Nana Dufie Akowuah

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): Nana Dufie Akowuah is currently conducting her research rotations

Marzieh Jazaeri

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): Marzieh Jazaeri is currently conducting her research rotations

Paula Diaz

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): Paula Diaz is currently conducting her research rotations

Raymond Chien

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): Raymond Chien is currently conducting his research rotations

Vasisht Yegneshwaran

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): Vasisht Yegneshwaran is currently conducting his research rotations

Xiang Li

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): Xiang Li is currently conducting his research rotations

James Muldowney

Matriculation Year: 2023
Project title: Currently Rotating
Advisor(s): James Muldowney is currently conducting his research rotations

Khadijah Arsalan

Matriculation Year: 2022
Project title: Elucidating the Impact of RIH on Oligodendrocyte Differentiation: The Role of mTOR Signaling
Advisor(s): Terri Wood Ph.D. and Steven Levison

Geovanni Geukgeuzian

Matriculation Year: 2022
Project title: Connexin-43 Remodeling in DMD
Advisor(s): Diego Fraidenraich Ph.D.

Tanaz Sadeghian

Matriculation Year: 2022
Project title: Role of the soluble guanylyl cyclase and thioredoxin-1 complex in cell death and proliferation
Advisor(s): Annie Beuve, Ph.D.

Ellen Angeles

Matriculation Year: 2022
Project title: Evaluating the Role of ApoE4 on Insulin Resistance in Alzheimer’s Disease
Advisor(s): Miriam Bocarsly, Ph.D.

Asma Rizvi

Matriculation Year: 2022
Project title: Defining the role of Apolipoprotein E4 in the fibrinogen extravasation that promotes cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Advisor(s): Hyung Jin Ahn, Ph.D.

Aishwarya Venkatasubramanian

Matriculation Year: 2022
Project title: Transcriptional regulation of gene expression in cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure
Advisor(s): Danish Sayed, Ph.D.

Victoria Stiritz

Matriculation Year: 2021
Project title: Impulsivity After Head Trauma: Exploring the Effects of mTBI on Negative Urgency and Inflammation
Advisor(s): Kevin Beck, Ph.D.

Sindhu Sriramoji

Matriculation Year: 2021
Project title: Investigating Dopamine Metabolism Enzymes via Neuroinflammation in Schizophrenia models treated with Olanzapine in the Striatum
Advisor(s): Miriam Bocarsly, Ph.D.

Rouba Houbeika

Matriculation Year: 2021
Project title: Elevated perinatal interleukin-6 modifies hippocampal physiology to produce ASD-like behaviors
Advisor(s): Ozlem Gunal, Ph.D. and Steven Levison, Ph.D.

Yue Lu

Matriculation Year: 2021
Project title: Delineating the role of mitochondrial phosphodiesterase 2A in traumatic brain injury related Alzheimer’s disease
Advisor(s): Ying Xu, Ph.D.

Ghata Arpanbhai Nandi

Matriculation Year: 2021
Project title: Regulation of mitochondrial metabolism and energetics by the AAA Lon protease in human induced pluripotent stem cell derived neurons and astrocytes
Advisor(s): Carolyn Suzuki, Ph.D.

Rachel Loia

Matriculation Year: 2020
Project title: The role of anthrax toxin receptor 2 in mouse reproduction
Advisor(s): Nataki Douglas M.D./Ph.D.

Eunah Sung

Matriculation Year: 2020
Project title: Determine whether Wnt5a promotes DOX-induced cardiomyopathy through induction of senescence. Successfully set up the mouse breeding (Wnt5a cardiac specific knockout mice).
Advisor(s): Junichi Sadoshima, M.D./Ph.D

Dana Clausen

Matriculation Year: 2020
Project title: Project title: Role of Endothelin Converting Enzyme 2 Activity on Hippocampal Function
Advisor(s): Kevin Beck, Ph.D.

Chengchen Hu

Matriculation Year: 2020
Project title: Mechanism of YAP activation of compensatory cardiac hypertrophy
Advisor(s): Junichi Sadoshima, M.D./Ph.D

Ayma Malik

Matriculation Year: 2020
Project title: Cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying opioid-induced respiratory depression
Advisor(s): Ying Xian Pan, M.D./Ph.D.

Delong Zhou

Matriculation Year: 2020
Project title: Role and Post-translational modifications of gap junction protein Connexin 43 in cardiac and skeletal muscle of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) mouse model, and the interaction between Cx43, microtubule and dystrophin.
Advisor(s): Diego Fraidenraich , Ph.D.

Rachel Fasiczka

Matriculation Year: 2019
Project title: Mechanisms and cellular consequences of the Parkinson's disease associated LRRK2 kinase pathway.
Advisor(s): Sabine Hilfiker, Ph.D.

Divyangi Kantak

Matriculation Year: 2019
Project title: Defining the role of b-raf and mtor signaling in oligodendrocytes of the spinal cord
Advisor(s): Terri Wood, Ph.D.

Jamie Francisco

Matriculation Year: 2019
Project title: The Role of Neutrophil YAP in ischemia/reperfusion inflammation and injury.
Advisor(s): Dominic Del Re, Ph.D.

Martian Ille

Matriculation Year: 2019
Project title: In vivo phage display for tissue-specific gene therapy applications in cancer
Advisor(s): Renata Pasqualini, Ph.D. and Wadih Arap, M.D./Ph.D.

Hannah Lamont

Matriculation Year: 2019
Project title:Social Isolation and Diabetes: A Role for Oxytocin in Glucose Sensing?
Advisor(s): Ioana Carcea, Ph.D. and Vanessa Routh, Ph.D.

Matthew Gabrielle

Matriculation Year: 2019
Project title: Inhibition of mechanically activated PIEZO2 channels by TMEM120A/TACAN.
Advisor(s): Tibor Rohacs, Ph.D.

Zahra Adahman

Matriculation Year: 2018
Project title: Neural circuits for social behavior adaptations to environmental temperature.
Advisor(s): Ioana Carcea, M.D./Ph.D.

Hunter Lanovoi

Matriculation Year: 2018
Project title: Neural circuits for social behavior adaptations to environmental temperature.
Advisor(s): Ioana Carcea, M.D./Ph.D.

Alejandro Davila

Matriculation Year: 2017
Project title:  Investigating the role of cell autonomous and bone marrow niche driven epigenetic modifications in breast cancer dormancy in bone marrow.
Advisor(s): Yosuke Kumamoto, Ph.D.

Vibha Harindra Savanur

Matriculation Year: 2017
Project title:
Advisor(s): Pranela Rameshwar, Ph.D.