UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
2007
Florian Merkle, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Julie Pinkston, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Matt Wanat, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Hillel Adesnik, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
July 27, 2007
The Lineage and Diversity of Postnatal Neural Stem Cells
(Starting January 2008) Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Alex Schier,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University,
http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/index.html
fmerkle@gmail.com
Cynthia Kenyon
July 10, 2007
The Link Between Aging and Tumor Growth
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Genentech,
Building 15, Room 2065, 460 Point San Bruno Boulevard, South San
Francisco, CA 94080
pinkston.julie@gene.com; Cell phone: 610-724-7556
Antonello Bonci
June 26, 2007
From Ion Currents to Behavior: The Exciting Role of CRF on VTA Dopamine
Neurons
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Laboratory of Paul Phillips, Univ. of WA,
Seattle
http://depts.washington.edu/pemplab/
Roger Nicoll
June 26, 2007
Molecular Mechanisms Governing Synaptic Strength at Hippocampal
Synapses
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Massimo Scanziani, UCSD
Hillel.adesnik@ucsf.edu
Cory Blaiss, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Patricia Janak
June 8, 2007
Formation and maintenance of appetitive Pavlovian associations
Postdoctoral Fellow, Patricia Janak Lab, UCSF
Cory.blaiss@ucsf.edu
Kathy Nagel, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Allison Doupe
June 8, 2007
Auditory Processing and Perception in Songbirds
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Rachel Wilson, Harvard Medical School
http://wilson.med.harvard.edu/
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
David Schoppik, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Steve Lisberger
June 7, 2007
Explorations into the Neural Basis of Dynamic Behavior
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Alex Schier, Harvard
http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/Faculty/Schier.html
Jeremy Cholfin, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
John Rubenstein
March 19, 2007
Genetic Regulation of Prefrontal Cortex Development
UCSF Medical Student
Jeremy.cholfin@ucsf.edu
2006
Daniel Paskowitz, Ph.D.
Ph.D. with:
Thesis Completion Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Jacob Bollinger, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Kaiwen Kam, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Minoree Kohwi, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Matthew LaVail
December 31, 2006
Endogenous and Exogenous Neuroprotection by Neurotrophic Factors in the
Mammalian Retina
UCSF Medical Student
Daniel.paskowitz@ucsf.edu
Mike Merzenich
December 20, 2006
Adult Auditory Cortical Plasticity Modulated By Stimulus-Paired Locus
Coeruleus Activity
jbolling@phy.ucsf.edu
Roger Nicoll
November 6, 2006
Routes of Vesicular Glutamate in the Presynaptic Terminal
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Jack Feldman, UCLA
UCLA, Department of Neurobiology, CHS Mailcode: 176318, Los Angeles,
CA, 90095-1763; Kaiwen.Kam@ucsf.edu
Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
September 6, 2006
Origins of Neuronal Diversity of Adult Subventricular Zone Neurogenesis
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Chris Q. Doe, Univ. of Oregon
HHMI laboratory, 1254 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; tel: 541346-3041; email: mkohwi@uoneuro.oregon.edu
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Patrick Haddick, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Amy DeIpolyi, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Lily Jan
August 4, 2006
Lost in Translation: How Neuronal Activity Suppresses Local Synthesis of a
Potassium Channel
Postoctoral Fellow, Lily Jan Lab, UCSF
Patrick.haddick@ucsf.edu
Lennart Mucke
August 1, 2006
Neural and Cognitive Substrates of Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Navigation
Deficits.
UCSF Medical Student
Amy.deipolyi@ucsf.edu
Sarah Bauer Huang, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Cornelia Bargmann
Thesis Defense Date: July 21, 2006
Defense Seminar Title: Olfactory neuron asymmetry in C. elegans: OLRN-1 biases lateral signaling
to generate AWCON and AWCOFF fates.
Initial Position: Medical Student, Stanford
Contact: slbauerhuang@gmail.com
Andrew Tan, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Stephanie Albin, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Neal Sweeney, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Christoph Schreiner
May 26, 2006
Patterns of sound-evoked synaptic excitation and inhibition in the auditory
cortex
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mike Wehr Lab, University of Oregon
atyy_73@yahoo.com
Graeme Davis
May 25, 2006
Molecular Mechanisms that Regulate Synaptic Efficacy at the Drosophila
Neuromuscular Junction
Postdoctoral Fellow with Julie Simpson, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Janelia Farm.
Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
19700 Helix Drive, Ashburn, VA 20147, 571.209.4000
Fen-Biao Gao
April 25, 2006
Genetic Analysis of Neuronal Morphogenesis In Vivo.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of John Carlson, Yale
Dept. of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University,
New Haven, CT 06520; ibopa@yahoo.com.
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
John Proctor, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Kira Poskanzer, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Shannon Shields, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Louis Reichardt
March 9, 2006
Please, stop the bleeding! A Functional Investigation of the Integrin β8
Subunit.
Marketing Application Scientist, MDS Sciex
MDS Sciex, 1170 Veterans Blvd., Suite 200, South San Francisco, CA
94080, john.proctor@sciex.com, 650-635-4262
Graeme Davis
January 25, 2006
Detection and Dissection of Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis With Light.
Postdoctoral Fellow with Raphael Yuste, Columbia University
Columbia University, 1002 Fairchild Center, M.C. 2436, New York, NY
10027; (212) 854-5023
Allan Basbaum
January 16, 2006
Anatomical and Functional Analysis of Aquaporin 1 in the Nervous System.
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, A. Basbaum Lab, UCSF
shannon@phy.ucsf.edu
2005
Matt Smear, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Gunther Hollopeter, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Herwig Baier
October 25, 2005
Behavioral Genetic Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Vision
in Zebrafish.
Postdoctoral fellow with Zach Mainen, Cold Spring Harbor Labs, NY.
One Bungtown Road, Cold Spring Harbor, NY 11724, 516-367-8800
David Julius
September 2, 2005
From Blood To Brain: An ADP Receptor Detects Tissue Injury.
Postdoctoral fellow with Erik Jorgensen, Univ. of Utah
Jorgensen Lab, Dept of Biology, University of Utah, 257 S 1400 E Rm 201
Salt Lake Cty, UT 84112-0840; Lab: (801) 585-3304; Fax: (801) 581-2174;
guntherh@gmail.com
Mercedes Paredes, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Scott Baraban
Thesis Defense Date: September 2, 2005
Defense Seminar Title: When Good Brains Go Bad: Mechanisms of Abnormal Development in an
Injury-Induced Model of Cortical Malformations.
Initial Position: UCSF medical student
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Contact:
Mercedes.paredes@ucsf.edu
Joshua Woolley, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Howard Fields
August 19, 2005
The Delicious Brain; How Opioid Signalling Contributes to Flavor Preference.
UCSF Medical Student
Joshua.woolley@ucsf.edu
Paul German, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Mimi Kao, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Michael Orger, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Megan R. Carey, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Howard Fields
June 8, 2005
Hankering for a Good Time: How Accumbens Neurons Encode Conditioned
Place Preference.
Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Howard Fields, UCSF.
Paul.german@ucsf.edu
Allison Doupe
March 30, 2005
Contributions of an Avian Basal Ganglia-Forebrain Circuit to Song Production
and Plasticity.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Allison Doupe, UCSF
Mimi.kao@ucsf.edu
Herwig Baier
January 7, 2005
Defense seminar title: So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish: Psychophysics
and Genetics of Zebrafish Visual Behavior.
Postdoctoral fellow with Florian Engert, Harvard
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
16 Divinity Avenue
Boston, MA 02138
Email: morger@mcb.harvard.edu
Steven Lisberger
January 10, 2005
Monkey See, Monkey Learn: Instructive Signals from Fisual Cortical Area
MT.
Postdoctoral fellow with Wade Regehr, Harvard
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
220 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Email: megan_carey@hms.harvard.edu
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Samuel J. Sober, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Philip Sabes
February 28, 2005
Flexible Strategies for Sensory Integration During Motor Planning.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brainard Lab, UCSF
Univ California San Francisco
Dept Physiol
513 Parnassus Ave Room S-762, Box 0444
San Francisco CA 94143-0444
USA
Work Phone: 415-476-0354
Fax:
415-476-4929
E-mail: sam@phy.ucsf.edu
2004
Linus Tsai, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Contact:
Robin LeWinter, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Jeremy Kay, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Ulrike Heberlein
2004
Identification of molecular and neuroanatomical substrates regulating acute
cocaine sensitvity in Drosophila melanogaster
Medical student at UCSF
Linus.tsai@ucsf.edu
Allan Basbaum
November 16, 2004
TRPV2 Anatomy: Pain and Beyond.
Postdoctoral fellow with Tom Kilduf, SRI, International
SRI, International
Dept Neurobiology
LA 229, 333 Ravenswood Ave
Menlo Park CA 94025
Work Phone: 650-859-4709
E-mail: robin.lewinter@sri.com
Herwig Baier
November 10, 2004
The Blind Leading the Blind: Using Zebrafish Vision Mutants to Illuminate
Retinal Development.
Postdoctoral fellow with Joshua Sanes, Harvard
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Harvard University
16 Divinity Avenue
Boston, MA 02138
Email: jnk@mcb.harvard.edu
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Amanda Kahn-Kirby, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Cornelia Bargmann
Thesis Defense Date: September 13, 2004
Defense Seminar Title: Phat Fats Trip TRPs: Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids Modulate C. elegans
Sensory Behaviors.
Current Position: Staff Scientist, Molecular Biology/Genomics Group
FibroGen, Inc.
225 Gateway Blvd.
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Phone: 650-866-7200; Fax: 650-866-7201
Email: heyamandak@gmail.com
Initial Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Kaveh Ashrafi
Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
Catherine Garabedian, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Steven McCarroll, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Kurt W. Marek, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Michael Merzenich
August 19, 2004
Temporal dynamics of neural coding in rat SI.
Fletcher Spaght, Inc., venture capital firm in Boston.
Fletcher Spaght, Inc.
222 Berkeley Street
20th Floor
Boston, MA 02116
direct: (617) 850-6724
main: (617) 247-6700
fax: (617) 247-7757
email: cg@fletcherspaght.com
Cornelia Bargmann
June 17, 2004
Coming of Age in Metazoa: Using Conservation to Understand Gene
Expression Programs.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Altschuler Lab, Harvard
Massachusetts General Hostpital
617-820-5228
mccarroll@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
Graeme Davis
March 26, 2004
Molecular and phenomenological characterization of synaptic homeostasis at
the Drosophila neuromuscular junction
Postdoctoral fellow with Nick Spitzer, UCSD
UCSD
9500 Gilman Drive Box 0357
San Diego CA 92093
Work Phone: 858-534-2456
Fax:
619-322-0163
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
E-mail Address:
Leonid Gitlin, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Thesis Defense Date:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
kmarek@ucsd.edu
Raul Andino
February 12, 2004
The antiviral potential of mammalian RNA silencing
postdoctoral fellow with Marco Colonna, Washington University School of
Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, Mo. 63110
phone: 314 747-0573
Email: lgitlin@wustl.edu
2003
Anne K. Churchland, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Steven Lisberger
Defense Seminar Title: Representations of eye and image velocity in motion sensitive cortex
Current Position: postdoctoral fellow with Michael Shadlen, Univ. Washington
Contact: Univ Washington, Sch Med
Dept Physiol & Biophysics
Seattle WA 98195-7290
Work Phone: 206-543-7334
E-mail: anne99@u.washington.edu
Nicholas J. Justice, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Yuh-Nung Jan
Defense Seminar Title: Mechanisms underlying neural cell fate specification in the Drosophila
sensory organ precursor lineage
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Wylie Vale, Salk Institute
Contact: Peptide biology laboratory
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
P.O. Box 85800
San Diego, CA 92186-5800
Phone: (858) 453-4100
Email: justice@salk.edu
Joe C. Hao, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Cornelia Bargmann
Genetic analysis of axon guidance and branching in C. elegans
Patent Agent, Townsend, Townsend and Crew, LLP
Townsend, Townsend and Crew, LLP
2175 North California Blvd., Suite 625
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Phone: (925) 472-5000; Direct Dial # (925) 472-6326
Fax: (925) 472-8895
Email: jchao@townsend.com
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
2002
Jessica L. Hanover, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Michael Stryker
Defense Seminar Title: Uncoupling the molecular mechanisms of the timing and amplitude of activitydependent plasticity
Current Position: Investment Firm Chicago, Technology investments
Contact:
Irene A. Yun, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Eric Schnell, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Howard Fields
From environmental cues to behavior : the neural circuitry of motivation
Middle school science teacher, Oakland, CA
Email: ireneyun@stanfordalumni.org
Roger Nicoll
The role of PSD-95 in AMPA receptor clustering and synaptic plasticity
Resident, Department of Anesthesiology, University of California,
San Francisco, CA 94143
Box 0427 , 513 Parnassus Ave, Med Sci
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143 – 0427
schnelle@anesthesia.ucsf.edu
2001
Theodore Moallem, M.A.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Delia Garigan, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Anil Bagri, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Initial Position:
Current Position:
Contact:
Michael Merzenich
medical leave, disability.
Ph.D. student, Harvard-MIT, Division of Health Science and Technology,
Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology Program.
moallem@MIT.EDU
(646) 872-0283
Cynthia Kenyon
Genetic analysis of tissue aging in caenorhabditis elegans
teacher
Catlin Gabel School, 8825 SW Barnes Road, Portland, OR 97225,
503-297-1894
Daniel Lowenstein
Mechanisms of chemorepulsion in the developing forebrain
UCSF medical student
Scientist, Genentech Inc
Genentech Inc,
One DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Phone: (650) 225-2579
Fax:
(650) 467-7565
Email: bagri.anil@gene.com
Aaron W. McGee, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
David Bredt
Biochemical and structural analysis of the SH3GK module from the synaptic
scaffolding protein PSD-95
Postdoctoral fellow with Steve Strittmatter, Yale University
Yale University
P.O. Box 208018
New Haven CT 06511
Work Phone: 203-785-4971
Fax:
203-785-5098
E-mail: aaron.mcgee@yale.edu
Timothy W. Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Cornelia Bargmann
Defense Seminar Title: Cytoskeletal signaling and the regulation of attraction and repulsive axon
guidance in C. elegans
Initial Position: UCSF medical student
Current Position: Neurology Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
Contact: Phone: (617) 670-2792 home; (415) 828-5845 cell
Email: twyu@partners.org
Karla Peterson-Zeitz, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Allan Basbaum
Defense Seminar Title: Molecular mechanisms of persistent pain
Initial Position: Scientist, Elan Pharmaceuticals, Dept Pharmacology, 800 Gateway Blvd,
South San Francisco CA 94080
Current Position: Senior Scientist, Amgen
Contact: Neuroscience, Amgen San Francisco
1120 Veterans Blvd
South San Francisco, CA 94080
650-244-2287
kzeitz@amgen.com
Nicholas J. Priebe, Ph.D.
Ph.D with:
Defense Seminar Title:
Current Position:
Contact:
Steve Lisberger
Constraints on the mechanism of short-term adaptation in area MT
postdoctoral fellow With David Ferster, Northwestern University
Dept Neurobiology
2153 North Campus Dr.
Evanston IL 60208
Work Phone: 847-467-1443
E-mail: nico@northwestern.edu
Byungdoo Alexander Yi, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Lily Jan
Defense Seminar Title: Gating mechanism of G protein-activated K+ channels
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Initial Position:
Current Position:
Contact:
UCSF Medical Student
Resident in Medicine, New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical
College, New York, NY
byungdooyi@yahoo.com
Mark M. Churchland, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Steve Lisberger
Defense Seminar Title: Reconstructing visual speed : behavior, perception, models, and the neural
basis of an illusion of increased speed
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Krishna Shenoy, Stanford
Contact: Dept of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
330 Serra Mall C1SX 312
Stanford CA 94305-4075
Work Phone: 650-723-1921
church@stanford.edu
Elizabeth E. Bellocchio, Ph.D.
Ph.D with: Robert Edwards
Defense Seminar Title: Identification of the vesicular glutamate transporter, VGLUT1
Initial Position: Licensing Associate, Office of Technology Management
University of California, San Francisco, 1294 Ninth Avenue, Suite 1, Box
1209, San Francisco, CA 94143-1209
Phone: (415) 514-2659
Fax: (415) 502-8248
Current Position: Medical Science Liaison, Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research
Institute, US Medical Affairs
Contact: elizabeth.bellochio@bms.com; bellocchio_negrete@msn.com
400 Hebron Circle, Sacramento, CA 95835
cell 925-788-0684
home 916-515-4977
Sharif Taha, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 2001 with Michael Stryker
Title: Molecular substrates of plasticity in the developing visual cortex
Initial position: Visiting Scholar with Howard Fields
Gallo Res Ctr, UC San Francisco
5858 Horton St Suite 200
Emeryville CA 94706
Work Phone: 510-985-3978
E-mail Address: staha@phy.ucsf.edu
Clarissa L. Waites, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2001 with Robert Edwards
Title: Targeting of an integral membrane protein to the regulated secretory pathway
Current position: postdoctoral fellow with Craig Garner, Stanford University
Stanford University Medical Center
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
1201 Welch Road,
Rooms P156-P159
Stanford, CA 94304-5485
(650) 723-4913 lab
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Fax: (650) 498-7761
Email: clarissa@stanford.edu
Rachel I. Wilson, Ph. D.
Ph.D. 2001 with Roger Nicoll
Title: Identification of molecular and neuroanatomical substrates regulating acute cocaine sensitvity in
Drosophila melanogaster
Initial Position: postdoctoral fellow
Current position: Assistant Professor
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
220 Longwood Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 617-432-5569
Fax: 617-734-7557
Email: rachel_wilson@hms.harvard.edu
2000
Charlotte Ann Boettiger, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2000 with Allison Doupe
Title: Cellular mechanisms of plasticity in a neural circuit for song learning
Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Biomedical Research Imaging
Center, Davie Hall, CB #3270, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
27599-3270
Phone: (919)962-2119
Email: cab@unc.edu
Initial position: Associate Investigator, UCSF, Ernest Gallo Clinic & Res. Ctr, 5858 Horton St, Suite 200,
Emeryville CA 94608; 510-985-3973
Charles L. Howe, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2000 with William Mobley
Title: Neutrotrophic signaling endosomes: clathrin-coated vesicles propagate the NGF signal through
the ras/MAPK pathway
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Present position: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Assistant Professor of Neurology, and
Associate Consultant in Neurology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Neurology and Molecular Neuroscience
200 First Street SW Gugg 442C
Rochester MN 55905
Phone: 507-538-4603
howe.charles@mayo.edu
E-mail Address:
Noa Zerangue, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2000 with Lily Jan
Thesis: not in UCSF library. Defense seminar title: Biogenesis of Ion Channels
Current position: Scientist
XenoPort, Inc.
3410 Central Expressway
Santa Clara, CA 95051
Phone: (408) 616-7200
Fax: (408) 616-7210
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Rhea R. Kimpo, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2000 with Allison Doupe
Title: Functional connectivity in a circuit that mediates song learning and behavior
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Jennifer Raymond
Dept Neurobiology
Stanford Univ
299 Campus drive West Fairchild D-200
Stanford CA 94305-5125
Phone: 650-736-1066
Fax:
650-725-3958
rkimpo@stanford.edu
E-mail Address:
Jodie Ann Trafton, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2000 with Allan Basbaum
Title: Studies on the contribution of tachykinin and opioid neuropeptides to spinal cord modulation of
nociceptive input
Current position: Research Health Science Specialist
Center for Health Care Evaluation,
Veterans Administration Palo Alto Health Care System
Adjunct Clinical Instructor
Stanford University School of Medicine
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Phone: 650-493-5000 X224
Email: Jodie.Trafton@med.va.gov
Sarah E. Craven, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 2000 with David Bredt
Title: Synaptic targeting of the postsynaptic protein, PSD-95
Initial position. Postdoctoral fellow with Arnon Rosenthal, Genentech Inc.
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow
Genentech Inc.
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Email: craven@gene.com
1999
Andrew Kayser, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1999 with Kenneth Miller
Title: Studies of the development and mature function of a candidate layer 4 cortical circuit
Initial position: Neurology residency at Massachusetts General Hospital
Current position: postdoctoral fellow with Marc D’Esposito at UC Berkeley
Yu-Qing Cao, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1999 with Allan Basbaum
Title: The contribution of substance P and neurokinin A to nociceptive processing
Initial Position: Postdoctoral fellow with Richard Tsien
Stanford Univ Med Ctr
Dept Mol & Cell Physiol
Beckman Ctr B101
Stanford CA 94305
Phone: 650-736-1610
Fax:
650-725-8021
E-mail: yuqingcao@hotmail.com
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Current Position: Assistant Professor or Anesthesiology
Basic Research Section
Washington University Pain Center
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S Euclid Ave., Campus Box 8054
St. Louis, MO 63110
Tel:
314-362-8554
Fax:
314-362-8334
cell:
314-660-6662
email: caoy@morpheus.wustl.edu
Stephen N. Gomperts, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1999 with Roger Nicoll
Title: Receptor recruitment to excitatory synapse in the hippocampus
Current Position: Fellow in Memory Disorders, MGH and postdoctoral fellow with Matt Wilson, M.I.T.
Massachusetts Gen Hosp
Dept Neurol
34 Ocean Terrace #2
Lynn MA 01902
Phone: 617-290-3961
E-mail: sgomperts@partners.org
Michele M. Solis, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1999 with Alison Doupe
Title: Influences of song experience on the development of selectivity in the Zebra finch forebrain
Current position: Senior fellow with David Perkel
Univ Washington
Dept Psychology
Box 351525
Seattle WA 98195
Phone: 206-616-8348
Fax:
206-685-3157
E-mail: solis@u.washington.edu
Michael A. Silver, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 1999 with Michael Stryker
Title: Presynaptic rearrangements in experience-dependent plasticity in primary visual cortex of the cat
Current position: Assistant Professor of Optometry and Vision Science
University of California, Berkeley
School of Optometry & Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
360 Minor Hall, #2020 Univ California, Berkeley
Berkeley CA 94720-2020
Phone: 510-643-2418
Fax:
510-643-9334
E-mail: masilver@berkeley.edu
Jennifer M. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1999 with Howard Fields
Title: The contribution of the anti-opioid peptide cholecystokinin to morphine analgesia and tolerance
Current position: Postdoctoral fellow V with Howard Fields
Univ California San Francisco
Wheeler Ctr Neurobiol of Addiction
UCSF Box 0453
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
San Francisco CA 94143
Phone: 415-476-4201
E-mail: juniper@itsa.ucsf.edu
Erin Peckol (now Dolan), Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1999 with Cornelia Bargmann
Title: Developmental plasticity in the C. elegans nervous system
Initial position: Staff, Science and Health Education Partnership, UCSF
Current position: Assistant Professor and Outreach Director
Fralin Center for Biotechnology
West Campus Drive, 0346
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061
Phone: (540) 231-2692
E-mail: edolan@vt.edu
Web site: http://www.biotech.vt.edu/outreach/outreach.html
1998
Henry W. Mahnke, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Michael Merzenich
Title: Oscillation and temporal processing in sensory cortex
Initial Position: Consultant, McKenzie and Company
Current position: Vice President, Research and Outcomes
Posit Science Corp.
114 Sansome St.
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: 415-394-3100
Email: henry@positscience.com
R. Christopher DeCharms, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Michael Merzenich
Title
Neural substrates of the perceptual awareness of sound in the cerebral cortex
Initial position: consultant, McKenzie and Company
Current Position: President and CEO
Omneuron Inc.
99 El Camino Real,
Menlo Park, CA 94019
Lee A. Honigberg, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Cynthia Kenyon
Title: The role of the genes dpy-19, unc-40, unc-73, and mig-14 in generating the left/right asymmetric
Q neuroblast migrations in C. elegans
Current position: Scientist,
Departments of Medicinal Chemistry and Biology,
Celera,
180 Kimball Way,
South San Francisco, CA 94080
Deda Gillespie, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 1998 with Michael Stryker
Title: Neurotrophins in development and plasticity of cat primary visual cortex
Current position: Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior
Psychology Building, Room 310
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
McMaster University
1280 Main St. W.
Hamilton Ontario L8S 4K1
Canada
Phone: 925-522-3000
Fax: 925-529-6225
Email: gilles@mcmaster.ca
Web Site: www.mcmaster.ca/psychology
Noelle D. Dwyer, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Cornelia Bargmann
Title: Odorant receptor localization to olfactory cilia is mediated by ODR-4 and UNC-101
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Dennis O’Leary, Salk Institute;
Current position: postdoctoral fellow with Chris Walsh, Harvard
Harvard Institutes of Medicine
Neurology
HIM/BIDMC 4 Blackfan Circle, Room 807
Boston MA 02115
Future position (effective July 2006): Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, University of
Virginia, Charlottesville.
Ph: 617-667-0866
E-mail: ndwyer@caregroup.harvard.edu
Albert Y. Hsia Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Roger Nicoll
Title: Persistent modifications of excitatory circuitry in the hippocampus
Current position:. Director, Business Development and Program Management
Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp.
91 Hartwell Avenue | Lexington, MA 02421
tel| 781.541.7234 fax| 617.812.4798 cell| 617.515.2998
Email: ahsia@syntapharma.com | www.syntapharma.com
Michael P Kilgard, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Michael Merzenich
Title: Nucleus basalis activity enables spatial and temporal plasticity in rat auditory cortex
Current position: Associate Professor
Department of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Univ Texas Dallas
PO Box 830688
Richardson TX 75083-0688
Phone: 972-883-2339
Fax:
972-883-2491
E-mail: kilgard@utdallas.edu
Maninder Kahlon, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1998 with Alison Doupe
Title: Learning in a cortical motor system
Current position: Director of Research and Workplace Programs
Level Playing Field Institute
543 Howard Street, Fifth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone: 415- 946-3030
E-mail: mkahlon@lpfi.org
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
1997
David D. Eisenstat, M.D., M.A., FRCPC
M.A. 1997 with John Rubenstein
Current position:
Director, Neuro-Oncology (Adult & Pediatric), CancerCare Manitoba
Senior Investigator, Manitoba Institute of Cell Biology
Associate Professor, Departments of Pediatrics & Child Health, Human Anatomy
& Cell Science, and Ophthalmology
Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba
675 McDermot Avenue, Room 5016
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CANADA R3E 0V9
Phone: 204-787-1169 (office/voicemail)
Email: eisensta@cc.umanitoba.ca
Saleem M Nicola, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1997 with Rob Malenka
Title: Modulation of synaptic transmission by psychostimulants and dopamine in the nucleus
accumbens
Current position: Associate Investigator
Gallo Clin & Res Ctr
UCSF Dept of Neurol
5858 Horton St Suite 200
Emeryville CA 94608
Phone: 510-985-3972
E-mail: nicola@phy.ucsf.edu
Kimberly D Tanner, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1997 with Jon Levine
Title: Nociceptor structure and function during vincristine-induced neuropathy in rat
Current position: Assistant Professor
Biology Dept
San Francisco State Univ
1600 Holloway Ave
San Francisco CA 94132
Phone: 415-405-3438
Fax:
415-405-0426
Email: kdtanner@sfsu.edu
George Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1997 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Neurotrophin-3 and trk receptors in the developing mouse trigeminal ganglion
Initial and current position: postdoctoral fellow with Rudiger Klein, Max-Planck-Institute-Martinsreid, FRG.
Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology
Department of Molecular Neurobiology
Am Klopferspitz 18
D-82152 Martinsried
Germany
Email: wilkinso@neuro.mpg.de
Gregory O Hjelmstad, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1997 with Robert Malenka
Title: Mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity in area of the hippocampus
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Howard Fields, Gallo Institute.
Current position: Associate Investigator
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Ernest Gallo Clinic & Res Ctr, UCSF
Dept Neurol
5858 Horton St., Suite 200
Emeryville CA 94608
Phone: 510-985-3927
Fax:
510-985-3101
E-mail: goh@phy.ucsf.edu
Erik M Ullian, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1997 with Peter Sargent
Title: Diversity of neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor expression and function
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Ben Barres, Stanford University
Current position: Assistant Professor, Dept. Ophthalmol & Physiology
University of California
Beckman Vision Center, K323 10 Koret Way
San Francisco CA 94143-0730
Work Phone: 415-476-1314
Fax:
415-476-0336
E,ail: eullian@itsa.ucsf.edu
1996
Jennifer Cummings, M.A., M.D.
M.A. 1996 with Robert Malenka
Initial position: Research with Malenka
Current position: Resident
Department Psychiatry
Box 0984, LPPI RTP
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143 - 0984
Phone: 415-476-7326
Email: jcummings@lppi.ucsf.edu
Sophia Alison Colamarino, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1996 with Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Title: The role of the floor plates and netrin-1 in the unique migration of trochlear motor axons
Initial Positions: postdoctoral fellow with Telethon Inst. Genet & Med, Milan Italy and then Fred Gage,
Salk Institute
Present position: Staff, Research/Science Initiatives
Cure Autism Now
5455 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 715
Los Angeles CA 90036
Phone: 323-549-0500 ext.26
Fax:
323-549-0450
E-mail: scolamarino@cureautismnow.org
Joshua A Gordon, M.D., Ph.D. Ph.D. 1996 with Michael Stryker
Title: Plasticity of the developing visual cortex in normal and mutant mice
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia Univ/NYSPL
Dept Psychiat/Ctr Neurobiol & Behav
1051 Riverside Dr, Unit 87
New York NY 10032
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Phone: 212-543-5309
Fax:
212-543-5356
E-mail: jg343@columbia.edu
Edward S. Ruthazer, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 1996 with Michael Stryker
Title: Development of ocular dominance bands and long-range horizontal connections in ferret visual
cortex
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Hollis Cline, Cold Spring Harbor Labs
Present position: Assistant professor
McGill University
Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University St.
Montreal QC H3A 2B4
Canada
E-mail: edward.ruthazer@mcgill.ca
www.mni.mcgill.ca/cbet.html#Ruthazer
Web site:
Takao Kurt Hensch, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 1996 with Michael Stryker
Title: Development and plasticity of visual cortex : a role for intracortical interactions
Initial and Current position: Group Director, Critical Period Mechanisms Research Group, and Head, Lab
Neuronal Circuit Development
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa
Wako-shi 351-0198
Japan
Phone: 81484679634
Fax:
81484672306
E-mail: hensch@postman.riken.go.jp
Yaping Joyce Liao, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1996 with Lily Jan
Title: Biochemical characterization of G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium channels in
mammalian brain
Initial position: Medical Student 1996-8
Subsequent positions: 1998-2002 residency in neurology at Stanford
Current position: Neurology fellow with Richard Tsien, Stanford
2002-2006 postdoc with Dick Tsien
2005-2006 neuro-ophthalmology fellowship at UCSF
Current support: K08 grant from NINDS and a Burroughs
Wellcome career award
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Stanford University
Beckman Center Room B103
Stanford CA 94304-5345
Phone: 650-725-7564
E-mail: yjliao@stanford.edu
Cristina D. Weaver, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1996 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Molecular interactions that support neurite outgrowth of parasympathetic motoneurons in vitro
Initial position: Science teacher
Current position: High School Biology and Chemistry Teacher
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Menlo School
50 Valparaiso Ave.
Atherton CA 94027
Phone: 650-330-2001 x2359
Email: cweaver@menloschool.org
1995
Richard. D. Hector, M.A., M.PH.
M.A. 1995 with Peter Ohara
Initial position: MPH degree program at U.C.S.D.
Current position: graduate student
Health Services Research,
University of California, Los Angeles,
PO Box 951772,
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772,
Phone: (310) 439 - 2724,
Email: rhectori@ucla.edu
Michael F. DeFreitas, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1995 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Neuronal expression and function of integrin alpha3beta1
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Carla Shatz, U.C. Berkeley
Current position: Manager, Technical Support
Molecular Devices Corporation
1311 Orleans Drive
Sunnyvale CA 94089-1136
Phone: 510-675-6378
Email: miked@axon.com
Naomi T. Robinson, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1995 with Cynthia Kenyon
Title: Genetic analysis of neuroblast migration in caenorhabditis elegans
Initial and current position: science teacher
1994
Julia Ann Walbridge (now Julia Mossbridge), M.A.
M.A. with Howard Fields
Current position: self employed as Personal Life Counsellor in Chicago.
Author: Unfolding: The Perpetual Science of Your Soul's Work. New World Library. 2002.
Email: folding@unfolding.org
Sonya N. Gettner, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1995 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Isolation and functional analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans integrin Bpat-3: a novel integrin beta
subunit
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Carl Olson, University of Pittsburg
Current position: Student,
Pittsburgh School of Pain Management
1312 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
Phone: 412-429-9784 (Work)
Email: sngettner@adelphia.net
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Cynthia Murphy-Erdosh, Ph.D. (now Cynthia Scholes)
Ph.D. 1994 with Louis Reichardt
Title: The molecular function and embryonic expression of B-cadherin and cadherin associated
proteins
Current position: Science Teacher
Urban School
1563 Page Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Email: cmeclimbin@aol.com
Monica L Vetter, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1994 with J. Michael Bishop
Title: Regulation of PC12 cell differentiation by tyrosine kinases
Initial position: Postdoctoral fellow with Yuh-Nung Jan
Current position: Associate Professor
University of Utah School of Medicine
Dept Neurobiol & Anatomy
517 Wintrobe 20 North 1900 East
Salt Lake City UT 84132
Phone: 801-581-4984
Fax:
801-581-4233
E-mail: monica.vetter@hsc.utah.edu
Jessica Brown, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1994 with Allan Basbaum
Title: Morphological and functional studies of the contribution of the substance P receptor to nociceptive
processing.
Initial Position: Ph.D. graduate student in Clinical Psychology, University of Alabama, Birmingham. She
completed this Ph.D.
Current position: Pain and Rehabilitation Institute at Montclair,
720 Montclair Road, Suite 204,
Birmingham, AL 35213
James H. Sabry, M.D./Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1994 with Marc Kirschner
Title: The role of microtubules in axonal growth and guidance
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with James Spudich, Stanford University
Current position: President and CEO
Cytokinetics Inc
280 E Grand Ave S San Francisco, CA 94080
Phone: (650) 624-3001
Email: jsabry@cytokinetics.com
Marc G. Weisskopf, Ph.D., M.PH.
Ph.D. 1994 with Roger Nicoll
Title: Synaptic transmission and long-term potentiation at the mossy fiber synapse of the hippocampus
Initial position: Intern, U.S. Agency for Internatonal Development, Office of Health and Nutrition,
Washington DC - int'l AIDS policies
Current Position:Research Associate
Department of Occupational Health
Harvard School of Public Health
401 Park Drive, Landmark Center 3-103
P.O.Box 15697, Rm 3-103
Boston MA 02215
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Phone: 617 384 8872
Email: mweissko@hsph.harvard.edu
1993
Margaret J Bradbury, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1993 with Mary Dallman
Title: Regulation of the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis : manipulations of the hippocampus and of
corticosterone receptor occupancy
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Current position: Scientist,
Neurocrine Biosciences
10555 Science Ctr Dr
San Diego CA 92121
Work Phone: 858-320-7857
Fax:
858-658-7696
E-mail: mbradbury@neurocrine.com
Daniel Goldreich, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1994 with Michael Merzenich
Title: Techniques for brain stabilization and for optical imaging of intrinsic signals in the barrel cortex of
the rat
Associate Professor
Dept Occupational Therapy
Rangos School of Health Sciences
Duquesne University
600 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh PA 15282-0020
Phone: 412-396-4216
Fax: 412-396-4343
E-mail: goldreich@duq.edu
Starting Nov 1, 2005:
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour
Psychology Building (PC), Room 102
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton Ontario L8S 4K1
Canada
Fady I. Malik, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1993 with Ron Vale
Title: High resolution measurements of kinesin-driven microtubule motility
Assistant Clinical Professor of Cardiology
Box 0124, 505 Parnassus Ave, Moffitt
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA. 94143 – 0124
Phone: 650-624-3011
Fax: 650-624-3010
E-mail: fady@itsa.ucsf.edu
David C. Bowen, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1993 with Zach Hall
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Title: Agrin/proteoglycan interactions at the developing mouse neuromuscular junction
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Sam Sisodia, Johns Hopkins Univ.
Present position:
Medicare/Medicaid Legislative Assistant to Senator Edward M. Kennedy
Room: 317 Russell Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4543
Fax: (202) 224-2417
1992
Ron P. Gallemore, M.D., Ph.D. Ph.D. 1992 with Roy Steinberg
Title: Ionic mechanism of the light peak of the DC electroretinogram
Current Position: Physician
Retina-Vitreous Associates Medical Group;
Clinical Instructor, Jules Stein Eye Institute
UCLA
Phone: (213) 483-8810
Email: Retina2000@Yahoo.com
Alberto Franco-Obregon, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1992 with Jeffrey Lansman
Title: A role for mechanosensitive channels during myegenesis and in muscular dystrophy
Initial position: postdoc in Spain.
Current position: Teaching position,
Institut für Biomedizinische Technik
Gloriastrasse 35
ETH-Zentrum, ETZ F 82
CH-8092 Zürich
David J. Perkel, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1992 with Roger Nicoll
Title: Excitatory synaptic transmission and long-term potentiation in the mammalian central nervous
system
Current position: Research Associate Professor
Depts. Bio/Otolaryn
University of Washington
1959 NE Pacific St, HSB 1165 Univ Washington, Box 356515
Seattle WA 98195-6515
Phone: 206-221-2477
Fax:
206-543-5152
E-mail: perkel@u.washington.edu
Web site:
faculty.washington.edu/perkel
1991
Paul A Slesinger, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1991 with Jeffrey Lansman
Title: Inactivation of calcium channels in a mammalian central neuron : a new role for inactivation
Salk Inst
Peptide Biol Lab
10010 N Torrey Pines Rd
La Jolla CA 92037
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Phone: 619-453-4100 ext.1560
Fax:
619-552-1546
E-mail: slesinger@salk.edu
Richard J Krauzlis, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1991 with Steve Lisberger
Title: Visual motion signals underlying pursuit eye movements in monkeys : behavior, models, and
neural responses in the cerebellum
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Fred Miles, N.I.H.
Current position: Associate Professor
Salk Institute
PO Box 85800
San Diego CA 92186
Phone: 858-453-4100 ext.1257
Fax:
858-546-8526
rich@salk.edu
E-mail Address:
Yi Rao, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1991 with Yuh-Nung Jan
Title: Molecular and genetic analyses of cellular communication in drosophila neurogenesis
Department of Neurology
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
303 E. Chicago Avenue, Ward 10-185
Chicago, IL 60611
Tel.: (312)-503-6091
Fax: (312)-503-6089
Email: <y-rao@northwestern.edu>
Website for Rao lab: http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/raolab/
Barbara Chapman, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1991 with Michael Stryker
Title: Studies of primary visual cortex and its development in cat and ferret
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Scott Fraser, Caltech
Current position: Associate Professor
University of California-Davis
Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
1544 Newton Ct
Davis CA 95616
Phone: 530-754-5012
Fax:
530-757-8827
bxchapman@ucdavis.edu
E-mail Address:
Michael D. Jacobson, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1991 with Keith Yamamoto
Title: The structure and regulation of the rat glucocorticoid receptor gene
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Martin Raff
Current position: MDJ Consulting
18 Hollis St
Cambridge MA 02140-1842
Phone: 617-461-8164
Fax:
617-812-4799
E-mail Address:
mdjacobson@comcast.net
http://mdjconsulting.com/
Web site:
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Adam D. Linstedt, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1991 with Regis Kelly
Title: Synaptic vesicle biogenesis : targeting of synaptic vesicle proteins
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Current position: Associate Professor,
Department of Biological Sciences
Carnegie Mellon University
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Phone: 412-268-1249
Fax: 412-268-7129
linstedt@andrew.cmu.edu
Jo Beth DeFreitas, M.A.
M.A. 1991 with Michael Stryker
Current Position: Quality Lead MES Director,
Genentech, Inc.
1 DNA Way
South San Francisco, CA
Phone: 650-225-1000; cell 650-438-3081
jobeth@gene.com
1990
Karla M. Neugebauer, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1990 with Louis Reichardt
Title: The regulated function of integrins and cell adhesion molecules in retinal neuron development
Current position: Group Leader
Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
Pfotenhauerstrasse 108
01307 Dresden
Germany
Email: neugebauer@mpi-cbg.de
Gregg H. Recanzone, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1990 with Michael Merzenich
Title: Changes in the functional organization of the cerebral cortex of adult primates following
improvements in performance of a tactile discrimination task
Current position: Professor
Univ Of California, Davis
Ctr For Neuroscience
1544 Newton Ct
Davis CA 95616
Phone: 530-754-5086
Fax:
530-757-8827
ghrecanzone@ucdavis.edu
E-mail Address:
Scott Mittman, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1990 with David Copenhagen
Title: Excitation of retinal ganglion cells: Pharmacological and voltage-clamp analysis of the roles of NMethyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) and non-NMDA receptors
Current position: Assistant Professor
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
600 North Wolfe Street, Meyer 297, Baltimore, MD 21287-7294
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Office: (410) 955-2544
Fax: (410) 955-8978
E-mail: smittman@jhmi.edu
Holger O. Reiter, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1990 with Michael Stryker
Title: The role of activity, in particular postsynaptic activity, in the ocular dominance plasticity in the
primary visual cortex of the kitten
Recent position: President, Polyglot Language Services
Current position: Owner
Technical Language Service
9109 Eagle Hills Dr.
Las Vegas, NV 89134
ph: 1-866-722-7990 toll-free
ph. 1-702-233-5735
fax: 1-702-973-6009
e-mail: horeiter@tls-translations.com
Website: www.tls-translations.com
1989
Bruce A. Hay, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1989 with Yuh-Nung Jan
Title: Elements required for germ line determination and abdomen specification in Drosophila
embryogenesis
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Gerald Rubin
Current position: Professor
Department of Biology
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA
David B. Reichling, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1989 with Allan Basbaum
Title: Anatomical studies of brainstem-evoked antinociceptive controls
Current position: Assistant Researcher
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, C552
School of Dentistry
University of California
San Francisco, CA 94143-0440
Phone: 415-476-4902
1988
Yong Gu, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1988 with Zach Hall
Title: Immunological studies on the structure and function of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in
mammalian muscle
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with David Morgan, UCSF.
Current position: Staff Scientist
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
130 Waverly Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: 617-444-6100
Fax: 617-444-6680
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Kay Logan, M.A.
No current information.
M.A. 1988 with Steve Lisberger
Richard O. Brown, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1988 with Earl Mayeri
Title: Functions of neuropeptides in the central nervous system of Aplysia
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow at UCSD.
Current position: Staff Scientist,
San Francisco Exploratorium
Phone: 415-353-0483
robrown@exploratorium.edu
Charles Kenneth Kassenbrock, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1988 with Regis Kelly
Title: In vitro studies of immunoglobulin heavy chain binding protein (BiP, GRP78) : interactions of BiP
with newly synthesized proteins and adenine nucleotides
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Current position: Research Faculty
Department of Pathology, Box B-216
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
4200 E Ninth Avenue,
Denver, CO 80262
Phone: 303-415-3787
Email: Ken.Kassenbrock@uchsc.edu
Daniel H. Castillo Aguilar, M.A., M.C
M.A. 1988 with Adrienne Gordon
Current position: Professor
Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Chihuahua
scorza y Venustiano Carranza s/n
Colonía Centro
Chihuahua, Chih. 31000
Mexico
Phone: 52 (14) 39-15-70
Email: dcastill@hotmail.com
Constance S Royden, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1988 with Lily Jan
Title: The molecular analysis of tko, a behavioral mutation in Drosophila melanogaster.
Current position: Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
College of the Holy Cross, Box 116A
Worcester MA 01610-2395
Phone: 508-793-2472
Fax:
508-793-3530
E-mail: croyden@mathcs.holycross.edu
http://mathcs.holycross.edu/~croyden
Website:
Scott A. Nawy, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1988 with David Copenhagen
Title: Analysis of glutamatergic actions in the outer plexiform layer of the goldfish retina.
Current Position: Associate Professor
Department of Opthalmology
Albert Einstein Col Med
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
1410 Pelham Pkwy South Kennedy Bldg. Room 525
Bronx NY 10461
Work Phone: 718-430-2485
Fax:
718-430-8821
E-mail: Nawy@aecom.yu.edu
1987
Leland S. Stone, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1987 with Steve Lisberger
Title: Visual simple-spike and complex-spike responses of gaze-velocity purkinje cells in the cerebellar
flocculus during smooth-pursuit eye movements in monkeys.
Current position: Research Psychologist
Human Factors Division
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, California 94035
Phone: (650) 604-5000
Alline J. McKenzie, M.A.
M.A. 1987 with A. J. Hudspeth
Last known position was as free-lance science writer, Santa Cruz, CA
Kathleen R. Zahs, Ph.D.
Ph.D., 1987 with Michael Stryker
Title: Organization of central visual pathways of the ferret
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Department of Physiology
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
3-136 Jackson Hall
321 Church St SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
1 612-626-4884
E-mail: zahsx001@umn.edu
Web site: http://physiology.med.umn.edu/faculty/KZahs/Zahs.htm
Kevin J. Tomaselli, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1987 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Integrins and cadherins : neuronal receptors involved in axon growth and guidance
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow, Athena Neurosciences Inc.
Current position: President
Ikavia, Inc
3665 Jackson Street
San Diego, CA 92103
Email: kevintomaselli@cox.net
1986
Kay Simon, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1986 with Viswanath Lingappa
Title: Synthesis and transport of chimaeric protein in Xenopus oocytes
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Donald Ganem, UCSF
Current position: free-lance photographer
Presently living in East Bay
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
1985
Laura Otis, M.A., Ph.D.
M.A. 1985 with Roger Nicoll
Initial position: graduate student of English, Cornell University
Current position: Professor
Department of English, mail stop 1535-003-1AA
Emory University,
201 Dowman Drive
Atlanta, GA 30322
404-727-2234
Email: lotis@emory.edu
David Shelton, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1983 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Expression of the Beta-nerve growth factor gene
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Eric Shooter
Current position: Senior Director of Biology
Rinat Neuroscience Corporation
3155 Porter Drive
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Email: JSDLS@pacbell.net
Arthur D. Lander, M.D., Ph.D. Ph.D. 1985 with Louis Reichardt
Title: Purification and characterization of "neurite outgrowth-promoting factors
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Thomas Jessell
Current position: Professor and Chair
Department of Developmental and Cell Biology
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717-2300
Email: adlander@uci.edu
Ann L. Calof, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1985 with Louis Reichardt
Title: In vitro studies of spinal motoneuron development
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Thomas Jessell
Current position: Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92717-1275
Email: alcalof@uci.edu
1984
1983
Vernon Daniel Madison, Ph.D. Ph.D. 1983 with Roger Nicoll
Title: The actions of norepinephrine in the hippocampus
Current position: Associate Professor
Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Beckman B003
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Stanford, CA 94305-5345
Work Phone: (650) 725-7563
Fax: (650) 725-4628
Email: madison@stanford.edu
Linda C. Padgett, M.A., Ph.D. M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1992 in Anatomy with Matthew LaVail
Title (Ph.D. thesis): Matrix metalloproteinases and tissue inhibitors of metalloproteinases in the retinal
pigment epithelium
Initial position: 1992-1994: AAAS Science, Engineering and Diplomacy Fellow working in theHealth Office
of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Washington, D.C.
1994-2002: NC A&T State University Adjunct Professor seconded to USAID as aHealth and Education
Specialist
2002-present: Author of memoir of six-year series of mystical revelations; currently in final editing phase
2004-present: Contemplative Counselor
1013 Mountfort Ct., SW
Vienna, VA 22180-6469
Phone: 703.255.6128
Email: lindapadgett@earthlink.net
Joan Hooper, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1983 with Regis Kelly
Title: The proteins of cholinergic synaptic vesicles : biochemical and immunological characterizations
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Peter Lawrence
Current Position: Associate Professor
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
University of Colorado Health Science Center
Box 8108, Cancer Research Tower, room 12103
4200 E. Ninth Ave.
Denver, CO 80262
Office Phone: 303-724-3417
E-mail: Joan.Hooper@UCHSC.edu
Brad Fowler, M.A.
M.A. 1983 with Michael Merzenich
Title: Anatomical and electrophysiological studies of a newly discovered mechanoreceptor array in the
wing of Antrozous pallidus
Current position: not known
last known position was Scientist, W.L. Gore and Associates
Martin Silverman, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1983 with Michael Merzenich
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Subsequent position: Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Washington University School of Medicine
Current position: no information.
Todd Margolis, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1983 with Jenny LaVail
Title: Uptake and anterograde axonal transport of wheat germ agglutinin in the chick visual system
Current position: Professor and Director, Proctor Foundation
University of California, San Francisco
Box 0944, 95 Kirkham Street, room 305
San Francisco, CA. 94143 – 0944
415-476-4419
Email: tpms@itsa.ucsf.edu
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
1982
John C. Middlebrooks, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1982 with Michael Merzenich
Title: Subunits of the primary auditory cortex (AI) of the cat distinguished by segregated thalamic input
sources and functional specialization
Current position: Kresge Hearing Research Inst
Dept Otolaryngology
University of Michigan 1301 East Ann St
Ann Arbor MI 48105-0506
Work Phone: 734-763-7965
Fax:
734-764-0014
E-mail: jmidd@umich.edu
Barry M. Gumbiner, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1982 with Regis Kelly
Title: The intracellular transport and sorting of pro-ACTH/endorphin and viral membrane glycoproteins in
pituitary cells
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Kai Simons
Current position: Professor and Chair
Department of Cell Biology
University of Virginia School of Medicine
PO Box 800732, Jordan Hall, 3315
Phone: 434-243-9290
Email: bmg4n@virginia.edu
Tim K. Smock, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1982 with Howard Fields
Title: The functional interaction of co-existing neuropeptides
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Current position: Professor
Department of Psychology,
University of Colorado at Boulder
345 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0345
Office: 303-492-7487
Email: Tim.Smock@Colorado.EDU
1981
Daniel H. Feldman, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1981 with Michael Dennis
Title: Synaptic specificity in frog sympathetic ganglia during reinnervation and development
Initial position: postdoctoral fellow with Dozu Yoshikami
Current position: Staff Scientist
Shriners Hospital for Children
Research Division
2425 Stockton Blvd
Sacramento CA 95817
Work Phone: 916-453-2265
dhfeldman@ucdavis.edu
E-mail Address:
1980
UCSF Neuroscience Graduate Program
Past Neuroscience Students Who Received Degrees: Thesis Titles, Initial and Current
Positions, and Contact Information (Arranged by Final Year in Program).
Karen A. Goldman (now Goldman-Herman), Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1980 with Roy Steinberg
Title: Melanosome metabolism and other segment disc disposal in the opossum retinal pigment
epithelium
Initial position: law student
Current position: Lawyer
Environmental Protection Agency
Washington, D.C.
W. Dale Branton, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1980 with Earl Mayeri
Title: Nonsynaptic and peptidergic neurotransmission in aplysia
Current Position: Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscince
University of Minnesota, 6-145 Jackson Hall
321 Church St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone: 612-625-8977
Email: Branton@umn.edu
Web site: http://www.neurosci.umn.edu/faculty/branton.html
1979
Richard A. Andersen, Ph.D.
Ph.D. 1979 With Michael Merzenich
Title: Functional connections of the central auditory nervous system: thalamocortical, corticothalamic and
corticotectal connections of the AI, AII and AAF auditory cortical fields Initial position: postdoctoral fellow
Current position: Professor
Division of Biology (216-76)
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA 91125
Work Phone: 626-395-8336
Fax:
626-795-2397
E-mail Address: andersen@vis.caltech.edu