Current Student Biosketch
Polina Shindiapina
Program Year: 8th (M4)
Mentor: Charles Barlowe (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: Vanderbilt University
PhD Thesis: Requirements for Transitional Endoplasmic Reticulum (tER) Site Structure and Function in Saccharomyces Cerevisiae
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Liya Roudiaia
Program Year: 8th (M4)
Mentor: Nancy Speck (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: McGill University
PhD Thesis: Characterization of domains improtant for the functions of Core Binding Factor translocation products
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Matt Wood
Program Year: 8th (M4)
Mentor: Yolanda Sanchez (Pharmacology-Toxicology)
Undergraduate Institution: Carnegie Mellon University
PhD Thesis: Budding Yeast Discovery Tools for Neurofibromatosis Type 1
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Ryan Horvath
Program Year: 8th (M4)
Mentor: Joyce DeLeo (Neuroscience)
Undergraduate Institution: Rutgers University
PhD Thesis: The Role of Microglia in Morphine Tolerance
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Broc Burke
Program Year: 7th (M3)
Mentor: Solomon Diamond (Biomedical Engineering)
Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University
PhD Thesis: The Development of Magnetic Susceptibility Weighted Magnetoencephalography
Jonathan Kleen
Program Year: 7th (M3)
Mentor: Greg Holmes (Neuroscience)
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
PhD Thesis: Characteristics and Mechanisms of Cognitive Impairment in Epilepsy
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Christina Megli
Program Year: 7th (M3)
Mentor: Ron Taylor (Microbiology)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Arizona
PhD Thesis: Characterization of TcpF, a colonization factor in V. cholerae
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Samuel Bakhoum
Program Year: 7th (M3)
Mentor: Duane Compton (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: Simon Fraser University
PhD Thesis: Mechanism of Chromosomal Instability in Cancer
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Mike Miller
Program Year: 7th (M3)
Mentor: Surachai Supattapone (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: Grinnell College
PhD Thesis: Formation and Interactions of Infectious Prions
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Pablo Valdes
Program Year: 6th (post-doc year)
Mentor: David Roberts and Keith Paulsen (Biomedical Engineering)
Undergraduate Institution: The Florida International University
PhD Thesis:5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX florescence as an intraoperative biomarker for brain tumors; detection methods and biological correlates
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Valerie Jacobs
Program Year: 6th (P4)
Mentor: Joyce DeLeo (Neuroscience)
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University
PhD Thesis: Propentofylline as a novel therapy for Glioblastoma Multiforme
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Andrew Giustini
Program Year: 6th (P4)
Mentor: Jack Hoopes (Biomedical Engineering)
Undergraduate Institution: Santa Clara University
PhD Thesis: Modification of the tumor environment for enhancement of magnetic nanoparticle cancer treatment
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Stephanie Murphy
Program Year: 6th (P4)
Mentor: T. Y. Chang (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
PhD Thesis: ACAT Inactivation In a Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease
Laura Yasaitis
Program Year: 6th (P4)
Mentor: Jonathan Skinner (The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice)
Undergraduate Institution: Dartmouth College
PhD Thesis: Patients' Preference, Quality of Care, and Outcomes in Spatial Model of the US Health Care System
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Chris Audu
Program Year: 5th (P3)
Mentor: Dale Mierke (Chemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University--Indianapolis
PhD Thesis: Towards a drug candidate against BK virus associated nephropathy: Targeting the sialic acid receptor binding sites on the viral coat protein (VP1) of BK virus.
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Fadzai Chinyengetere
Program Year: 5th (P3)
Mentor: Ethan Dmitrovsky (Oncology)
Undergraduate Institution: Smith College
PhD Thesis: Ubp43 As A Druggable Target in Lung Cancer
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Ivy Ran
Program Year: 5th (P3)
Mentor: Mark Israel (Oncology, Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: The Ohio State University
PhD Thesis: Oncogenic signaling and its regulation on energy homeostasis in glioma
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Kelly Michaelsen
Program Year: 5th (P3)
Mentor: Brian Pogue (Biomedical Engineering)
Undergraduate Institution: Dartmouth College
PhD Thesis: Breast Tomosynthesis Guided Near Infrared Spectroscopy
Cynthia Hahn
Program Year: 4th (P2)
Mentor: Chris Lowrey (Pharmacology-Toxicology)
Undergraduate Institution: Amherst College
PhD Thesis: Role of Stress Signaling in Translational Control of Fetal Hemoglobin Induction
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Adina Fischer
Program Year: 4th (P2)
Mentor: Alan Green (Psychiatry)
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD Thesis: The effect of Cannabis on Default Mode Network Connectivity in Schizophrenia
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Geoff Noble
Program Year: 3rd (P1)
Mentor: Surachai Supattapone (Biochemistry)
Undergraduate Institution: University of British Columbia
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Jie Deng
Program Year: 3rd (P1)
Mentor: James Gorham (Immunology)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Florida
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Yike Jiang
Program Year: 2nd (M2)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Maryland
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Damian Almiron
Program Year: 2nd (M2)
Undergraduate Institution: Earlham College
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Diana Chernikova
Program Year: 1st( M1)
Undergraduate Institution: University of California - Berkeley
Ana-Maria Dumitru
Program Year: 1st (M1)
Undergraduate Institution: University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
David Qian
Program Year: 1st (M1)
Undergraduate Institution: Dartmouth College
Casey Hua
Program Year: 1st (M1)
Undergraduate Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alex Bender
Program Year: 1st (P2)
Mentor: Greg Holmes (Neuroscience)
Undergraduate Institution: Bowdoin College
PhD Thesis: Effects of SCN1A mutations on cognitive function: Implications for Dravet syndrome