Neuroscience at the University of Miami:
The People

The Alumni

Name	Year	Mentor	Dissertation Title	Current Position
Cindy Achat-Mendes, PhD	2005	Itzhak	Investigation of Pavlovian Conditioning Using Models of Amphetamine-induced Neurotoxicity	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Stephen Baccus, PhD	1998	Muller	Enhancement of Electrical Signaling by Neuronal Morphology: New Presynaptic and Postsynaptic Mechanisms	Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Heather Belmont, PhD	2001	Masters	Growth factor participation in neural crest cell patterning	Scientist, Altor Bioscience Corp.
Gizelda Casella, PhD	2002	Bunge	Cellular Changes at the Injury Site and Beyond in Response to a Moderate Contusion to the Adult Rat Spinal Cord
Marsha Castro, MS	1996	Bunge
Gary Danton, MD, PhD	2002	Dietrich	Cerebrovascular Consequences of Common Carotid Artery Thrombosis
Anastasia Dimitropoulou, PhD	2003	Bixby	Signals Regulating Neurite Growth	Proctor and Gamble
Hirokazu Fukui, PhD	2008	Moraes	Mitochondrial Involvement in the Accumulation of Misfolded Proteins In Neurodegenerative Diseases.	Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
Kevin Golden, PhD	2005	Bunge	Combinatorial transplantation strategies using Schwann cells and growth factors to increase axonal regeneration in an injured rat spinal cord	3rd Year Medical School Student, UM Miller School of Medicine
James Guest, MD, PhD	1999	Bunge	The proliferation of human Schwann cell grafts to influence spinal cord regeneration in the nude rat	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurological Surgery, Lois Pope LIFE Center
Ana Jimenez, PhD	2000	Lonsbury-Martin	Characterization of age and noise-induced cochlear changes with distortion product otoacoustic emissions in four inbred strains of mice	Faculty Member at Barry University Department of Biology
Jonathan Kalkstein, MD, PhD	2002	Magleby	Lifting the mask of depression to reveal augmentation of transmitter release at phsyiological quantal content	Psychiatry Resident, University of California - San Francisco
Brandon Kucher, PhD	2005	Neary	Effects of purinergic receptor activation on LPS-induced TNF-alpha release	Currently in Medical School at McMaster University
Alan Levi, PhD	1994	Bunge	Studies on the storage and proliferation of cultured human Schwann cells with observation of their capacity to myelinate regenerating rodent axons in vivo	Chief, Neurospinal Services & Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Shannon Mendes, PhD	2006	Liebl	Multiple B-class Ephrins and Eph Receptors Regulate Midline Axon Guidance in the Developing Mouse Forebrain	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, McLean Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Thomas Morrisey, MD, PhD	1994	Bunge	An in vitro study on the functional capabilities of Schwann cells derived from adult rat and human peripheral nerve: regulations of proliferation and differentiation in neuron-schwann cocultures	Assistant Professor & Clerkship Director, University of Florida Emergency Medicine
John Pablo, PhD	2000	Mash	Norbogaine: an active metabolite of the indole alkolosis ibogaine as an anti-addiction pharmacotherapy
Michael Passineau, PhD	2001	Dietrich	Functional recovery following injury to the brain: therapeutic effects of environmental enrichment
Julie Pendergast, PhD	2007	Bethea	Estrogen receptor ß contributes to gender differences in tyrosine hydroxylase expression in the mouse locus coeruleus.	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt Medical School
Howard Rind, PhD	1999	Whittemore	Mechanisms of raphe neuron differentiation, control by protein kinase c and cyclin adenosine monophosphate-dependent protein kinase and regulation of tryptophan hydroxylase expression	Senior Research Scientist, AmCyte, Inc.
Craig Roberts, PhD	2008	Roper	cAMP Signaling In Chemosensory Transduction	Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University
Alma Rodenas-Ruano, PhD	2008	Liebl	Ephrin B3 and EPH receptors regulate hippocampal synaptic function	Postdoctoral Fellow at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Andrew Rosendahl, PhD	2005	Bookman	Transactional changes in spinal motor neurons during synaptogenesis	3rd Year Medical School Student, UM Miller School of Medicine
Sandra Schaal, PhD	2008	Pearse	Therapeutic Targeting of Phosphodieterase4 with Rolipram as an Acute Neuroprotective strategy following Spinal Cord Injury.	Department of Defense
Lamya Shihabuddin, PhD	1995	Bunge	Characterization of a CNS-derived neuroepithelial precursor cell line following transplantation into the intact and injured CNS	Senior Scientist, Genzyme Corporation
Nancy Stagliano, PhD	1996	Dietrich	The Pathophysiology of Thromboembolic Stroke in the Rate is Sensitive to Manipulation of the Nitric Oxide Synthesis Cascade	Associate Director of Discovery Strategy and Communications, Millenium Pharmaceuticals
Laurie Stepanek, PhD	2004	Bixby	Receptor protein tyrosine phosphatases involved in axon growth and guidance	Postdoctoral Associate, San Francisco
Janet Talbot, MS	2000	Turner		Postdoc, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Minh Tran, PhD	2005	Neary	Evidence that P2 Purinergic Signaling in Astrocytes Regulates Expression of N-Cadherin and Thrombospondin-1: Implications for CNS Injury and Development	Postdoc, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Bhavya Trivedi, MD, PhD	1999	Kramer	Dynamics of Cyclic GMP Signaling in Neuronal Cells	Pediatric Cardiology Fellow, Duke University Medical Center
Michael White, PhD	2005	Barrett	Heat stress-induced mechanisms of neuronal apoptosis	Postdoc, University of Pennsylvania
Eric Wu, MS	2001	Muller		Research Associate, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute