Jia Cheng

Robert J. Costa

Lara Duffney

Hong Guo

Changyi Ji

Tadeusz Kaczynski

Benjamin Orlando

Jing Wang

Xue Yuan

Jessica Zourelias

Ekue Bright Adamah-Biassi

Program: PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology

Advisor: Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Research Interests: I am interested in molecular, behavioral and neuropsychopharmacology. Specifically, understanding the mechanisms by which luzindole, a competitive melatonin receptors antagonists ellicits antidepressants like effects in mice.

Katelyn Carr

Program: PhD, Neuroscience Program

Advisor: Dr. Leonard H. Epstein, Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Research Interests: I am interested in eating behaviors including factors that
increase and decrease the motivation to eat and how memory of food, environmental context cues ad previous eating episodes influences these factors.

Shannon Clough

Program: PhD, Neuroscience

Advisor: Margarita L. Dubocovich, PhD, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Alice Crane

Program: MD/PhD, Pharmacology and Toxicology

Advisor: James Olson, PhD, Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Research Interest: The impact of genetic variability on human susceptibility to chlorpyrifos

Jay Garaycochea

Program: PhD, Neuroscience

Advisor: Malcolm Slaughter, PhD; Dept of Biophysics; Dept of Neuroscience

Research Interests: I am currently using electrophysiological techniques to identify a metabotropic glycine receptor in salamander retina, with the goal of identifying this receptor in rat retina in the future.

Wei Luo

Program: PhD, Department of Biochemistry

Advisor: Dr. Lee Ann Sinha;  Dept of Biochemistry

Research Interests: I am interested in immunology especially the mechnism and treatment for autoimmune disease. I am also interested in cancer research and angiogenesis.

Alex Morrison-Nozik

Program: PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology

Advisor: Ji Li, PhD; Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Research Interests: Cardiovascular disease, specifically ischemic heart disease and myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury.  In addition, understanding the molecular mechanisms of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) mediated cardioprotection.

Bethany Rankin

Program: PhD, Pharmacology & Toxicology

Advisor: Raj Rajnarayanan, PhD; Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Bo Zhou

Program: PhD, Biochemistry

Advisor: Richard Gronostajski, PhD; Dept of Biochemistry; Neuroscience Program

Research Interests: My research interests are nuclear factor I X and brain development, as well as neural stem and progenitor cell proliferation and differentiation