Congratulations and best wishes to the following 2015 Neuroscience graduate students who have recently completed and received their Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience:
Richard Lieberman, Ph.D.
Defended: December 7, 2015
Title: “Utilizing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Study of Alcohol Use Disorder”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Covault
Current Location: Postdoctoral, UConn Health, Farmington, CT
Rodney Ritzel, Ph.D.
Defended: December 4, 2015
Title: “Immune Regulation of the Aging and Ischemic Brain”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Louise McCullough
Kasey Johnson, Ph.D.
Defended: November 23, 2015
Title: “Extracellular Regulation of Glial Cells”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Stephen Crocker
Current Location: Postdoctoral, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Xi Bie, Ph.D.
Defended: May 12, 2015
Title: “Binaural Spectral Processing In Mouse Inferior Colliculus”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Douglas Oliver
Current Location: Investment Analyst Intern at Spencer Trask Ventures
Kyle Denton, Ph.D.
Defended: April 30, 2015
Title: “Modelling Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Xue-Jun Li
Current Location: Postdoctoral, National Institutes of Health, MD
Megan Miller, Ph.D.
Defended: March 27, 2015
Title: “Functional consequences of Kalrn promoter usage suggest a novel role in postsynaptic membrane trafficking”
Thesis Advisor: Dr. Betty Eipper
Current Location: Postdoctoral, Yale University, New Haven, CT