Author Archives: Sue Modlin

On September 11th, Samantha Zarnick (Stein Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Genetic variation influencing chromatin interactions in the developing cortex (part I) and Modeling clozapine response in treatment resistant schizophrenia using cortical organoids (part II)”. Congratulations Sam!!

On September 5th, Katherine Descant (Philpot Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Phenotyping and gene therapy intervention for IMPG2-associated retinal degeneration”. Congratulations Katherine!!

On June 12th, Hannah Nourie (Philpot Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Progress toward characterization of a small molecule therapeutic for Angelman syndrome”. Congratulations Hannah!!

On July 1st, Pierre Llorach (Walsh Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “MDMA restores corico-accumbal signaling and rescues autism-related social deficits”. Congratulations Pierre!!

Congratulations to Preston Siegler for being selected as a 2025 SBN Elsevier Scholar Awardee!! Elsevier and SBN recognizes 5 early-career investigators as Elsevier Behavioral Neuroendocrinology Awardees. Awardees can be trainees such as graduate students, postdocs, or research fellows/faculty, or non-tenure track and pre-tenure principal investigators. The awardee must attend the...

On March 31st, Grace Ross successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Switching state to stay engaged: The dynamic synchronization of the frontoparietal network in sustained attention”. Mentor: Dr. Flavio Frohlich.  Congratulations Dr. Ross!!

On March 27th, Shannon Rhoads successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Illuminating neuron and astrocyte physiology through organelle signature analysis”. Mentors: Dr. Sarah Cohen and Dr. Todd Cohen.  Congratulations Dr. Rhoads!!

On March 11th, Miguel Cuevas Melendez (Stein Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “Engineering synaptic plasticity in advanced maturation cortical organoids harboring an intellectual disability-associated mutation”. Congratulations Miguel!!

On March 5th, Siddhi Ozarkar successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “White matter in neurotypical development and Angelman syndrome”. Mentor: Dr. Ben Philpot.  Congratulations Dr. Ozarkar!!

On March 4th, Blake Fordyce (Roth Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “The nanoscale organization of 5-HT2A receptors”. Congratulations Blake!!