Author Archives: Sue Modlin

On November 14th, Lucas James successfully defended his PhD Thesis: “Leveraging Genetic Models to Guide Therapeutic Development for Neurodevelopmental Disorders”. Mentors: Dr. Ben Philpot and Dr. Mark Zylka.  Congratulations Dr. James!

On November 6th, Preston Sieglers successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Prenatal Corticosterone Treatment Impacts Hippocampal Development and Adult Behavior: A Focus on Area CA2”. Mentor: Dr. Serena Dudek.  Congratulations Dr. Siegler!!

On November 3rd, Ariana Marquez Gonzalez (Stein Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “GxF interactions in ASD: identifying genetic variants modulating response to valproic acid in human cortical organoids”. Congratulations Ariana!!

On September 22nd, Reagan Bullins (PhD student in Hantman Lab) was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke entitled “Determining the neuroplasticity role of inhibitory NDNF neurons in motor execution and learning”. Congratulations, Reagan!

On October 7th, Breana Dogan (Baldwin Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Investigating the role of astrocytic hepaCAM in synaptic organization and neurodevelopmental phenotypes”. Congratulations Breana!!

On September 9th, Katherine Degner (PhD student in Won Lab) was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism entitled “Developing Systemic in vivo Massively Parallel Reporter Assay to Elucidate the Genetic Etiology of Problematic Alcohol Use”. Congratulations, Katherine!

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!!