Current Students

Directory

• Tuba Aksoy
  

  Tuba.Aksoy@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: David Grosshans, MD, PhD

• Anik Banjeree
  

  Anik.Banerjee@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Louise McCullough, MD, PhD

• Jing Cai
  

  Jing.Cai@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Qingchun Tong, PhD

• Celso Catumbela
  

  Celso.Catumbela@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Rodrigo Morales, PhD

  Mammalian and bacterial amyloids, misfolded protein aggregates, neurodegenerative diseases

• Renan Costa
  

  Renan.Murillo.Costa@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: John Byrne, Ph.D.

  Neural mechanisms of operant conditioning

• Samantha Debes
  

  Samantha.Debes@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.

  systems neuroscience, in vivo optogenetics, vision, perception

• Melissa Franch
  

  melissa.franch@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Valentin Dragoi, PhD

  Neural representations of cooperative behaviors in non-human primate.

• Chrystine Gallegos
  

  Chrystine.M.Gallegos@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Qilin Cao, MD

• Kyla Gibney
  

  KDGibney@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Francesco Versace, PhD

  cognition, affect, cue-induced reward seeking, addiction

• Pedram Honarpisheh
  

  Pedram.Honarpisheh@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Louise D McCullough, MD, PhD

  Gut microbiota-immune-brain axis in Neurological Disease

• Sara Kelley
  

  Sara.Kelley@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Rodrigo Morales, PhD

• Sarah Kelley
  

  Sara.Kelley@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Rodrigo Morales, PhD

• Natasha Kharas
  

  natasha.kharas@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Valentin Dragoi, PhD

  computational neuroscience, synchrony, brain states, sleep, unconscious priming

• Thanh Lam
  

  Thanh.Lam@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: David Grosshans, MD, PhD

  neuron, dendritic spine, radiation-induced cognitive decline, memantine, 

• Blake McAlpin
  

  Blake.Mcalpin@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Cobi Heijnen, Ph.D.

  Chemotherapy-related disorders and stem cell repair 

• Meredith McCarty
  

  Meredith.J.McCarty@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Nitin Tandon, MD

• Emily Frances Mendez
  

  Emily.F.Mendez@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Consuelo Walss-Bass, PhD

• Russell Milton
  

  Russell.Milton@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Valentin Dragoi, Ph.D.

  Neural population dynamics of behavioral states

• Alexis Mobley
  

  alexis.s.mobley@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jaroslaw (Jarek) Aronowski, MD, PhD Louise D McCullough, MD, PhD

  Neuroinflammation caused by innate lymphoid cells during ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke

• John (JJ) O'Malley
  

  John.OMalley@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Michael Beierlein, Ph.D.

  Slice electrophysiology, Thalamus, TRN, Sleep oscillations

• Sagar Patwardhan
  

  Sagar.Patwardhan@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: John Byrne, PhD

  Population-level neural dynamics of decision-making

• Cana Quave
  

  Cana.Quave@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Fabricio H. Do Monte, DVM, PhD

  Neurobiological basis of altered reward processing in psychiatric disorders

• Iman Sahnoune
  

  isahnoune@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: George Calin, MD, PhD

• Eyad Shihabeddin
  

  Eyad.Shihabeddin.1@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: John O'Brien, PhD

• Amanda Solbach
  

  Amanda.Solbach@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Sheng Zhang, PhD

• Nicole Stephens
  

  Nicole.Stephens@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Cameron Jeter, PhD

• Riya Thomas
  

  Riya.R.Thomas@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: David Grosshans, MD, PhD

• Shun-Ming Ting
  

  Shun-Ming.Ting@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jaroslaw Aronowski, MD, PhD

• Jamie Tran
  

  Jamie.Tran@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD

• Ndidi Uzor
  

  Ndidi-Ese.Uzor@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Andrey Tsvetkov, Ph.D.

  Peroxisomal Metabolism in Neurons

• Rachel Van Drunen
  

  Rachel.VanDrunen@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Kristin Eckel-Mahan, PhD

• Jamie Wright
  

  Jamie.M.Wright@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Dianna Milewicz, MD, PhD

Page 1 of 2 | Next Page