Category: News

On March 13th, Gates Schneider (Kato Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Investigating the Insular Auditory Field and its role in sound-guided associative behavior”. Congratulations Gates!!

On March 13th, Julia Lanfersieck (Todd Cohen Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Tau Depletion as a Therapeutic Strategy for Alzheimer’s Disease”. Congratulations Julia!!

On March 16th, Felix Kyere successfully defended his PhD Thesis: “Chd8 haploinsufficiency leads to molecular layer heterotopias and age-dependent cortical expansion”. Mentor: Dr. Jason Stein.  Congratulations Dr. Kyere!!

On March 12th, Laura Perrault (Song Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Feeding the Brain Fog: How Diet Disrupts Somatostatin Interneuron Function”. Congratulations Laura!!

On February 23th, Jaesung Yoo (Adam Hantman and Kanaka Rajan Labs) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “Data-constrained recurrent neural networks as in-silico models for investigating circuit dysfunction in Angelman Syndrome”. Congratulations Jaesung!!

On February 20th, Seth Tart (Khan Lab) successfully defended and passed his oral qualifying exam! The title of his research proposal is, “The Impact of Astrocyte Primary Cilia Loss in Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology and Progression”. Congratulations Seth!!

On October 30th, Kayla Richardson (Parnell Lab) successfully defended and passed her oral qualifying exam! The title of her research proposal is, “Transcriptomic investigation of the developing neural plate in an FASD mouse model”. Congratulations Kayla!!

On November 21st, Sara Conley successfully defended her PhD Thesis: “Glutamate Delta-1 Receptors Influence Tonic and Synaptic Excitatory Signaling in the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis”. Mentor: Dr. Zoe McElligott.  Congratulations Dr. Conley!!

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!!