Author Archives: Sue Modlin

On March 3rd, Janay Franklin (Reissner Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Investigating cytoskeletal mediators of nucleus accumbens astrocyte structure and cocaine seeking behavior”. Congratulations Janay!!

Ryan is a graduate student in the lab of Dr. Joyce Besheer and was awarded a two-year NIH F31 Research Fellowship. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from the College of William and Mary and afterward, worked as a post-bac in the Laboratory of Neuroimaging at NIAAA before starting at...

On January 12th, Hannah Bazick (Zylka Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Characterizing single-target AAV-Cas9 editing outcomes to improve Ube3a-ATS knockdown in neurons”. Congratulations Hannah!!

On November 18th, Keeley Spiess (Deshmukh Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Examining the role of miR-29 in brain maturation”.  Congratulations Keeley!!

On December 15th, Siddhi Ozarkar (Philopt Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is “White matter pathology in Angelman Syndrome”. Congratulations Siddhi!!

On December 4th, Rahul Patel (Zylka Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is “Scaled Analysis of Genetic and Pharmacological Targets of Spontaneous Pain”. Congratulations Rahul!!

On October 29th, Sean Gay (Diering Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is “Investigating the impact of sleep loss on development”. Congratulations Sean!

On October 27th, Arianna Cascone (Jessica Cohen Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is “Categorical and dimensional investigations of dynamic functional connectivity and behavior during response inhibition in children with and without ADHD”. Congratulations Arianna!

On August 24th, Jesse Niehaus successfully defended his PhD Thesis: “Single-cell RNA-sequencing reveals novel spinal cord contributions to neuropathic pain”.  Mentor:  Dr. Mark Zylka.  Jesse will postdoc at UNC with Dr. Greg Scherrer.  Congratulations Jesse!

On July 13th, Mason Riley (Philpot Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is “Identity of UBE3A substrates and cause of seizure susceptibility in Angelman syndrome”. Congratulations Mason!