microculture
_______________
NeurosurgeonConnec cut
Lawrence Sincich, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1991 * Defended May 13, 1999Advisor: Gary Blasdel
Local Circuits in Primary Visual Cortex_______________
Assistant Professor of Vision ServicesUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham School of Optometry
Deborah Sodickson Cohen, Ph.D.B.A., Wesleyan University
Entered 1991 * Defended January 8, 1997Advisor: Bruce Bean
Control of Inwardly Rec fying Potassium Channels and VoltageDependent Calcium Channels
by G Protein Coupled Transmi er Receptors in Hippocampal Neurons_______________
Homemaker
Mark Tramo, Ph.D.B.A., Yale University
M.D., Cornell UniversityEntered 1991 * Defended November 10, 1998
_______________Neurologist
Lecturer, U.C.L.A. School of Music
Cathy WaldmanB.A., Arcadia University
Entered 1991 * Withdrew without degree August 31, 1992_______________Speech Pathologist
Deborah Watson, Ph.D.B.A., Mills College
Entered 1991 * Defended April 11 1997Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
E ects of the HCHWA D Muta on on bAPP Processing, Heterogeneity ofAb Deposits, and Heparin/HSPG Binding: Implica ons for Alzheimer’s
Disease_______________
Research Assistant Professor of NeurosurgeryUniversity of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Anne West, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Cornell University
Entered 1991 * Defended December 2, 1996Advisor: Kathleen Buckley
Protein Targe ng in Neurons_______________
Associate Professor of NeurobiologyDuke University
Robert WhorfB.S., University of New Hampshire
Entered 1991 * Le September 1, 1993_______________
Enrolled in University of Rochester School of MedicineOncologist, Florida
Sanjay Aggarwal, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Johns Hopkins University
Entered 1992 * Defended June 3, 1996Advisor: Roderick MacKinnon
Iden ca on of the Voltage Sensor in the Voltage Ac vated PotassiumChannel
_______________Pediatrician
Bal more, Maryland
Marc Awobuluyi, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1992 * Defended June 10, 1997Advisor: Stuart Lipton
Transla onal Control of N Methyl D Aspartate Subunit 1 (NMDAR1)Expression
_______________Assistant Clinical Professor in Neuroradiology
University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
Kris na Wietasch Becker, Ph.D.B.A., M.D., Ruhr University
Entered 1992 * Defended March 21, 1997Advisor: Gerald Fischbach
Regula on of Neuronal Nico nic Acetylcholine Receptorsin the Interpeduncular Nucleus
_______________Patent A orney
Germany
Michael Belliveau, Ph.D.B.S., University of Michigan
Entered 1992 * Defended September 9, 1998Advisor: Connie Cepko
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Regula on of Cell Fate Choices in the VertebrateNeural Re na
_______________Patent A orney and Partner
Clark & Elbing LLP
Solange Brown, M.D./Ph.D.Princeton University
Entered 1992 * Defended June 7, 1999Advisor: Richard Masland
Local Circuits in the Re na: Spa al Sensi vity, Contrast Adapta onand Direc on Selec vity of Re nal Ganglion Cells
_______________Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Yu Ju ChenB.S., Na onal Taiwan University
Entered 1992* Le January 1, 1995_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeAdjunct Professor of Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry
Na onal Taiwan University
Donnella Green Comeau, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Amherst College
Entered 1992 * Defended September 19, 1997Advisor: Stephen Cannon
Func onal Consequences of Sodium Channel Muta onsin Human Neuromuscular Disease
and a Novel Mechanism for Acetazolamide Therapy_______________
RadiologistCumberland, Rhode Island
Amy Malick, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1992 * Defended May 4, 2000
Advisor: Rami BursteinOn Trigeminohypothalamic Pain Pathways and How They Contribute to
Anorexic Behavior_______________
Managing Editor and Group PublisherQuan aMD
Michael Olivares, M.D.B.S., University of Texas at Aus n
Entered 1992 * Le February 1, 1993_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeReturned to Harvard Medical School to complete M.D. degree
Whereabouts unknown
Christopher Reid, Ph.D.B.S., United States Military Academy
Entered 1992 * Defended January 9, 1997Advisor: Christopher A.. Walsh
Cell Lineage in Mammalian Cerebral Cortex_______________
Chief Execu ve O cerPDC Capital Group
Kerry Ressler, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 1992 * Defended December 18, 1995Advisor: Linda Buck
Odorant Receptor Organiza on and Informa on Codingin the Mouse Olfactory System
_______________Professor of PsychiatryHarvard Medical School
Volney Sheen, M.D./Ph.D.Johns Hopkins University
Entered 1992 * Defended May 6, 1997Advisor: Je rey Macklis
Transplanta on Strategies for Reconstruc onof Complex Neocor cal Circuitry
_______________Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Paul Tolen no, M.D./Ph.D.Sc.B., Brown University
Entered 1992 * Defended May 27, 1995Advisor: Lydia Villa Komaro
Transcrip onal and Post Transcrip onal Regula onof VIP mRNA Expression
_______________Neurosurgeon
Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Kelly Van Koughnet, Ph.D.B.Sc., University of Toronto
Entered 1992 * Defended March 12, 1999Advisor: Steve Hyman
Proenkephalin Transgene Regula on in the Paraventricular Nucleus ofthe Hypothalamus by Lipopolysaccharide and Interleukin 1ß: a Model
for the Study of Neuro Immune Communica on_______________
Associate Vice President of Research and Knowledge Transla oinCanadian Ins tutes of Health Research
Brenda Allwardt, Ph.D.B.A., Lawrence University
Entered 1993 * Defended May 6, 1999Advisor: John Dowling
Ultrastructural Analysis of Photoreceptorsin Wildtype and Mutant Zebra sh Larvae
_______________Not currently employed
Joshua Berke, Ph.D.B.A., Cambridge University
Entered 1993 * Defended September 10, 1998Advisor: Steve Hyman
A Complex Program of Dopamine Induced Gene Expression Iden edUsing Di eren al Display PCR: Discovery of a Novel Inducible Cyclin
_______________Associate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
University of Michigan
Steven Chao, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1993 * Defended August 24, 1999Advisor: Larry Benowitz
GAP 43: Regula on and Func on_______________
PartnerClearView Healthcare Partners
Katrin Chua, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1993 * Defended May 7, 1999Advisor: Robin Reed
Remodeling of the Spliceosome for Catalysis of Exon Liga on_______________
Associate Professor of MedicineStanford University School of Medicine
Saumya Das, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1993 * Defended September 9, 1997Advisor: Nobuki Nakanishi
Iden ca on and Characteriza on of a Novel N Methyl D AspartateReceptor Subunit NR3A
_______________Researcher and Electrophysiologist
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Michael Bianche a, Ph.D.B.A., Brown University
Entered 1993 * Defended July 23, 2004Advisor: Jonathan Cohen
Self Associa on of the Muscle Speci c Receptor Tyrosine Kinase MuSK_______________
Whereabouts unknown
Jorge Luis Gonzalez, Ph.D.B.S., Tu s University
Entered 1993 * Defended May 10, 1999Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Cellular and Biochemical Analysis of Muta ons that A ect CerebralCor cal Development_______________
Execu ve Vice President of Systems and Technology Innova onEF Educa onal Tours
Heather HindsA.B., B.S., Stanford University
M.Sc., Oxford UniversityEntered 1993 * Le May 1, 1994
_______________Transferred to Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology– Tonegawa Lab
Neurologist — San Francisco, California
Lisa Horowitz, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., University of California at Berkeley
Entered 1993 * Defended September 14, 1998Advisor: Linda Buck
Connec vity in the Mouse Olfactory System_______________
PhysicianBoston, Massachuse s
Holly Engelman, A.M.B.S., Columbia University
Entered 1993 * Le January 1, 1996_______________
Transferred to Columbia UniversityReceived Ph.D. in 2002
Research support sta at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine
Jerri Mar n, A.M.B.S., California Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1993 * Le June 1, 1997
_______________Withdrew with Master’s degree
Elementary school volunteer; formerly scien st at Theravance, Inc.San Francisco, California
Mar n Niethammer, Ph.D.Diploma, Universitat Tubingen
Entered 1993 * Defended September 3, 1998Advisor: Morgan Sheng
Organiza on of an NMDA Receptor Associated Complex via the PDZDomains of PSD 95_______________
Adjunct Clinical Assistant ProfessorAlbert Einstein College of Medicine
Lianna Orlando, Ph.D.B.S., Syracuse University
Entered 1993 * Defended April 25, 2001Advisor: Anne Young
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Chain Migra on_______________
Scien c Program O cerMuscular Dystrophy Associa on
Thomas Jordan, Ph.D.Bucknell University
Entered 1993 * Defended December 8, 1997Advisor: John Dowling
Network Dynamics and Their Neuromodula on: Dopaminergic E ectson Re nal Recep ve Fields
_______________Founder and Chief Execu ve O cer
Aldexa Therapeu cs
Heather Rie , Ph.D.B.A., Williams College
Entered 1993 * Defended August 13, 1999Advisor: Gabriel Corfas
The Role of Neuregulin and erB Receptors in Cerebellar Development_______________
Senior Science Policy AnalystNa onal Ins tute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes
Bernardo Saba ni, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1993 * Defended September 16, 1997Advisor: Wade Regehr
Calcium Control of Neurotransmi er Release at a Cerebellar Synapse_______________
Professor of NeurobiologyHarvard Medical School
Maurice Sholas, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Southern University
Entered 1993 * Defended June 28, 1996Advisor: Daniel Kenshalo
Changes in Primary Somatosensory Cortex Processing of Nocicep veInforma on
Induced by In amma on_______________
Senior Medical DirectorChildren’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
Megan Benson Pra , Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
M.A., Harvard UniversityEntered 1993 * Defended September 13, 1999
Advisor: Jonathan CohenMapping Noncompe ve Antagonist Binding Sites in the Nico nic
Acetylcholine Receptor_______________
Educa onal Outreach CoordinatorIns tute for Human and Machine Cogni on
Jamie Zeitzer, Ph.D.B.A., Vassar College
Entered 1993 * Defended March 26, 1999Advisor: Charles Czeisler
Physiology and Anatomy of Human Circadian Photorecep onand Melatonin Regula on
_______________Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Stanford University School of Medicine
Pradeep Atluri, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1994 * Defended January 27, 2000Advisor: Wade Regehr
The Role of Presynap c Calcium in Short Term Synap c Plas city_______________
PsychiatristNew York City
Stacie Weninger, Ph.D.University of North Carolina
Entered 1994 * Defended September 9, 1999Advisor: Joseph Majzoub
Role of Cor cotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) and CRH Like Moleculesin Stress Induced Behavior
_______________Execu ve Director
Fidelity Biosciences Research Ini a ve
Fiona Watson, Ph.D.B.Sc., M.S., Dalhousie University
Entered 1993 * Defended May 18, 1999Advisor: Rosalind Segal
Retrograde Signaling by Neutrophins_______________
Associate Professor of BiologyWashington and Lee University
Michelle Day, Ph.D.B.S., University of California, Los AngelesEntered 1994 * Defended June 2, 2000
Advisor: Steve HymanThe E ects of Serotonin 5 HT2A Agonists and Antagonists on High
Voltage Ac vated Calcium Currents in Prefrontal Pyramidal Neurons_______________
Research Assistant ProfessorNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Jeremy Di man, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1994 * Defended June 2, 1998Advisor: Wade Regehr
Presynap c Modula on of Transmi er Releasein the Central Nervous System
_______________Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medical College
Stephanie Gaus, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1994 * Defended April 5, 2002Advisor: Cli ord Saper
Neuroanatomic Substrates for Circadian Control of Sleep_______________Research Scien st
University of California, San FranciscoSeeley Selec ve Vulnerability Research Laboratory
Paul Borghesani, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1994 * Defended December 20, 1999
Advisor: Rosalind SegalNeuronal Migra on in Development and Degenera on
_______________Psychiatrist
Sea le, Washington
James Morrill, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1994 * Defended July 26, 1999Advisor: Stephen Cannon
Biophysical Proper es of the Skeletal Muscle L Type Calcium Channelin Health and Disease_______________
Instructor in MedicineMassachuse s General Hospital
Paula Smith, PH.D.B.S., Cornell University
Entered 1994 * Defended September 7, 1999Advisor: Gary Yellen
Voltage dependent Ga ng of HERG Potassium Channels_______________
Medical WriterNovo Nordisk
Mark Zylka, Ph.D.B.X., Virginia Polytechnic Ins tute
Entered 1994 * Defended September 17, 1999Advisor: Steven Reppert
Characteriza on of a Mammalian Circadian Feedback Loop_______________
Associate Professor of Cell BiologyUniversity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Lisa Genova, Ph.D.B.S., Bates College
Entered 1994 * Defended April 30, 1998Advisor: Steve Hyman
Amphetamine Induced Adapta ons in Striatal Neurons: Roles ofSerotonin and Condi oned S muli
_______________Best selling author
“S ll Alice”, “Le Neglected” and “Inside the O’Briens”
A.B., Yun Beom Choi, M.D./Ph.D.Harvard College
Entered 1995 * Defended December 21, 1998Advisor: Stuart Lipton
Molecular Analysis of Modulatory Sites on the NMDA Receptor:Redox, Zn2+, and Nitric Oxide Related Species
_______________Neurologist
Englewood, New Jersey
Hui Zhou, A.M.B.S., Huazhong University of Science and Technology
M.S., Beijing UniversityEntered 1994 * Le March 1, 1997
_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeTransferred to Washington University
Richard Chris e, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1995 * Defended December 21, 1999
Advisor: Bradley HymanIn vivo Imaging of Amyloid Deposi on in a Transgenic Mouse Model
of Alzheimer’s Disease_______________
Independent Consultant (Pharmaceu cals)Obex Enterprises LLC
Manish Aghi, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1995 * Defended November 20, 1998Advisor: Xandra Breake eld
Improving the E cacy of Chemosensi zingBrain Tumor Gene Therapies
_______________Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
University of California, San Francisco
Jerry Lin, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1995 * Defended June 13, 2000Advisor: Morgan Sheng
I. Characteriza on of an NMDA receptor associated complexJ. centered around NRI;
II. The role of AMPA receptor tra cking in synap c plas city_______________OtolaryngologistFairfax, Virginia
Sanjay Magavi, Ph.D.Sc.B., Brown University
Entered 1995 * Defended September 28, 2001Advisor: Je rey Macklis
Induc on of Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of Adult Mice andAssessment of the Func onal Integra on of Adult born Neurons
_______________Senior Research Scien stVertex Pharmaceu cals
Heather Mason Chris e, Ph.D.A.B., Amherst College
Entered 1995 * Defended April 27, 2001Advisor: Gabriel Corfas
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Chain Migra on_______________
Homemaker
Jesus Garcia, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Loyola Marymount University
Entered 1995 * Defended September 10, 1999Advisor: Margaret Livingstone
Mechanisms of Color and Mo on in Monkey Visual Cortex_______________
Plas c SurgeonSacramento, California
Philip Nadeau, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 1995 * Defended September 15, 2000Advisor: Bruce Yankner
An Inves ga on of the Role of Apolipoproteins, Lipoproteins and thePresenilin Proteins in Amyloid Beta Metabolism and Alzheimer’s Disease
_______________Managing Director and Senior Research Analyst
Cowen and Company
Sco Naisbi , M.D./Ph.D.B.S., University of Utah
Entered 1995 * Defended September 29, 2000Advisor: Morgan Sheng
The Molecular Organiza on of the Postsynap c Densityby GKAP and SHANK_______________
Vice President of Scien c and Medical A airsLutonix, Inc.
Asha Elizabeth Nigh, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1995 * Defended March 7, 2003Advisor: Michael Greenberg
The Control of Protein Expression During Adap ve Neuronal Responses_______________
Chief Scien c Editor and FounderScience Editors Network
Mireya Nadal Vicens, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1995 * Defended September 14, 2001Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Signaling mechanisms that govern the switchfrom neuronal to astrocyte di eren a on in neocor cal progenitors
_______________Psychiatrist and Instructor of Psychiatry
Massachuse s General Hospital
Marcus Ware, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Tougaloo College
Entered 1995 * Defended November 16, 1998Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Cellular and Molecular Events in the Developmentof the Cerebral Cortex_______________
Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurological SurgeryTulane University
Vasanth Vedantham, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Yale University
Entered 1995 * Defended June 2, 2000Advisor: Stephen Cannon
Moving Parts of Voltage Gated Sodium Channels_______________
Assistant Professor of MedicineUniversity of California, San Francisco Medical Center
John Reppas, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Oxford University
Entered 1995 * Defended September 22, 2000Advisor: R. Clay Reid
Saccadic Eye Movements and Early Vision_______________
Director of Public PolicyNeurotechnology Industry Organiza on
Jeremiah Scharf, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Yale University
Entered 1995 * Defended September 8, 1999Advisor: Louis Kunkel
Compara ve Genomic Analysis of the Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA)Region in Mouse and Man: Applica ons for Understanding Disease
Pathogenesis_______________
Assistant Professor of NeurologyMassachuse s General Hospital
Alex Carter, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Brandeis University
Entered 1996 * Defended December 17, 2001Advisor: Rosalind Segal
Neurotrophin Modula on of Synap c Plas city and CerebellarDevelopment
_______________Assistant Professor of Neurology
Washington University School of Medicine
Lisa Catapano, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Dartmouth College
Entered 1996 * Defended September 21, 2001Advisor: Je rey Macklis
Stage Speci c Control over Neocor cal Callosal Projec on NeuronSurvival and Di eren a on
_______________Assistant Professor of PsychiatryGeorge Washington University
Thomas Chou, Ph.D.B.S., M.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1996 * Defended February 10, 2003
Advisor: Cli ord SaperRegula on of sleep wake ming: Circadian rhythms
and bistability of sleep wake behavior_______________
Whereabouts UnknownFormerly: Assistant Professor—Medical University of South Carolina
Bevil Conway, Ph.D.B.Sc., McGill University
Entered 1996 * Defended April 18, 2001Advisor: Margaret Livingstone
Mechanisms of Color and Mo on in Monkey Visual Cortex_______________
Associate Professor of NeuroscienceWellesley College
Michael Deans, Ph.D.B.A., Michigan State University
Entered 1996 * Defended April 26, 2002Advisor: David Paul
Connexin 36 Localiza on and Func on Within the Rod Pathwaysof the Mouse Re na_______________
Assistant Professor of OtolaryngologyUniversity of Utah School of Medicine
Shin Jung Kang, Ph.D.B.S., M.S., Seoul Na onal University
Entered 1996 * Defended September 25, 2001Advisor: Junying Yuan
A Dual Role of Capase 11 under Pathologicaland Physiological Condi ons
_______________Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology
Sejong University
Amy McMichaelB.S., Kalamazoo College
Entered 1996 * Le June 1, 1997_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeWhereabouts unknown
Magdalene Moran, Ph.D.B.A., Williams College
Entered 1996 * Defended October 7, 2002Advisor: David Clapham
TLF is a Func onal Regulator or Transcrip on with Targetsthat Are Dis nct from the TATA Box Binding Protein (TBP)
_______________Senior Vice President, Biology
Hydra Biosciences
Kim Seth, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1996 * Defended September 25, 2002Advisor: Joseph Majzoub
A Molecular Gene c Inves ga on of the Role of Re 1/REST In theTranscrip onal Regula on
of the Cor cotropin Releasing Hormone (CRH) Gene_______________
AdvisorResilience Therapeu cs
Abraha Taddese, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Washington University
Entered 1996 * Defended June 6, 2001Advisor: Bruce Bean
Electrophysiology of Spontaneously Ac veTuberomammillary Nucleus Neurons
_______________Physician
Miami, Florida
Jonathan Trinidad, Ph.D.B.S., William and Mary College
Entered 1996 * Defended October 10, 2002Advisor: Jonathan Cohen
The Localiza on and Func on of Neuregulin and the ErbB Receptorsat the Neuromuscular Junc on
_______________Director, Biological Mass Spectrometry
Indiana University
Doris Tsao, Ph.D.B.S., California Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1996 * Defended May 20, 2002
Advisor: Margaret LivingstoneStereopsis
_______________Professor of Biology
California Ins tute of Technology
Kevin Welch, A.M.B.S., Beloit College
Entered 1996 * Le June 1, 2007_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeWhereabouts unknown
Alo Basu, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1997 * Defended December 20, 2004
Advisor: Ed KravitzCharacteriza on of an Amine Modulated Stress Neuropep de System in
Homarus americanus_______________
Assistant ProfessorCollege of the Holy Cross
Adam Carter, Ph.D.B.A., Cambridge University
ESntered 1997 * Defended April 29, 2002Advisor: Wade Regehr
Synap c Transmission at Cerebellar Stellate Cells_______________
Associate Professor of Neural ScienceNew York University
Dennis Chang, Ph.D.B.Sc.H., Queen’s University
Entered 1997 * Defended July 16, 2003Advisor: Steven Reppert
Circadian Clock Molecules of a Lepidopteran Insect, Antheraea pernyi,and Comparison with the Fruit Fly, Drosophila melanogaster
_______________Principal
Clarion Healthcare
Mark Emerson, Ph.D.B.A., Oberlin College
Entered 1997 * Defended January 26, 2005Advisor: Davie Van Vactor
A Misexpression Gene c Screen in Drosophila Iden esCandidate Axon Guidance Factors with Di eren al Expression
_______________Assistant Professor of Biology
City College of New York
Heather Heerssen, Ph.D.B.A., Kenyon College
Entered 1997 * Defended December 3, 2003Advisor: Rosalind Segal
Mechanisms of Trk Receptor Retrograde Transport and Signaling_______________
Senior Medical WriterComplete Healthcare Communica ons
Jane Ko, Ph.D.B.A., Tulane University
Entered 1997 * Defended May 13, 2004Advisor: Li Huei Tsai
CdK5 Ac vators in Development and Poten al Regula on of Kinesins_______________
Associate Director, Global Marke ngKellogg Company
Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1997 * Defended May 14, 2004
Advisor: Azad BonniRegula on of STAT3 Signaling in Astrocyte Transforma on
_______________Associate Professor of Neuroscience
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Anatol Kreitzer, Ph.D.B.S., University of California at BerkeleyEntered 1997 * Defended April 25, 2001
Advisor: Wade RegehrAc vity Dependent Modula on of Synap c Strength in the Central
Nervous System_______________
Associate Professor of NeuroscienceUniversity of California, San Francisco
Robert Moy, A.M.B.A., Oberlin College
Entered September 1997 * Withdrew June 1, 2004———————
Withdrew with a Master’s degreePrincipal
Clarion Healthcare
Lisa Simon NelsonB.S., Rutgers University
Entered 1997 * Le January 1, 2000_______________
Withdrew without taking degreeWhereabouts unknown
Christov Roberson, Ph.D.B.A., Northern Arizona University
Entered 1997 * Defended August 5, 2004Advisor: David Clapham
G Protein Regula on of Inwardly Rec fying Potassium Channels_______________
LecturerJohns Hopkins University
Gisela Sandoval, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., California Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1997 * Defended July 9, 2002
Advisor: Gary RuvkunMolecular Analysis of an Interac on between the Vesicular
Acetylcholine Transporter and Synaptobrevin in Caenorhabdi s Elegans_______________
PsychiatristStanford University Hospital and Clinics
Claire Sauvageot, Ph.D.B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Entered 1997 * Defended October 9, 2003Advisor: Charles S les
Genomic Analysis of Fate Choice in Cor cal Progenitor Cells_______________
Senior Manager, Scien c Strategy and Publica onsTakeda Oncology (Dana Farber Cancer Ins tute)
Sohail Tavazoie, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., University of California, BerkeleyEntered 1997 * Defended June 15, 2001
Advisor: R. Clay ReidThe Development of Neural Connec ons from Re na to Thalamus:
Matura on and Plas city of Recep ve Fields_______________
Associate Professor of Cancer BiologyThe Rockefeller University
Sarah Webster, Ph.D.B.S., University of Connec cut
Entered 1997 * Defended December 12, 2003Advisor: Gary Yellen
Structures and mechanisms of ga ng inShaker voltage dependent potassium channels
_______________Assistant Professor
College of the Holy Cross
Ying Zhang, Ph.D.B.S., University of Science and Technology (China)
M.S., Duke UniversityEntered 1997 * Defended May 5, 2003
Advisor: R. Clay ReidWhere Is It? Deriving S mulus Loca on from the Responses of Visual
Neurons_______________
Whereabouts unknown
Bruce Altevogt, Ph.D.B.A., University of Virginia
Entered 1998 * Defended November 20, 2003Advisor: David Paul
Analysis of Connexins in Myela on_______________
Director of Science Policy and Science AdvocacyP zer, Inc.
Teresa Chae, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1998 * Defended May 15, 2002Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Mechanisms of Dorsal Pa erning in the Developing Forebrain_______________OphthalmologistHouston, Texas
Michael Tri Do, Ph.D.B.S., Georgetown University
Entered 1998 * Defended December 15, 2003Advisor: Bruce Bean
Genera on and Regula on of Pacemaking in Subthalamic Neurons_______________
Assistant Professor of NeurologyHarvard Medical School
John Elfar, M.D.Johns Hopkins University
Entered 1998 * Withdrew September 1, 2000
_______________
Withdrew without taking a Ph.D.Returned to Harvard Medical School to complete his M.D.
Associate Professor of OrthopaedicsUniversity of Rochester Medical Center
Edmund Gri n, Jr., M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Columbia University
Entered 1998 * Defended March 7, 2002Advisor: Chuck Weitz
Light, Cryptochrome, and Circadian Clocks_______________
Assistant Professor of Clinical PsychiatryColumbia University Medical Center
W. Taylor Kimberly, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Princeton University
Entered 1998 * Defended May 10, 2002Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Intramembrane Proteolysis and Signal Transduc on:The Gamma Secretase Complex and Its Connec on to Alzheimer’s
Disease_______________
Associate Director, Neuroscience Intensive Care UnitMassachuse s General Hospital
Gaby Maimon, Ph.D.B.S., Cornell University
Entered 1998 * Defended May 5, 2005Advisor: John Assad
Cortex, vision and ac on._______________
Assistant ProfessorThe Rockefeller University
Carolyn Rodriguez, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1998 * Defended March 4, 2002Advisor: Susan Dymecki
Innova ng Gene c Technology to Map the Origin of the PrecerebellarSystem
_______________Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Columbia University Medical Center
Erin Perry, A.M.B.A., Amherst College
Entered 1998 * Withdrew November 1, 2002_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeEnrolled in Harvard School of Educa on
Whereabouts unknown
Jun Shen, Ph.D.B.A., Dartmouth University
Entered 1998 * Defended December 13, 2004Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Using Forward and Reverse Gene cs to Study Genes that Control theSize of the Brain_______________
Instructor in PathologyHarvard Medical School
Susan St. Pierre, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1998 * Defended March 2, 2004Advisor: Stefan Thor
Neuronal Speci ca on in Drosophila: The roles of rotund and squeeze,two related zinc nger genes
_______________Homemaker
Brian Whalen, Ph.D.B.S., Columbia University
Entered 1998 * Defended April 12, 2005Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Early Events in Alzheimer’s Disease: An Examina on of Amyloid BetaProto bril Biology_______________
Vice President, Science and MedicineEvoke Health
Fu Chia Yang, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 1998 * Defended October 8, 2003Advisor: Chuck Weitz
The Poten al Role for the EGF Receptor System in the CircadianRegula on of Locomotor Ac vity
_______________Scien st I
Dana Farber Cancer Ins tute
Paul Arday o, Ph.D.Wayne State University
Entered 1999 * Defended May 4, 2006Advisor: Kwang Soo Kim
Behavioral Inves ga on of Cogni ve Func on in Mouse Modelsof Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
_______________
Clinical Research Scien stEli Lilly and Company
Nathaniel Blair, Ph.D.B.A., University of Chicago
Entered 1999 * Defended January 15, 2004Advisor: Bruce Bean
Contribu on of Voltage Gated Sodium, Calcium and Potassium Currentsto the Excitability of Nocicep ve Sensory Neurons
_______________Scien st II
Hydra Biosciences
Laurie Burlingame, A.M.B.A., Wellesley College
Entered 1999 * Withdrew June 1, 2002_______________
Withdrew with Master’s DegreeAssociate A orney
Goodwin Procter LLC
Yoojin Choi, Ph.D.University of California, Irvine
Entered 1999 * Defended July 19, 2006Advisor: Rosalind Segal
Mitogenic Niches in the Developing Cerebellum_______________
Associate Professor of BiologyNorth Park University
Thomas Deuel, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 1999 * Defended August 4, 2004Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Doublecor n and the Doublecor n like Kinase in CNS Development andPlas city
_______________Neurologist and A liate Professor at Center for Arts/Experimental Media
University of Washington
Shelby Dietz, Ph.D.B.A., Cornell University
Entered 1999 * Defended November 29, 2005Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy
Plas city and Development of the Mitral Granule Reciprocal Synapsein the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb
_______________Research AssociateCornell University
Eleanore Edson, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1999 * Defended August 3, 2005Advisor: Chinfei Chen
Entered September 1999Contribu ons of Glutamate Transporters and Metabotrophic Glutamate
Receptors to Synap c Transmission over Development at theRe nogeniculate Synapse
_______________Program O cer
Bill and Melinda Gates Founda on
Kelly Foster, Ph.D.B.S., University of Pi sburgh
Entered 1999 * Defended August 11, 2004Advisor: Wade Regehr
Mechanisms and Func onal Consequences of Depression at the ClimbingFiber to Purkinje Cell Synapse
_______________Associate Director of Biology
Ataxion Therapeu cs
Sanjiv Harpavat, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 1999 * Defended October 20, 2004Advisor: Connie Cepko
Roles of Thyroid Hormone in Chick Re nal Development_______________
Physician and researcherBaylor College of Medicine
Maria Leh nen, Ph.D.B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Entered 1999 * Defended December 15, 2005Advisor: Azad Bonni
Survival and Death Signaling Pathways: From Single Cells to Organisms_______________
Assistant Professor of PathologyHarvard Medical School
Jacob Marcus, Ph.D.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 1999 * Defended April 28, 2006
Advisor: Joel ElmquistOrexin Receptors and the Central Autonomic System
_______________Principal Scien st, Neuroscience Discovery
Merck Research Laboratories
Bence Ölveczky, Ph.D.M.Sc., Technical University of Budapest
M.Sc., Imperial UniversityEntered 1999 * Defended May 23, 2003
Advisor: Markus MeisterRe nal Processing of Natural Mo on
_______________Professor of Organismic and Evolu onary Biology
Harvard University
Hien Tran, M.D./Ph.D.Stanford University
Entered 1999 * Defended June 5, 2003Advisor: Michael Greenberg
A Role for Forkheads in the Response to Stress_______________
DermatologistSan Diego, California
Duo Wang, Ph.D.B.S., Beijing University
Entered 1999 * Defended May 2, 2005Advisor: Gary Ruvkun
Nega ve regula on of RNA interference in Caenorhabdi s elegans_______________
Senior Manager, Market Intelligence and Market DevelopmentMedtronic
Amy Ashbacher, A.M.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered September 2000 * Le June 1, 2005
Advisor: John Assad_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeWhereabouts unknown
Jay Biko , Ph.D.Sc.B., Brown University
Entered 2000 * Defended May 7, 2007Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Molecular Mechanisms Regula ng Cor cal Development: FromNeurons to Synapses_______________
Postdoctoral FellowColumbia University — Jessell Lab
Saskia de Vries, Ph.D.B.S., Yale University
Entered 2000 * Defended May 5, 2006Advisor: Markus Meister
Modula on of Re nal Responses by Single Amacrine Cells_______________
Scien st IIAllen Ins tute for Brain Science
Antoniu Fantana, Ph.D.Diploma, Heidelberg University
Entered 2000 * Defended May 1, 2006Advisor: Markus Meister
Odor Processing in the Olfactory Bulb: Structureof Mitral Cell Recep ve Fields
_______________Medical Liaison
Eli Lilly
Carson Alex Goddard, Ph.D.B.A., Oberlin College
Entered 2000 * Defended May 15, 2006Advisor: Carla Shatz
MHC Class I and the Homeosta c Regula on of CNS Synapses_______________
Inves gator IINovar s Ins tutes
Joshua Gooley, Ph.D.B.A., Wesleyan University
Entered 2000 * Defended October 31, 2005Advisor: Cli ord Saper
Entrainment of the Circadian Timing System by Light and Food_______________
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders ProgramDuke NUS Medical School
Anna Greka, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 2000 * Defended October 10, 2002Advisor: David Clapham
TRP Channels and the Cytoskeleton: Implica ons for Neuronal Growthand Cellular Mo lity_______________
Assistant Professor of MedicineHarvard Medical School
Kenichi Hartman, Ph.D.B.S., Brandeis University
Entered 2000 * Defended April 28, 2006Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy
Regula on of Neuronal Morphology and Synap c Developmentby Ac vity
_______________U.S. Patent Agent/Israeli Patent A orney Trainee
Allan C. En s, Ph.D. Intellectual Property Ltd.
Ma hew Hass, Ph.D.B.S., University of Iowa
Entered 2000 * Defended November 16, 2006Advisor: Bruce Yankner
Iden ca on of Novel Roles of the Amyloid Precursor Protein in SignalTransduc on
_______________Research Instructor
Cincinna Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Rhonda Hyde, Ph.D.B.S., Yale University
Entered 2000 * Defended September 8, 2008Advisor: Anne Hart
Gene c Analysis of Protein Kinase C and MAPK in C. elegansmechanosensa on_______________Biology Instructor
Biology Instructor, Upli Educa on
Alex Jackson, Ph.D.B.Sc., McGill University
Entered 2000 * Defended September 11, 2006Advisor: Bruce Bean
Subthreshold Currents Underlying the Spontaneous Firing ofHypothalamic Pacemaker Neurons
_______________Assistant Professor of Physiology
University of Connec cut
Vuk Koprivica, Ph.D.B.A., Earlham University
Entered 2000 * Defended November 22, 2005Advisor: Zhigang He
Mechanisms of Myelin Regenera on Inhibi on_______________
Director of Business DevelopmentVanda Pharmaceu cals
Sebas an Kraves, Ph.D.University of Buenos Aires
Entered 2000 * Defended May 5, 2005Advisor: Chuck Weitz
Molecular Analyses of the Circadian Control of Locomotor Ac vityin Mammals
_______________Co Founder
miniPCR
Claire McKellar, Ph.D.B.S., Yale University
Entered 2000 * Defended November 17, 2005Advisor: Carla Shatz
A Program of New Gene Expression Induced by Synaptogenesis_______________Research Specialist
Howard Hughes Medical Ins tute
Brooke Pa en, Ph.D.B.S., Princeton University
Entered 2000 * Defended December 8, 2005Advisor: Gabriel Corfas
Molecular Mechanisms of Radial Glia Forma on in the DevelopingCerebellum
_______________Assistant Vice President
MedStar Washington Hospital Center
Ben Samuels, Ph.D.B.S., Johns Hopkins University
Entered 2000 * Defended May 2, 2006Advisor: Li Huei Tsai
Physiological Func ons of Cdk5 in the Nervous System_______________
Assistant Professor of PsychiatryColumbia University
Sujith Vijayan, PH.D.A.B., Amherst College
Entered 2000 * Defended September 17, 2007Advisor: Emery Brown
Characteriza on of Ac vity in the Primary Somatosensory Cortex DuringAc ve Behavior and Sleep
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachuse s General Hospital—Cash Lab
Kevin Wang, Ph.D.B.S., M.S., Stanford UniversityM.Phil., Cambridge University
M.D., University of California at San FranciscoEntered 2000 * Defended March 19, 2003
Advisor: Zhigang HeSignaling Mechanisms Underlying Inhibi on
of Axonal Regenera on by CNS Myelin_______________
Assistant Professor of DermatologyStanford University School of Medicine
Lisa Zakhary, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Columbia University
Entered 2000 * Defended April 25, 2005Advisor: Catherine Dulac
Anatomical and Func onal Analysis of MicroRNAs in MammalianOlfactory Neurogenesis
_______________Psychiatrist
Massachuse s General Hospital
Perry Bri s, Ph.D. B.A., Colgate College
M.D., Harvard Medical SchoolEntered 2001 * Defended January 29, 2004
Advisor: John FlanaganRNA Based Mechanisms for Locally Regula ng Axon Guidance Decisions
_______________Founder and Chief Execu ve O cer
SliceLabs, LLC
Brenda Bloodgood, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego
Entered 2001 * Defended July 14, 2006Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
Biochemical Compartmentaliza on and Synap c Signaling in Dendri c Spines of Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons
_______________Assistant Professor of Neurobiology University of California, San Diego
James Berg, Ph.D. B.S., Rutgers University
Entered 2001 * Defended May 5, 2008Advisor: Gary Yellen
Imaging Neuronal Metabolism_______________
Manager, Electrophysiology The Allen Ins tute for Brain Science
Dinu Florin Albeanu, Ph.D. B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2001 * Defended September 8, 2008
Advisor: Venkatesh MurthyMul modal Imaging of Sensory Inputs and Neuronal Coding in the
Rodent Olfactory Bulb _______________
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Eunju Chung, Ph.D. B.S., Boston College
Entered 2001 * Defended May 9, 2007Advisor: Tom Schwarz
Axonal Transport of Synap c Components and Synaptogenesis in Drosophila
_______________Senior Manager, Strategic Planning
Genexine, Inc.
Yeang Ch’ng, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., M.S., Yale University
Entered 2001 * Defended September 17, 2007Advisor: Clay Reid
Func onal Imaging of Cellular and Vascular Ac vity in Visual Cortex _______________
Radiologist Fine Art Photographer
Jay Chyung, M.D./Ph.D. A.B., Harvard College
Entered 2001 * Defended September 1, 2004Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Cell Surface Events in the Amyloidogenic Processing of the Amyloid Precursor Protein
_______________Advisor
Recon Strategy
Sophie Currier, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2001 * Defended June 7, 2004
Advisor: Christopher A. WalshGene cs of Walker Warburg Syndrome: A Disorder of Brain, Muscle,
and Eye Development _______________
Physician London, England
John Dekker, M.D./Ph.D. B.A., Wesleyan University
Entered 2001 * Defended May 2, 2006Advisor: Gary Yellen
Molecular Analysis of Ga ng in Voltage Dependent Ion Channels _______________
Sta physician NIH Clinical Center
Elizabeth Glater, Ph.D. B.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 2001 * Defended May 24, 2006Advisor: Thomas Schwarz
The mechanism for Transport of Mitochondria in Drosophila _______________
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Pomona College
Robert Gri n, M.D./Ph.D. B.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 2001 * Defended September 20, 2005Advisor: Cli ord Woolf
Di eren al Gene Expression Associated with Neuropathic Pain _______________Anesthesiologist
New York City
Dana Harrar, Ph.D. B.A., Johns Hopkins UniversityM.D., Vanderbilt University
Entered 2001 * Defended February 28, 2007Advisor: Michael Greenberg
An RNA Interference Screen Iden es New Molecules Required for Mammalian Synapse Development
_______________Resident in Child Neurology Boston Children’s Hospital
Mac Hooks, Ph.D. A.B., Harvard College
Entered 2001 * Defended March 26, 2007Advisor: Gina Turrigiano
Func onal Development of the Re nogeniculate Synapse _______________
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology University of Pi sburgh
Vikram Khurana, Ph.D. B.A., B.S., M.D., University of Sydney
Entered 2001 * Defended May 11, 2006Advisor: Mel Feany
Mitogenic signaling and cell cycle ac va on mediate Neurodegenera on in Drosophila
_______________Neurologist
Massachuse s General Hospital
Misao Higashi Kovtun, Ph.D. Sc..B., Brown University
Entered 2001 * Defended April 13, 2009Advisor: Thomas Schwarz
Characteriza on of an Impor n beta11 Mutant at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junc on
_______________Homemaker and Philanthropist
Brad Molyneaux, M.D./Ph.D. B.A., Dartmouth University
Entered 2001 * Defended September 23, 2005Advisor: Je rey Macklis
Molecular Development of Cor cospinal Motor Neurons _______________
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology University of Pi sburgh Medical Center
Patrick Safo, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., State University of New York at Stony BrookEntered 2001 * Defended September 23, 2005
Advisor: Wade RegehrMolecular Development of Cor cospinal Motor Neurons
_______________Dermatologist
Wisconsin
Gilberto Solver Llavina, Ph.D. B.S., University of Puerto Rico
Entered 2001 * Defended August 8, 2007Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
Compartmentaliza on and Modula on of Synap c Signaling in Dendrites and Spines
_______________Inves gator
Novar s, Inc.
Rebecca Swimmer, A.M. University of Illinois, Urbana
Entered September 2001 * Withdrew June 1, 2005_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degree Veterinarian in Venice, California
Cindy Chen, A.M. B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2002 * Withdrew June 1, 2008
_______________Withdrew with Master’s Degree
Whereabouts unknown
Kenneth Colodner, Ph.D. B.A., Northwestern University
Entered 2002 * Defended June 2, 2008Advisor: Mel Feany
Using Drosophila to Inves gate the Glial Contribu on to Neurodegenera ve Disorders
_______________Visi ng Assistant Professor
Mt. Holyoke College
Steven Flavell, Ph.D. B.A., Oberlin College
Entered 2002 * Defended October 17, 2008Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Regula on of synapse development by the ac vity regulated transcrip on factor MEF2
_______________Assistant Professor
Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Raj Gopal, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., University of California, Irvine
Entered 2002 * Defended June 26, 2007Advisor: Bruce Yankner
Regula on of DNA Double Strand Break Repair by Parkin _______________
Clinical Fellow in Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Brian Ha er, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., Princeton University
Entered 2002 * Defended November 7, 2006Advisor: David Rowitch
Transcrip onal Regula on of Olig2 in Motor Neuron Development _______________Ophthalmologist
Boston, Massachuse s
Todd Herrington, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., Stanford University
Entered 2002 * Defended June 15, 2007Advisor: John Assad
A en onal Dynamics in Parietal Cortex _______________
Instructor in Neurology Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Hong, Ph.D. B.S., California Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2002 * Defended December 1, 2008Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Func onal Signi cance of Neuronal Ac vity Dependent Transcrip onal Regula on in the Nervous System
_______________Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
California Ins tute of Technology
Michael Hughes, Ph.D. B.S., Stanford University
Entered 2002 * Defended December 19, 2006Advisor: Dietmar Schmucker
A Gene c and Biochemical Analysis of Dscam Signaling in Dendrite Morphogenesis
_______________Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Missouri at St. Louis
John Nicholas Hunter, Ph.D. B.S., University of Washington
Entered 2002 * Defended June 16, 2009Advisor: Richard T. Born
Spa al Integra on of Mo on Signals in Macaque MT _______________
Whereabouts unknown
Eirene Kontopoulos, Ph.D. B.A., Haverford College
Entered 2002 * Defended May 4, 2007Advisor: Mel Feany
Mechanisms of alpha synuclein Neurotoxicity in Parkinson’s Disease _______________
Biotech Analyst Fidelity Investments
Edmund Koundakjian, Ph.D. B.S., University of California, Riverside
M.S., California State University, San BernardinoEntered 2002 * Defended May 15, 2008
Advisor: Lisa GoodrichAn Analysis of the Development of the Cochlear Ves bular Ganglion
_______________Patent Agent
Cooley LLP
Alice Lu, Ph.D. B.A., Columbia University
Entered 2002 * Defended August 11, 2008Advisor: Rudolph Tanzi
Poten al Roles for Ubiquilin 1 in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathogenesis _______________
Healthcare Strategy Consultant Har ord, CT
Ju Lu, Ph.D. B.Engr., Tsinghua University
Entered 2002 * Defended April 21, 2008Advisor: Je Lichtman
Connectomic Studies of the Mammalian Neuromuscular System _______________
Assistant Project Scien st University of California, Santa Cruz (Beijing, China)
Laura Magno , Ph.D. B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Entered 2002 * Defended May 27, 2010Advisor: David Paul
Gap Junc ons Between Astrocytes and Oligodendrocytes Are Cri cal for Normal Glial Func on
_______________ Preceptor in Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Senior Editor, American Journal Experts
David Simon, Ph.D. B.S., M.S., Brandeis University
Entered 2002 * Defended April 30, 2008Advisor: Josh Kaplan
microRNA Regula on of Synapse Func on in C. elegans _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow The Rockefeller University—Tessier Lavigne Lab
Glenn Yiu, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., Columbia University
Entered 2002 * Defended May 26, 2006Advisor: Zhigang He
Signaling Mechanisms Limi ng Axon Regenera on in the Adult Central Nervous System
_______________Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology
University of California, Davis
Victoria Abraira, Ph.D. B.S., University of Southern California
Entered 2003 * Defended March 30, 2009Advisor: Lisa Goodrich
Molecular Mechanisms of Inner Ear Morphogenesis _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School —Ginty Lab
Joshua Jacob Buchman, Ph.D. B.A., Rutgers University
Entered 2003 * Defended October 1, 2009Advisor: Li Huei Tsai
Roles of centrosome proteins associated with primary microcephaly in mammalian cor cogenesis
_______________Science Advisor
Goodwin Procter LLP
Adam Christensen, Ph.D. B.S., University of Iowa
Entered 2003 * Defended March 30, 2009Advisor: David Corey
The Role of TRP Channels in Mechanosensa on _______________
Special Agent Federal Bureau of Inves ga on
Stephanie Courchesne Schlink, Ph.D. B.S., Davidson College
Entered 2003 * Defended November 3, 2009Advisor: Rosalind Segal
Spa al Aspects of Neuronal Survival Signaling in Sensory Neurons: A Role for Mef2D and Bcl w
_______________Health Sciences Policy Analyst Na onal Ins tutes of Health
Luis de la Torre Ubieta, Ph.D. B.S., University of Puerto Rico
Entered 2003 * Defended May 4, 2010Advisor: Azad Bonni
Transcrip onal Regula on of Neuronal Polarity _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow University of California at Los Angeles—Geschwind Lab
Xuecai Ge, Ph.D. B.S., Beijing University
M.S., Tsinghua UniversityEntered 2003 * Defended April 8, 2009
Advisor: Li Huei TsaiFunc ons of the Centrosome in Embryonic Neurogenesis
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University Medical Center—Sco Lab
Johannes Haushofer, Ph.D. B.A., Oxford University
Entered 2003 * Defended March 26, 2008Advisor: Margaret Livingstone
Cor cal Object Representa ons _______________
Assistant Professor of Psychology Princeton University
Ma hew Hemming, Ph.D. B.S., University of California, San Diego
M.D., Harvard Medical SchoolEntered 2003 * Defended September 10, 2007
Advisor: Dennis SelkoeRegula on of Beta Amyloid Protein Levels by Proteoly c Degrada on
and Its Implica ons for Alzheimer’s Disease _______________
Clinical Fellow in Oncology Dana Farber Cancer Ins tute—Bradner Lab
Youn Young Kate Hong, Ph.D. B.S., Brown University
Entered 2003 * Defended April 21, 2010Advisor: Joshua Sanes
Structure and Development of Re nal Ganglion Cells _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow Columbia University—Bruno Lab
Aaron Kerlin, Ph.D. B.A., Oberlin College
Enterd 2003 * Defended January 18, 2011Advisor: R. Clay Reid
Response proper es of inhibitory neuron subtypes in mouse visual cortex _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow Janelia Farm—Svoboda Lab
Allison Terra Knoll, Ph.D. B.S., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Entered 2003 * Defended November 9, 2009Advisor: Bill Carlezon
Role of Kappa Opioid Receptors in Fear and Anxiety like Behavior in Rats
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Southern California—Zilkha Lab
Camilo Libedinsky, Ph.D. B.S., University of Chile
Entered 2003 * Defended May 6, 2009Advisor: Marge Livingstone
Neuronal Mechanisms of Visual Percep on: Role of Early Visual and Prefrontal Cor cal Areas in Conscious Awareness
_______________Assistant Professor of Psychology Na onal University of Singapore
Timothy Mosca, Ph.D. B.S., M.S., Yale University
Entered 2003 * Defended April 23, 2009Advisor: Thomas Schwarz
Nuclear Import and Synapse to Nucleus Signalling at the Drosophila Neuromuscular Junc on
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University—Luo Lab
Carlos Ponce, M.D./Ph.D. B.S., University of Utah
Entered 2003 * Defended May 22, 2008Advisor: Rick Born
Integra ng Visual Informa on through Parallel Pathways _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School — Livingstone Lab
Pavan Ramdya, Ph.D. B.A., Drew University
Entered 2003 * Defended May 1, 2009Advisor: Florian Engert
Direc on selec vity in the larval zebra sh op c tectum _______________
SNSF Advanced Postdoctoral Fellow California Ins tute of Technology—Dickinson Lab
James Fitzhugh Sturgill, Ph.D. B.S., Davidson College
Entered 2003 * Defended September 30, 2009Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
Ac vity dependent Regula on of Synapse Structure and Func on: Roles of PSD 95 and the Metabolic Sensor, AMPK
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory—Kepecs Lab
Geo rey Tanner, Ph.D. B.S., M.A.L.S., Wesleyan University
Entered 2002 * Defended July 29, 2009Advisor: Gary Yellen
K(ATP) Channels, Metabolism, and Neuronal Excitability _______________Visi ng Lecturer
Mt. Holyoke College
Max Tisch eld, Ph.D. B.A., Rutgers University
Entered 2003 * Defended April 23, 2009Advisor: Elizabeth Engle
Human Eye Movement Disorders Help Iden fy Molecular and Gene c E ologies
of Novel Neurological Syndromes _______________
Postdoctoral Fellow Boston Children’s Hospital—Engle Lab
Rochelle Wi , M.D./Ph.D. B.S., University of Illinois, Urbana
Entered 2003 * Defended June 22, 2010Advisor: Rosalind Segal
Of Structure and Func on: The Nature of the Sonic Hedgehog Heparan Sulfate Proteoglycan Interac on
_______________Child Neurologist
New York City
Eiman Abdel Azim, Ph.D. B.S., B.A., Stanford University
Entered 2004 * Defended November 20, 2009Advisor: Je rey Macklis
Molecular Controls over Neocor cal Neuronal Diversity and Oligodendrocyte Development
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University Medical Center—Jessel Lab
Jessica Appler, Ph.D. B.S., University of Southern CaliforniaEntered 2004 * Defended April 22, 2010
Advisor: Lisa GoodrichThe Molecular and Morphological Development
of Spiral Ganglion Neurons _______________
Public Health Analyst BARDA/U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Parizad Bilimoria, Ph.D. B.S., M.S., Brandeis UniversityEntered 2004 * Defended May
Advisor: Azad BonniSignaling Mechanisms Regula ng Neuronal Morphogenesis
in the Cerebellar Cortex _______________
Director of Programming and Outreach Harvard University—Conte CBS Colloquium on Mental Health
Dravida Das Bock, Ph.D. B.S., Brown University
Entered 2004 * Defended January 10, 2011Advisor: R. Clay Reid
Network Anatomy and In Vivo Physiology from a Group of Visual Cor cal Neurons
_______________Group Leader Janelia Farm
Kelly Dakin, Ph.D. B.A., Bowdoin College
Entered 2004 * Defended September 6, 2011Advisor: Bruce Yankner
Novel Biological Func ons of Hemoglobin in the Brain
_______________Database Curator
Alzforum
Nathan Gouwens, Ph.D. B.A., Northwestern University
Entered 2004 * Defended July 15, 2009Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Processing of Neural Signals in the Drosophila Olfactory System _______________
Scien st I The Allen Ins tute for Brain Science
Peri Kurshan, Ph.D. B.Sc., Brown University
Entered 2004 * Defended March 4, 2010Advisor: Thomas Schwarz
The Role of Alpha2delta 3 in Calcium Channel Localiza on, Synap c Func on and Bouton Forma on
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University—Shen Lab
Jason Neal, Ph.D. B.S., Hampton University
M.D., Columbia University Medical Center (2014)Entered 2004 * Defended August 3, 2010
Advisor: Christopher A. WalshInsights into the role of Filamin A and Arfgef2 genes
in periventricular heteropia forma on _______________
Resident in Neurology Columbia University Medical Center
Shawn R. Olsen, Ph.D. B.S., University of Utah
Entered 2004 * Defended August 11, 2008Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Synap c and Circuit Mechanisms of Odor Processing in Drosophila _______________
Assistant Inves gator The Allen Ins tute for Brain Science
Irit Rappley, Ph.D. B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2004 * Defended May 1, 2009
Advisor: Dennis SelkoeSelec ve E ects of Alpha Synuclein
on Membrane Phospholipids and Mitochondrial Func on _______________
Scien st II Celgene
Leigh Amanda Sadacca, Ph.D. B.A., University of Pennsylvania
Entered 2004 * Defended July 15, 2010Advisor: Charles Weitz
Circadian Clocks in Behavior and Physiology _______________
Laboratory Manager for Director of Division of Biosciences University College London
Ganesh Shankar, M.D./Ph.D. B.A., Stanford University
Entered 2004 * Defended December 17, 2007Advisor: Dennis Selkoe, Bernardo Saba ni
Soluble Abeta Oligomers and Synap c Dysfunc on in Alzheimer’s Disease
_______________Medical Resident in Neurosurgery Massachuse s General Hospital
Yue Yang, Ph.D. B.S., Stanford University
Entered 2004 * Defended May 3, 2010Advisor: Azad Bonni
A Cdc20 APC Ubiqui n Signaling Pathway Regulates Presynap c Di eren a on
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Washington University in St. Louis —Bonni Lab
Kevin Michael Cury, Ph.D. B.S., University of California at BerkeleyEntered 2005 * Defended April 29, 2011
Advisor: Naoshige UchidaThe Role of Spike Timing in Odor Coding During Sni ng
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University—Axel Lab
Danos Christodoulou B.S., University of Wisconsin at MadisonEntered 2005 * Withdrew May 11,2006
_______________Withdrew without taking degree
Transferred to BBS, defended 2013 Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School—Seidman Lab
Jamie Fitzgerald, Ph.D. B.S., Stanford University
Entered 2005 * Defended August 23, 2011
Advisor: John Assad
Generalized associa ve representa ons in parietal cortex
_______________
Postdoctoral Fellow
The Rockefeller University—the Maimon Lab
Masha Gelfand, Ph.D. B.S., Washington University
Entered 2005 * Defended April 13, 2012Advisor: Chenghua Gu
Characteriza on of the in vivo role of Neuropilin1 during development _______________
Scien c Editor Cell Press
Andrew Jacob Giessel B.S., University of Kansas
Entered 2005 * Defended August 19, 2010Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
Local, Non linear Regula on of Synap c Signals at Dendri c Spines of CA1 Pyramidal Cells
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Data Scien st SenseAI
J. Stefan Kaczmarek, Ph.D. B.A., Williams College
Entered 2005 * Defended August 2, 2011Advisor: David ClaphamEntered September 2005
Novel ac va on mechanisms of TRPC5 reveal its par cipa on in neuronal growth cone collapse
_______________Sta Scien st II
Genzyme
Nadia Li erman, Ph.D. A.B., Princeton University
Entered 2005 * Defended April 12, 2011Advisor: Azad Bonni
Regula on of Golgi Morphogenesis and Dendrite Pa erning by Ubiqui n Signaling _______________
Scien st and Project Manager 23andMe
Luis Mejia, Ph.D. B.S., University of Illinois – Urbana
Entered 2005 * Defended June 6, 2013Advisor: Azad Bonni
Interac on proteomics iden es a novel Hap1 Tsc1 connec on thatcontrols Neuronal mTORC1 signaling and pyramidal neuron
morphogenesis_______________
Postsdoctoral Fellow Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory — Bo Lab
Ellio Merriam B.S., University of Wisconsin at MadisonEntered 2005 * Withdrew May 11,2006
_______________Withdrew without taking degree
Enrolled in the University of Wisconsin Ph.D. program in neuroscience Patent Agent, Sea le, Washington
Michael Hideki Myoga, Ph.D. B.S., University of Washington
Entered 2005 * Defended February 25, 2011Advisor: Wade Regehr
Calcium Dependent Synap c Plas city in the Cerebellum _______________
Group Leader Ludwig Maximilians Universtat—Munich
Allison Paradise, A.M. B.Sc., Brown University
Entered 2005 * Le November 1, 2009_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degree Execu ve Director, My Green Lab
Simina Popa B.S., University of Washington
Entered 2005 * Le July 19, 2007_______________
Withdrew without taking degree Earned Ph.D. from University of Washington
Lecturer, University of Washington
Zeev Waks B.S., Technion Israel Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2005 * Withdrew November 27, 2006
_______________Transferred to Systems Biology
Research Scien st, IBM
Yi (Joey) Zhou, Ph.D. B.S., Duke University
Entered 2005 * Defended December 16, 2011Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Transduc on in Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons is invariant to air speed
_______________
Quan ta ve Researcher TrexQuant Management
Rachel Bortnick, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., University of Chicago
M.Phil, Cambridge UniversityEntered 2006 * Defended October 21, 2009
Advisor: Dietmar SchmuckerGene c Dissec on of the Dscam Pathway
_______________Pediatrician
University Hospital—Freiberg
Daniel Brady, Ph.D.B.S., University of California at Berkeley
Entered 2006 * Defended October 28, 2011Advisor: Takao Hensch
Mechanisms of cross modal re nement by visual experience_______________Lead Data Scien st
Hello Alfred
Bre Carter, Ph.D.B.S., George Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2005 * Defended July 27, 2011Advisor: Bruce Bean
Sodium current during and between ac on poten als of GABAergicand glutamatergic neurons
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Oregon Health & Science University—Jahr Lab
Eun Young Choi, Ph.D.B.A., Columbia University
Entered 2006 * Defended July 29, 2013Advisor: Randy Buckner
The Organiza on of Cor costriatal Connec vity in the Human Brain_______________
Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Rochester—Haber Lab
Irina De la Huerta, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
M.D., University of TorontoEntered 2006 * Defended April 19, 2012
Advisor: Joshua SanesExpression and role of cadherins in the mammalian visual system
_______________Medical Resident in Ophthalmology
University of California at San Francisco Medical Center
Adriana Eisner, Ph.D.B.A., University of California at BerkeleyEntered 2006 * Defended June 26, 2013
Advisor: Rosalind SegalPhosphatome RNAi Screen Iden es Eya1 as a Posi ve Regulator
Of Hedgehog Signal Transduc on_______________
AssociateMcKinsey & Company
Soyon Hong, Ph.D.B.S., University of Washington
Entered 2006 * Defended April 18, 2012Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Probing the in vivo economy of amyloid beta proteinduring the development of Alzheimer’s disease type pathology
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School—Stevens Lab
Kuo Hua Huang, Ph.D.B.S., Na onal Tsinghua University
Entered 2006 * Defended April 18, 2012Advisor: Florian Engert
Control of Turning Behaviors by Spinal Projec on Neurons_______________
Postdoctoral FellowFriedrich Meisser Ins tute, Switzerland
Yessenia Ibarra, Ph.D.B.S., San Diego State University
Entered 2006 * Defended February 14, 2014Advisor: David Clapham
Characteriza on of human TRPA1 and TRPV1 channelsin response to naturally occurring defensive compounds
_______________Public Health Associate
Center for Disease Control (Boston)
Mar n Kurtev, A.M.B.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2006 * Withdrew with Master’s degree on 3/31/2014Advisor: David Clapham
_______________Whereabouts unknown
Brendan Lehnert, Ph.D.B.S., Stanford University
Entered 2006 * Defended April 10, 2012Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Dis nct roles of TRP channels in auditory transduc onand ampli ca on in Drosophila
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School—Ginty Lab
Alan Mardinly, Ph.D.B.A., University of Chicago
Entered 2006 * Defended January 16, 2013Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
Regula on of Synapse Development by Ac vity DependentTranscrip on in Inhibitory Neurons
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Berkeley—Adesnik Lab
Amy Meesun Ni, Ph.D.B.A., Dartmouth University
Entered 2006 * Defended December 19, 2011Advisor: John Maunsell
Visual A en on and the Role of Normaliza on
_______________Analyst
The New Teachers ProjectBrooklyn, New York
Alexandra Smolyanskaya, Ph.D.B.S., State University of New York at Stony Brook
Entered 2006 * Defended August 24, 2012Advisor: Richard T. Born
Dynamics of cor cal decision circuitsduring changes in the delity of sensory representa ons
_______________Data Scien st
S tch Fix
Michael Soskis, Ph.D.B.A., Yale University
Entered 2006 * Defended June 20, 2012Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
A chemical gene c study of EphB receptor tyrosine kinasesignaling in the developing nervous system
_______________Food Opera ons ManagerSpring: Dine on Demand
David Stoppel, Ph.D.B.A., New York University
Entered 2006 * Defended January 29, 2014Advisor: Ma hew Anderson
Social Behavior and Gene Expression Disturbances in Mouse Modelsof Angelman Syndrome and Idic15 Au sm
_______________Whereabouts Unknown
Ashlee Van’t Veer, Ph.D.B.A., Rutgers University
Entered 2006 * Defended January 24, 2013Advisor: Bill Carlezon
Role of Kappa Opioid Receptors in Stress Induced Behaviors_______________
Health Program SpecialistNa onal Ins tute of Neurological Disorders
Nina Vujovi , Ph.D.B.A., University of Virginia
Entered 2006 * Defended October 8, 2013Advisor: Cli ord Saper
Hypothalamic neural circuits underlying circadian organiza on ofbehavior and physiology
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School — Medical Chronobiology Program
Oulu Wang, Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 2006 * Defended April 13, 2012Advisor: Joseph Majzoub
Glucocor coids Promote Obesity and Suppressionof Reproduc ve Func on During Stress
_______________Enrolled in Harvard Law School in August 2015
Zheng (Herbert) Wu, Ph.D.B.S., Fudan University
Entered 2006 * Defended July 25, 2013Advisor: Catherine Dulac
Molecular Dissec on of Neural Circuitsunderlying Parental Behavior in Mice
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University—Shadlen Lab
Allison Rosen Bialas, Ph.D.B.A., Cornell University
Entered 2007 * Defended April 29, 2013Advisor: Beth Stevens
Ini a ng Complement dependent Synap c Re nement: Mechanisms ofNeuronal C1q Regula on
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School — Carroll Lab
Mónica Feliú Mójer, Ph.D.B.S., University of Puerto Rico
Entered 2007 * Defended January 15, 2013Advisor: Joshua Kaplan
Coupling the small GTPase Rab3 to the Synap c Vesicle Cycle_______________Program Manager
Ciencia Puerto Rico
David Ferrero, Ph.D.B.S., M.S., Swiss Federal Ins tute of Technology
Diploma, Imperial College LondonEntered 2007 * Defended December 11, 2012
Advisor: Steve LiberlesOlfactory Control of Ins nc ve Behavior
_______________Consultant
The Boston Consul ng Group
Vijay Ganesh, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard College
Entered 2007 * Defended June 19, 2012Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Iden ca on and Characteriza on of Genes Essen al for Human BrainDevelopment
_______________Returned to Harvard Medical School
Residency at Massachuse s General Hospital
Jonathan Garst Orozco, Ph.D.A.B., Washington University
Entered 2007 * Defended May 9, 2014Advisor: Bence Ölveczky
Learning Related Changes in the Func onal Connec vityWithin the Zebra Finch Song Control Circuit
_______________
Senior Scien stP zer Pharmaceu cals
Julie e Han, Ph.D.B.S., University of California at Los AngelesEntered 2007 * Defended April 18, 2012
Advisor: Mustafa SahinThe Role of TSC in Oligodendrocyte Di eren a on and Myelina on
_______________Engagement ManagerMcKinsey & Company
Jocelyn LeBlanc, Ph.D.B.A., Colby College
Entered 2007 * Defended February 25, 2013Advisor: Michela Fagiolini
Cri cal period plas city and sensory func onin a neuroligin 3 model of au sm
_______________Postdoctoral fellow
Harvard Medical School—Nelson Lab
Emily Lehrman, Ph.D.B.A., Stanford University
Entered 2007 * Defended April 30, 2014Advisor: Beth Stevens
Innate Immune Molecules Direct Microglia Mediated DevelopmentalSynap c Re nement_______________
Postdoctoral FellowBoston Children’s Hospital—Stevens Lab
Shan Lou, Ph.D.B.S., Fudan University
Entered 2007 * Defended April 1, 2013Advisor: Qiufu Ma
Development and Func ons of C Low Threshold Mechanoreceptors_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard University—Adam Cohen Lab
Eric Luth, Ph.D.B.A., Colby College
Entered 2007 * Defended April 1, 2014Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Physiological and Pathological Characteriza onof Alpha Synuclein Oligomers
_______________TEACRS Postdoctoral Fellow
Tu s University School of Medicine
Athar Malik, M.D./Ph.D.B.S., Johns Hopkins University
Entered 2007 * Defended May 9, 2013Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Genome wide iden ca on and characteriza on ofs mulus responsive enhancers in the nervous system
_______________Resident in Neurosurgery
Massachuse s General Hospital
Lia Yoon Hong Min, Ph.D.B.S., B.F.A., University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Entered 2007 * Defended July 26, 2012Advisor: Michela Fagiolini
Experience Dependent Loss of Cross Modal Plas cityin Mouse Visual Cortex
_______________Art Science Research Fellow
University of Michigan School of Art & Design
Kathleen Quast, Ph.D.B.F.A., University of Wisconsin at Madison
Entered 2007 * Defended September 17, 2012Advisor: Takao Hensch
Func onal Development and Plas city of Parvalbumin Cells in VisualCortex: Role of Thalamocor cal Input
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Baylor College of Medicine—Arenkiel Lab
Heather Rice, Ph.D.B.A., University of Oklahoma at NormanEntered 2007 * Defended May 3, 2013
Advisor: Dennis SelkoeRegula on of the proteoly c processing and func on of Amyloid
Precursor Protein by candidate ligands_______________
Postdoctoral FellowKU Leuven—De Strooper Lab
Douglas Ru , Ph.D.B.S., College of William and Mary
Entered 2007 * Defended January 12, 2012Advisor: Richard T. Born
Neuronal Tuning and Its Role in A en on_______________
Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of Pi sburgh—Cohen Lab
John Salogiannis, Ph.D.B.A., B.S., University of Maryland at College Park
Entered 2007 * Defended June 27, 2013Advisor: Michael Greenberg
Regula on of excitatory synapse development by the RhoGEF Ephexin 5_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard Medical School —Reck Peterson Lab
Daniel E. Smith, A.M.B.S., Carnegie Mellon UniversityEntered 2007 * Le July 1, 2010
Advisor: Clay Reid_______________
Withdrew with Master’s degreeWhereabouts Unknown
Alice Yiquing Wang, Ph.D.B.A., Columbia University
Entered 2007 * Defended July 26, 2012Advisor: Naoshige Uchida
Neural substrates of choosing ac ons and mo va onal drive,a role for the striatum_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard Medical School—Harvey Lab
Sara J. Fenstermacher, Ph.D.B.A., Bucknell University
Entered 2009 * Defended February 27, 2015Advisor: Rosalind Segal
From nucleus to axon: Spa al regula on of bclw mRNApromotes neurotrophin dependent axon survival
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Columbia University — Jessell Lab
Mehmet Fisek, Ph.D.A.B., Brandeis University
Entered 2008 * Defended April 17, 2014Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Connec vity and Computa onsin Higher Order Olfactory Neurons in Drosophila
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
University College London—Hausser Lab
Allison Provost, Ph.D.B.A., University of California, Berkeley
Entered 2008 * Defended March 10, 2015Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy
Serotoninergic Modula on of the Olfactory Bulb_______________
Scien c Program ManagerOrion Bionetworks, Inc.
Ting Ren, A.M.B.S., Beijing Normal University
Entered 2008 * Le September 1, 2010Advisor: Catherine Dulac
_______________Withdrew with Master’s degree
Vice President of a company in Beijing, China(no English transla on given)
Cameron Sadegh, M.D./Ph.D.S.B., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2008 * Defended June 14, 2013
Advisor: Je rey MacklisDirected di eren a on of mouse embryonic stem cells
into neocor cal output neurons_______________
Intern in NeurosurgeryMassachuse s General Hospital
Arpiar Saunders, Ph.D.B.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 2008 * Defended July 28, 2014Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
A direct GABAergic output from the basal ganglia to frontal cortex_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard Medical School — McCarroll Lab
Alexandra Krol, Ph.D.B.A., M.Sci, Cambridge University
Entered 2008 * Defended March 20, 2015Advisor: Lisa Goodrich
Regula on of neuronal dendrite development and migra onby the atypical cadherin Fat3
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology—Feng Lab
Allison Nishitani, Ph.D.B.A., University of Southern CaliforniaEntered 2008 * Defended July 25, 2014
Advisor: Lisa GoodrichThe role of Netrin 1 in semicircular canal morphogenesis
_______________Teacher
Choate Rosemary Hall
Ian Oldenburg, Ph.D.B.S., Carnegie Mellon University
Entered 2008 * Defended July 11, 2014Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
Basal Ganglia Modula on of Cor cal Firing Ratesin a Behaving Animal_______________
Postdoctoral FellowUniversity of California, Berkeley — Adesnik Lab
Rajesh Poddar Ph.D.A.B., Princeton University
Entered 2008 * Defended April 9, 2015Advisor: Bence Ölveczky
A high throughput system for automated trainingcombined with con nuous long term neural recordings in rodents
_______________Quan ta ve AnalystJump Trading, L.L.C.
David Strochlic, Ph.D.B.A., Tu s University
Entered 2008 * Defended May 5, 2015Advisor: Steve Liberles
Molecular and Gene c Analysis of the Vagus Nerve_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard Medical School—Liberles Lab
Monica Thanawala, Ph.D.A.B.., Harvard University
Entered 2008 * Defended May 1, 2014Advisor: Wade Regehr
Control of Neurotransmi er Release Proper esby Presynap c Calcium
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University—Zhuang Lab
Mary Wertz, Ph.D.B.A., Boston College
Entered 2008 * Defended April 13, 2015Advisor: Mustafa Sahin
Aberrant microRNA Expression in SMA Motor Neurons_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard Medical School—Sahin Lab
Jessica Yano, A.M.B.S., California Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2008 * Withdrew June 18, 2012
_______________
Withdrew with a Master’s degreeResearch Scien st
California Ins tute of Technology (Hsiao Lab)
Wenjia You, Ph.D.B.A., Tsinghua University
Entered 2008 * Defended May 7, 2015Advisor: Connie Cepko
Lineage and Func onal Analyses of Speci c Subsetsof Re nal Progenitor Cells
_______________Consultant
McKinsey & Company
Allison Baker Chang, Ph.D.B.A., Dartmouth University
Entered 2009 * Defended April 28, 2015Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Encoding and decoding mechanosensory informa onon mul ple mescales_______________
Enrolled in Harvard Medical School August 2015
Joseph Bell, M.D./Ph.D.A.B., Harvard University
Entered 2009 * Defended April 17, 2015Advisor: Rachel Wilson
Non linear s mulus integra on in olfactory behavior_______________
Returned to Harvard Medical School
Luke Bogart, Ph.D.B.A., Rochester University
Entered 2009 * Defended August 14, 2015Advisor: Takao Hensch
Synap c speci city and plas city in parvalbumin basket cell circuits_______________
Plans uncertain as of August 2015
Anna Chambers, Ph.D.B.A., Johns Hopkins University
Entered 2009 * Defended December 9, 2014Advisor: Daniel Polley
Progressive recovery of cor cal and midbrain sound feature encodingFollowing profound cochlear neuropathy
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Mainz—Rumpel Lab
Timothy Dunn, Ph.D.B.A., University of California, BerkeleyEntered 2009 * Defended April 20, 2015
Advisor: Florian EngertBrain wide neural dynamics underlying looming evoked escapes
and spontaneous explora on_______________
Postdoctoral FellowHarvard University Engert Lab
Jessica Hauser, Ph.D.B.A., Oberlin College
Entered 2009 * Defended July 17, 2014Advisor: Chinfei Chen
Mechanisms Shaping Excitatory Transmissionat the Developing Re nogeniculate Synapse
_______________Returned to Baylor College of Medicine
to complete MD/Ph.D. program
David Hildebrand, Ph.D.B.A., Northeastern University
Entered 2009 * Defended March 23, 2015Advisor: Florian Engert
Whole brain func onal and structural examina onin larval zzebra sh_______________
Postdoctoral FellowThe Rockefeller University—Freiwald Lab
Tilly Kimm, Ph.D.B.A., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2009 * Defended December 3, 2014
Advisor: Bruce BeanPotassium and Sodium Currents Regula ng
Pacemaking and Burst Firing in Substan a Nigra Dopamine Neurons_______________
Professional Tango Dancer
Dimitar Kostadinov, Ph.D.B.A., McGill University
Entered 2009 * Defended May 13, 2015Advisor: Joshua Sanes
Mechanism and func on of dendri c self avoidance and self/non selfdiscrimina on in the mammalian nervous system
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
University College London—Hausser Lab
Andrew Lutas, Ph.D.B.A., Pennsylvania State University
Entered 2009 * Defended April 7, 2015Advisor: Gary Yellen
Cellular Metabolism Modulates Ion Channelsthat Regulate Neuronal Excitability
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School—Andermann Lab
Caleigh Mandel BrehmB.A., University of Wisconsin—Madison
Entered 2009 * Defended October 28, 2015Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
A Behavioral and Molecular Approachfor Understanding Angelman Syndrome
_______________Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School—Greenberg Lab
Alicia NugentB.A., University of California, Berkeley
Entered 2009Advisor: Elizabeth Engle
_______________S ll enrolled
Stanislav PashkovskiB.S., Brandeis University
Entered 2009Advisor: Sandeep Robert Da a
_______________S ll enrolled
Rebecca Reh, Ph.D.B.A., University of Washington
Entered 2009 * Defended July 16, 2015Advisor: Takao Hensch
A rapid peak in gamma power signals cri cal period plas cityin the developing mouse visual cortex
_______________
Plans uncertain as of August 2015
Jason Yamada Han , Ph.D.B.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 2009 * Defended December 16, 2014Advisor: Bruce Bean
Regula on of hippocampal pyramidal neuron excitabilityBy subthreshold voltage dependent conductances
_______________Star ng up an educa onal outreach company
(as of August 2015)
Daniel BearB.A., Harvard College
Entered 2010Advisor: Sandeep Robert Da a
_______________S ll enrolled
Rachel DonahueB.A., Bowdoin College
Entered 2010Advisor: William Carlezon
_______________S ll enrolled
Alan EmanuelB.S., Washington State University
Entered 2010Advisor: Michael Do
_______________S ll enrolled
Catherine HartmanB.A., Duke University
Entered 2010Advisor: Michael Wolfe
_______________Withdrew without taking degree
Associate, The Boston Consultant Group
Xun (Helen) HouB.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2010Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
_______________S ll enrolled
Wen Fan Hu, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Yale University
Entered 2010 * Defended June 10, 2014Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
Building a Bigger Brain: Centriole Controleof Cerebral Cor cal Development
_______________Returned to Harvard Medical School
Divya Jayaraman, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Harvard College
Entered 2010 * Defended June 15, 2015Advisor: Christopher A. Walsh
The role of centriole biogenesis in control of brain size_______________
Returned to Harvard Medical School
Wendy Liu, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Princeton University
Entered 2010 * Defended April 14, 2014Advisor: Rachel Wilson
When Hot Is Not the Opposite of Cold:Thermosensory Processing in the Drosophila Brain
_______________Returned to Harvard Medical School
Ian McLachlanB.S., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
Entered 2010Advisor: Maxwell Heiman
_______________S ll enrolled
Daniel MillmanB.A., M.S., Johns Hopkins University
Entered 2010Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy
_______________S ll enrolled
Sarah PeaseB.S., Brandeis University
Entered 2010Advisor: Rosalind Segal
_______________S ll enrolled
Alexander Murphy, Ph.D.B.A., Massachuse s Ins tute of TechnologyEntered 2010 * Defended April 30, 2015
Advisor: Je rey MacklisRNA and protein networks that locally control brain wiring
during development_______________
ConsultantMcKinsey & Company
Michael Susman, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Stanford University
Entered 2010 * Defended June 24, 2015Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
The Wnt5a Ror Signaling Pathway in the Morphogenesisof the Embryo
_______________Returned to Harvard Medical School
Taralyn TanB.S., Oregon State University
Entered 2010Advisor: Sandeep Robert Da a
_______________S ll enrolled
Ju TianB.E., Tsinghua University
Entered 2010Advisor: Naoshige Uchida
_______________S ll enrolled
David Roberson, Ph.D.B.A., M.B.A., Harding University
Entered 2010 * Defended September 18, 2015Advisor: Cli ord Woolf
Analysis of voluntary behavior to interrogate neural func on_______________
Unknkown
Alexander TroB.S., Brandeis University
Entered 2010Advisor: Rick Born
_______________S ll Enrolled
Caroline WeeB.A., Cornell University
Entered 2010Advisor: Florian Engert
_______________S ll enrolled
Alexander WiltschkoB.E., Tsinghua University
Entered 2010Advisor: Naoshige Uchida
_______________S ll enrolled
Willie TobinB.S., University of California, Santa Cruz
Entered 2010 *Advisor: Rachel Wilson
_______________S ll enrolled
Ryan Dosumu JohnsonB.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Entered 2011Advisor: Susan Dymecki
_______________S ll Enrolled
Laura DriscollB.S., University of California, Berkeley
Entered 2011Advisor: Christopher Harvey
_______________S ll enrolled
Masha BloomB.A., Barnard College
Entered 2011Advisor: Sandeep Robert Da a
_______________S ll enrolled
Lauren CarvalhoA.B., Harvard College
Entered 2011 * Withdrew July 26, 2013Advisor: Venkatesh Murthy
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Withdrew without degreeEnrolled at Tu s Veterinary School
Nick JikomesB.S., University of Wisconsin, Madison
Entered 2011Advisor: Mark Andermann
_______________S ll enrolled
Mounir Koussa, Ph.D.B.A., University of Arizona
Entered 2011 * Defended April 15, 2015Advisor: David Corey
The Biophysics of Vertebrate Hearing: A Single Molecule Approach_______________
Founder of Canary, Inc.
GaYoung LeeB.S., Korea Advanced Ins tute of Science and Technology
Entered 2011Advisor: Tom Schwarz
_______________S ll enrolled
Neir Eshel, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Princeton University
M.S.C., University College, LondonEntered 2011 * Defended May 9, 2014
Advisor: Naoshige UchidaArithme c and Local Circuitry Underlying Dopamine Predic on Errors
_______________Returned to Harvard Medical School
Jinyue LiuB.A., Cambridge University
Entered 2011Advisor: Joshua Sanes
_______________S ll enrolled
Ellio MilnerB.A., Oberlin College
Entered 2011Advisor: Michael Do
_______________S ll enrolled
Zhihao (Thomas) LuoA.B., Harvard College
Entered 2011Advisor: John Maunsell
_______________S ll enrolled
Elizabeth LitvinaB.A., M.A., Wesleyan University
Entered 2011Advisor: Chinfei Chen
_______________S ll enrolled
Nicole NeubarthB.A., University of Chicago
Entered 2011Advisor: David Ginty
_______________S ll enrolled
Tim OtchyB.A., Georgia State University
M.A., Tu s UniversityB.S., Georgia Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2011Advisor: Bence Ölveczky
_______________S ll enrolled
Shay NeufeldB.S., McGill University
Entered 2011Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
_______________S ll enrolled
Ari MorcosB.S., University of California, San Diego
Entered 2011Advisor: Christopher Harvey
_______________S ll enrolled
Alex SimonB.A., Lewis and Clark College
Entered 2011Advisor: Michela Fagiolini
_______________S ll enrolled
Gregory SousaB.S., Bates College
Entered 2011 * Withdrew September 1, 2011
_______________Withdrew without degree
Enrolled in University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School
Priya Srikanth, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Washington University
Entered 2011 * Defended May 11, 2015Advisor: Dennis Selkoe
Schizophrenia relevant DISC1 interrup on reveals subtle altera onsin Wnt signaling and cell fate in human iPSC derived neurons
_______________Returned to Harvard Medical School
Hye Yeon Park, A.M.B.S., M.S., Korea Advanced Ins tute of Science and TechnologyEntered 2011 * Withdrew with Master’s degree 11/14/2014
Advisor: Maria Leh nen
_______________Scien st
Novar s, Inc.
Zhaoying XuB.A., Grinnell College
Entered 2011Advisor: Je rey Macklis
_______________S ll enrolled
Zhanlei YeB.Sc., Beijing University
Entered 2011Advisor: Takao Hensch
_______________S ll enrolled
Zhiqi (Candice) YipB.S., University of Southern California
Entered 2011Advisor: Maxwell Heiman
_______________S ll enrolled
Erika WilliamsB.A., Williams College
Entered 2011Advisor: Steve Liberles
_______________S ll enrolled
Gregory BrymanB.S., University of Rochester
Entered 2012Advisor: Michael Do
_______________S ll enrolled
Selmaan Che hB.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 2012Advisor: Christopher Harvey
_______________S ll enrolled
Benjamin AndreoneB.S., University of Maryland—College Park
Entered 2012Advisor: Chenghua Gu
_______________S ll enrolled
YunXiang Chu, M.D./Ph.D.B.A., Stanford University
Entered 2012 * Defended April 15, 2014Advisor: Wade Regehr
The Role of Protein Kinase C in Short Term Plas city_______________
Returned to Harvard Medical School
Ershela DurresiB.S., M.S., Yale University
Entered 2012Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
_______________S ll enrolled
Richard HeldB.S., Tulane University
Entered 2012Advisor: Pascal Kaeser
_______________S ll enrolled
Michael CoulterA.B., Harvard College
Entered 2012Advisor: Christopher Walsh
_______________S ll enrolled
Benyam KindeB.S., University of Maryland—Bal more County
Entered 2012Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
_______________S ll enrolled
Ma hias MindererB.S., University of California, San Diego
Entered 2012Advisor: Christopher Harvey
_______________S ll enrolled
Tara RaamB.S., University of California, San Diego
Entered 2012Advisor: Amar Sahay
_______________S ll enrolled
Gil MandelbaumB.S., Tel Aviv University
Entered 2012Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
_______________S ll enrolled
Rohan RameshB.S., Brown University
Entered 2012Advisor: Mark Andermann
_______________S ll enrolled
Christopher TzengB.A., Rice University
Entered 2012Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
_______________S ll enrolled
Hugo Vega RamirezB.S., University of California, Davis
Entered 2012Advisor: Amar Sahay
_______________S ll enrolled
Hannah SomhegyiB.A., Lewis and Clark College
Entered 2012Advisor: Dragana Rogulja
_______________S ll enrolled
Chris na WelshB.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2012Advisor: Beth Stevens
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Andrea YungB.S., Stanford University
Entered 2012Advisor: Lisa Goodrich
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Alex BatchelorB.A., Cambridge University
Entered 2013Advisor: Rachel Wilson
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Yuwen WuB.A., University of Chicago
Entered 2012Advisor: Beth Stevens
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Michael BukwichB.S., New York University
Entered 2013Advisor: Naoshige Uchida
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Brian ChowB.S., University of California, San Diego
Entered 2013Advisor: Chenghua Gu
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Nicholas DeSte noB.S., B.A., University of Pi sburgh
Entered 2013Advisor: Jesse Gray
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Chester ChiaB.A., Rutgers University
Entered 2013Advisor: Lisa Goodrich
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Michelle FrankB.A., Saint Olaf College
Entered 2013Advisor: Dragana Rogulja
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Grigori GuitchountsB.A., Boston University
Entered 2013Advisor: David Cox
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Chong GuoB.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S., Cornell UniversityEntered 2013
Advisor: Wade Regehr
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Morgan FreretB.S., Stanford University
Entered 2013Advisor: Susan Dymecki
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James HarrisB.A., Bowdoin College
Entered 2013Advisor: Paola Arlo a
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Kee Wui HuangB.S., M.S., Stanford University
Entered 2013Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
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Minsuk HyunB.S., Stanford University
Entered 2013Advisor: Bernardo Saba ni
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Stephen HoltzB.S., University of Virginia
Entered 2013Advisor: Rachel Wilson
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Robert JohnsonB.S., Washington University
Entered 2013Advisor: Florian Engert
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Angela KimB.S., Yonsei University
M.S., Korea Ins tute of Science and TechnologyEntered 2013
Advisor: Bradford Lowell
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Elizabeth LamkinB.S., Haverford College
Entered 2013Advisor: Maxwell Heiman
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Jessleen KanwalB.S., University of Virginia
Entered 2013Advisor: Aravinthan Samuel
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Sung Ling (Dean) LeeB.S., University of California, Los Angeles
Entered 2013Advisor: Paola Arlo a
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Ivan San agoB.S., M.A., City College of New York
Entered 2013Advisor: Ma hew Pecot
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Bryan SongB.S., University of Texas, Aus n
Entered 2013Advisor: Dragana Rogulja
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Aleksandr (Sasha) RayshubskiyB.S., M.Eng., Cornell University
Entered 2013Advisor: Rachel Wilson
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Stephen ThornquistB.S., Washington University
Entered 2013Advisor: Michael Crickmore
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Huaiying (Shan Shan) WangB.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2013Advisor: Pascal Kaeser
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Xingjie (Stephen) ZhangB.A., Grinnell College
Entered 2013Advisor: Dragana Rogulja
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Josef TurecekB.S., University of Washington
Entered 2013Advisor: Wade Regehr
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Asa Barth MaronB.S., Lehigh University
Entered 2014Advisor: Rachel Wilson
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Cesar EchavarriaB.S., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2014Advisor: David Cox
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Kelly GirskisB.A., University of Southern California
Entered 2014Advisor: Christopher Walsh
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Ma hew BaumB.S., M.S., Yale UniversityM.Sc., University of Dublin
Entered 2014Advisor: Beth Stevens
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Vivian HemmelderB.Sc., Universiteit van Amsterdam
Entered 2014Advisor: Naoshige Uchida
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Kris ne LyonB.A., Lewis and Clark College
Entered 2014Advisor: Susan Dymecki
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Michael MarquisB.S., Arizona State University
Entered 2014Advisor: Rachel Wilson
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Aziz KarakhanyanB.A., Rutgers University
Entered 2014Advisor: Ma hew Pecot
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Eric MulhallB.S., University of California, Santa Cruz
Entered 2014Advisor: David Corey
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Aurel NagyB.S., Brown University
Entered 2014Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
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Paola PatellaB.S., University of GenoaM.Sc., University of Trento
Entered 2014Advisor: Rachel Wilson
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Sivapratha Nagappan Che arB.A., University of California, Berkeley
Entered 2014Advisor: Hisashi Umemori
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Noah Pe tB.Sc., University College London
Entered 2014Advisor: Christopher Harvey
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Nesibe TemizB.S., M.Sc., University of Bogazici
Entered 2014Advisor: Cli ord Woolf
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He YangB.S., Tsinghua University
Entered 2014Advisor: Sam Kunes
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Rachel Rei RodinB.S., Emory University
Entered 2014Advisor: Christopher Walsh
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Ee Lynn YapB.S., Yale University
Entered 2014Advisor: Michael E. Greenberg
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James BohnslavA.B., Harvard College
Entered 2015
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Senan EbrahimA.B., Harvard College
Entered 2015Advisor: Syd Cash
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Qiyu ZhangB.S., Brandeis University
Entered 2014Advisor: David Ginty
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Alexander GrebenB.Sc., McGill University
Entered 2015
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Xiaomeng (Mona) HanB.S., Tsinghua University
Entered 2015
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Lingfeng HouB.S., Tsinghua University
Entered 2015
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Allison HamilosSc.B., Massachuse s Ins tute of Technology
Entered 2015
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Narendra JoshiB.A., Amherst College
Entered 2015
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Emma KrauseB.S., Davidson College
Entered 2015
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Lauren KershbergB.A., Pomona College
Entered 2015
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Jae Eon LeeB.S., Korea Advanced Ins tute of Science and Technology
Entered 2015
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Kelly McGuireA.B., Sc.B., Brown University
Entered 2015
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Alexandra MooreB.S., University of Oregon
Entered 2015
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Rebecca SenB.A., Swarthmore College
Entered 2015
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Clara StarkweatherB.S., Duke University
Entered 2015Advisor: Naoshige Uchida
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Aniqa TasnimB.A., Johns Hopkins University
Entered 2015
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Nivanthika WimalasenaA.B., Harvard College
Entered 2015
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