Neuroscience
Students

Graduate Program in Neuroscience



2007 Students

Loai Alzghoul
Current Lab Rotation Mentor - Dr. Jeffery Love

Department - Pharmacology and Toxicology

Research Topic - The Effect of alcohol on the electrophysiological properties of cells by patch-clamp technique.

Justin Cobb
Current Lab Rotation Mentor - Dr. Craig Stockmeier

Department - Psychiatry & Human Behavior

Research Topic - I am continuing my work under Dr. Stockmeier to estimate total numbers of neurons and glial cells in hippocampus in major depressive disorder (MDD) in light of previous neuroimaging findings that suggest a smaller total volume of the hippocampus in MDD.

Benjamin Downer
Current Lab Rotation Mentor -  Dr. Parminder Vig
Department - Neurology

Research Topic - I am researching glial affects on the pathogenic process in spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA-1).

Kedra Wallace
Current Lab Rotation Mentor –  Dr. William Bennett
Department - Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research Topic - The role of intrauterine insults on the neuroimmune response in the developing brain.

2008 Students

Samuel Adeosun
Current Lab Rotation Mentor - Dr. Abiye Iyo
Department - Psychiatry & Human Behavior

Research Topic - I'm studying the (1) Role of FEV in the regulation of other Serotonn related transcription factors and (2) possible basis of gender varieation in the expression of serotonin-related transcreiption factors in depression (Effects of Estrogen on Serotonin-related transcreiption factors e.t.c.).

Donald Green
Current Lab Rotation Mentor - Dr. Ian Paul
Department - Psychiatry & Human Behavior


 

Tamara Williams
Current Lab Rotation Mentor
Department - Medical Student Training