Author Archives: Sue Modlin

On March 24th, Shannon Rhoads (Cohen, Sarah/Cohen, Todd Labs) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Multispectral imaging of organelles in neurodegeneration”. Congratulations Shannon!!

On February 8th, Samantha Chéry (Morrow Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Characterization of neuroimmune actions of (3α,5α)3-hydroxypregnan-20-one in alcohol preferring (P) rat brain”. Congratulations Samantha!!

On March 16th, Rachel Corr successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “The Adolescent Neural Acute Stress Response – Psychosocial Correlates and the Influence of Polyvictimization”.  Mentor:  Dr. Aysenil Belger.  Rachel is looking forward to a career working for a healthcare tech company, doing data analysis or software development, upon graduation this...

On March 16th, Morrent Thang (Hingtgen Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “Combining Induced Neural Stem Cell Therapy and Immunomodulation in Glioblastoma”. Congratulations Morrent!!

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!!