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University of South Carolina School of Medicine Biomedical Science Graduate Program Students Neuroscience Focus Group/Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience |
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Pharmacology, Physiology, & Neuroscience Homepage
Biomedical Sciences Graduate program Neuroscience Focus Graduate Students USC School of Medicine Homepage University of South Carolina homepage
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Current Graduate Students
Ravi Pasumarthi Advisor: James Fadel Dissertation Topic: Mechanisms of nicotine-elicited activation of orexin neurons. Link to Pasumarthi et al., 2006 Ravi's Awards: ASPET Graduate Student Travel Award, Experimental Biology (2006); Barnhart Graduate Memorial Award (2006, USC); Eli Lilly Graduate Student Travel Award, SFN (2005); Hbest graduate student poster SC SFN Fall 2004 Neuroscience Day |
Current Graduate StudentsCourtney Pinard Advisor: Alex McDonald Dissertation topic: Dopamine regulation of basolateral amygdala |
Current Graduate StudentsLeah Reznikov Advisors: Lawrence P Reagan & Jim Fadel
Dissertation topic: Stress-Induced
Alterations in the Rat Amygdala. |
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Dani Frederick-Duus Advisor: Jim Fadel Dissertation topic: Orexin regulation of the basal forebrain cholinergic system.
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Sheila Adams Advisor: Rosemarie Booze Dissertation topic:
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Robby Hendry, Masters of Science (2006) Advisor: Lawrence P Reagan Dissertation topic: BDNF changes in hippocampus & amygdala during stress
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Alvin McKelvy Advisor: Sarah Sweitzer Dissertation topic:
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Sloka Iyengar Advisor: David Mott Dissertation topic:
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Recent Graduates:
Paul R. Burghardt, Ph.D. (2004)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Univ Michigan with Dr. Huda Akil Advisor: Marlene A. Wilson Dissertation Title: Modulation of anxiolytic drugs by amygdalar opioid systems. |
Recent Graduates:
Current position: Science Writer in the Office of News and Public Affairs at Vanderbilt Univ Medical Center (615-322-4777 or melissa.marino@vanderbilt.edu Previous position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University Dissertation Title: Biochemical, Neuroanatomical, and Behavioral Effects of Antioxidant Therapy During Neonatal Alcohol Exposure link to Marino & Kelly 2004 |
Recent Graduates
Misty D. Smith, Ph.D. (2001) Current position: postdoctoral Fellow at University of Utah Medical School: Anticonvulsant Drug Development Program Advisors: Marlene A Wilson & Leslie S Jones Dissertation Title: Influences of gender and gonadal steroid sin modulating hippocampal excitability and epileptogenesis Link to Smith et al., 2002 |
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Recent
Graduates:
Cheng Qi, PhD (2004) Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Univ Advisor: Kenneth B. Walsh |
Valarie B. Edwards, PhD (2004) Current Position: Instructor at Midlands Technical College, Columbia SC Advisor: Alex J. McDonald Dissertation Title: Perirhinal cortex: neuronal organization and alterations in epilepsy |
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Brandon Drafts, Masters Program (2003) Current position: Medical Student USC School of Medicine Dissertation Title: Primary structures within the α1 and α6 GABAA receptors subunits that are essential for the receptor’s pharmacological properties toward GABA and amiloride.
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Susan Abulhawa (Masters Program) 2001 Current position: Research Technician at Wyeth-Ayerst, Philadephia Dissertation Title: Effects of 5HT1A ligands on G-protein association in rat and human brain regions
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Wen Kang, Ph.D. (1998)
Current position: postdoctoral
Fellow at University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Microbiology Dissertation Title: Herpes-mediated preproenkephaln gene transfer into the amygdala: Effects on pain and anxiety responses
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Melissa Marino, Ph.D. (2003)
