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Neuroscience at the University of Miami:
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The Students |
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Read the Feature Student Research Article |
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* indicates MD/PhD Student
| Name | Mentor | Dissertation Title |
| Poincyane Assis-Nascimento | N/A | Rotations |
| Mara Balda * | Itzhak | Roles of the nNOS gene, ontogeny, and gender in the behavioral and molecular effects of cocaine. |
| Gregory Bigford | Keane | Peripheral Nerve Regeneration after Denervation |
| Randall Brenneman | N/A | Rotations |
| George Brittain | Bethea | Investigation of the Alternative NF-kB Pathway in Neurons and Neuronal Cell Lines. |
| William Buchser | Lemmon | Exploring the molecule TAG-1 as the binding partner for L-1 |
| Florence Chaverneff | Barrett | Understanding BMP-induced Smad signaling in septal neurons; Involvement in neuroprotection |
| Raul Corredor | Goldberg | Molecular mechanisms mediating electrical activity-induced. |
| Yenisel Cruz-Almeida | N/A | Rotations |
| Andrew Darr | Tsoulfas | Translational Repression in the Mammalian Nervous System |
| Hirokazu Fukui | Moraes | Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Alzheimers Disease |
| Orion Furmanski | Sagen | Therapeutic transplantation of GABAergic neural precursor cells |
| Stephanie Glass | N/A | Rotations |
| Jonathan Hertz | Goldberg | The timing of the activation of the transcription factor Pitx3 may play a role in midbrain dopaminergic cell subtype specification. |
| Amy Hower | Bixby | Receptor Functions of Protein Tyrosine phosphateases |
| Joshua Johnstone | Bethea | Proteosome Inhibition in the Eye Results in Protein Deposits Similar to Pseudoexfoliative Material. |
| Lana Jones | N/A | Rotations |
| Jonathan Kelley | N/A | Rotations |
| Brandon Kitay | Pearse | The relationship between insulin-like growth factor signaling and aging: the potential fountain of youth for Alzheimer’s disease. |
| Yang Liu | N/A | Rotations |
| Luminita Luca | Barrett | Neuronal progenitor cells |
| Donald McCorquodale * | N/A | Rotations |
| Darcie Moore | Goldberg | Molecular mechanism for developmental loss of intrinsic axon growth ability in retinal ganglion cells. |
| Paul Morton | Bethea | Proposal pending |
| Rei Nakamura | Hackam | Investigation of Muller Glia Derived Dkk3 During Retinal Degeneration. |
| Khanh Nguyen | Barrett | Neuromuscular disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) |
| Uzoezi Ozomaro * | N/A | Rotations |
| Andrea Peterson | Bixby | To Be Determined |
| Alex Peyser | Nonner | Electrostatic and excluded volume effects, using Monte Carlo simulations. A specific application of this to the S4 segment of voltage gated K+ and Na+ ion channels |
| Alicia Pickrell | N/A | Rotations |
| Gillian Reierson | N/A | Roles of the Endogenous Opioid and Dopaminergic Systems in Vulnerability of the Reward Pathway to Addictive Substances. |
| Craig Roberts | Roper | The role of cyclic AMP in taste transduction |
| Stuart Samuels * | Muller | Role of invertebrate gap junction hemichannels in mediating glial calcium waves and the neuroimmune response to CNS injury. |
| Sandra Schaal | Pearse | Anti-inflammatory mechanisms of cyclic AMP elevation after cervical contusive spinal cord injury |
| Michael Sinclair | Chaudhari | Proposal pending |
| Robin Smith | Lemmon | Characterization of novel protein-protein interactions involving L1-CAM involving total internal reflectance fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) |
| Ryan Williams * | Bunge | The application of differentiation factors to neuronal somata topromote axonal regeneration after spinal cord injury |
neurosci@med.miami.edu · Phone: 800-952-5386 / 305-243-3368 · Fax: 305-243-2970
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