{"id":899,"date":"2016-01-11T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neuroscience.uchc.edu\/\/?p=899"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:30:45","slug":"congratulations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2016\/01\/11\/congratulations-2\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Neuroscience Thesis Defenders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Congratulations and best wishes to the following 2015 Neuroscience graduate students who have recently completed and received their Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences, Neuroscience:<\/p>\n

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Richard Lieberman, Ph.D.
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Defended: December 7, 2015<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0\u201cUtilizing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Study of Alcohol Use Disorder\u201d
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Thesis Advisor:\u00a0Dr. <\/span>Jonathan Covault<\/p>\n

Current Location: Postdoctoral, UConn Health, Farmington, CT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Rodney

Rodney Ritzel, Ph.D.
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Defended: December 4, 2015<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0“Immune Regulation of the Aging and Ischemic Brain”
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Thesis Advisor:\u00a0Dr. <\/span>Louise McCullough<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"Kasey

Kasey Johnson, Ph.D.
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Defended: November 23, 2015<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0\u201cExtracellular Regulation of Glial Cells”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thesis Advisor:\u00a0Dr. Stephen Crocker
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Current Location: Postdoctoral, University of Massachusetts Medical School<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Xi Bie, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Defended: May 12, 2015<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0“Binaural Spectral Processing In Mouse Inferior Colliculus”<\/em><\/p>\n

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Douglas Oliver<\/p>\n

Current Location: Investment Analyst Intern at Spencer Trask Ventures<\/p>\n

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\"Kyle

Kyle Denton, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Defended: April 30, 2015<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0“Modelling Hereditary Spastic Paraplegias using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells”<\/p>\n

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Xue-Jun Li<\/p>\n

Current Location: Postdoctoral, National Institutes of Health, MD<\/p>\n

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\"Megan

Megan Miller, Ph.D.<\/h3>\n

Defended: March 27, 2015<\/p>\n

Title:\u00a0“Functional consequences of Kalrn promoter usage suggest a novel role in postsynaptic membrane trafficking<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Thesis Advisor: Dr. Betty Eipper<\/p>\n

Current Location: Postdoctoral, Yale University, New Haven, CT<\/p>\n

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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:\u00a0\u201cUtilizing Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in the Study of Alcohol Use Disorder\u201d Thesis Advisor:\u00a0Dr. Jonathan Covault Current Location: Postdoctoral, UConn Health, Farmington, CT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":1041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 07:34:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}