Neurosciences Graduate Program

Current Student Directory

Student Lab Awards/Fellowships Publications
Stephanie Alfonso Malinow    
Kristen Berendzen Dillin    
Margaret Bezrutczyk      
Jeremy Biane Tuszynski
Neuroplasticity of Aging Training Grant, 2009-2012
 
Matthew Boisvert Currently rotating    
Alison Boyd Isaacson  
 Boyd AM, Sturgill JF, Poo C, Isaacson JS. Cortical feedback control of olfactory bulb circuits. Neuron. 2012 Dec 20;76(6):1161-74. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2012.10.020. PubMed PMID: 23259951.
Cailey Bromer Currently rotating    
Rayno Brooks Mobley    
Jeffrey Bush Ellisman    
Adam Calhoun Sharpee
NSF GRFP
 
Emily Caporello Gentner    
Jonathan Cook Currently rotating    
Jeff Dahlen Komiyama   Dahlen, J. E., Jimenez, D. a, Gerkin, R. C., & Urban, N. N. (2011). Morphological analysis of activity-reduced adult-born neurons in the mouse olfactory bulb. Frontiers in neuroscience, 5(May), 66. doi:10.3389/fnins.2011.00066
Wilmer Del Cid Currently rotating    
Laura DeNardo Ghosh  

DeNardo LA, de Wit J, Otto-Hitt S, Ghosh A. NGL-2 regulates input-specificsynapse development in CA1 pyramidal neurons. Neuron. 2012 Nov 21;76(4):762-75.doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2012.10.013. PubMed PMID: 23177961.

Wilke SA, Hall BJ, Antonios JK, Denardo LA, Otto S, Yuan B, Chen F, Robbins EM, Tiglio K, Williams ME, Qiu Z, Biederer T, Ghosh A.Neural Development. NeuroD2 regulates the development of hippocampal mossy fiber synapses.Neural Dev. 2012 Feb 27;7:9. PMID: 22369234

Geoffrey Diehl Currently rotating    
Kyle Fischer Currently rotating    
Paxon Frady Kristan   Miller EW, Lin JY, Frady EP, Steinbach P, Kristan WB Jr., Tsien RY (2012) Optically monitoring voltage in neurons by photoinduced electron transfer through molecular wires. PNAS, Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:2114-9.   PMID:  22308458
Jennifer Frihauf Zorrilla  

Cottone P, Sabino V, Roberto M, Bajo M, Pockros L, Frihauf JB, Fekete EM, Steardo L, Rice KC, Grigoriadis DE, Conti B, Koob GF, Zorrilla EP. 2009. CRF system recruitment mediates dark side of compulsive eating. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 106:20016-20. PMCID: 2785284

Frihauf, J.B., Fekete, E., Zorrilla, E.P., 2010. CNS Control of food intake. In Encyclopedia of Behavioral Neuroscience. Eds. Koob GF, Thompson RF, LeMoal M, Academic Press, London. Updated from in press.
Melissa Galinato Currently rotating    
Jonathan Garcia Currently rotating    
Aleena Garner Mayford
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Pre-doctoral Fellowship

Garner AR, Rowland DC, Hwang SY, Baumgaertel K, Roth BL, Kentros C, Mayford M. Generation of a synthetic memory trace. Science. 2012 Mar 23;335(6075):1513-6. PMID: 22442487

O'Rourke, S. et al. (2011). A Survey of New Temperature-Sensitive, Embryonic-Lethal Mutations in C. elegans: 24 Alleles of Thirteen Genes. PLoS ONE 6(3)

Claire Geddes Currently rotating    
Marina Garrett Callaway
Institute for Neural Computation Fellowship
Marshel, J.H., Garrett, M.E., Nauhaus, I. & E.M. Callaway (2011) Functional specialization of seven mouse visual cortical areas. Neuron. 72, 1040-1054. PMCID: PMC3248795 [Available on 2012/12/22]
Wesley Gifford Pfaff
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Pre-doctoral Fellowship

Bruno IG, Karam R, Huang L, Bhardwaj A, Lou CH, Shum EY, Song HW, Corbett MA, Gifford WD, Gecz J, Pfaff SL, Wilkinson MF. Identification of a microRNA that activates gene expression by repressing nonsense-mediated RNA decay.Mol Cell. 2011 May 20;42(4):500-10. PMID:21596314

Macfarlan TS, Gifford WD, Agarwal S, Driscoll S, Lettieri K, Wang J, Andrews SE, Franco L, Rosenfeld MG, Ren B, Pfaff SL.Endogenous retroviruses and neighboring genes are coordinately repressed by LSD1/KDM1A.Genes Dev. 2011 Mar 15;25(6):594-607. PMID:21357675
Thomas Gillespie Currently rotating    
Alex Goetz Zou   Brody,S., Oelhafen, K., Schneider, K., Perrino, S., Goetz, A., Wang, C. and English, C.,“Circadian rhythms in Neurospora crassa: Downstream effectors,” Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2010. 47(2): 159-168.
Heidi Gonzalez Cline    
Aran Groves Chun    
Andrea Hartzell Currently rotating   Hartzell AL, Burke SN, Hoang LT, Lister JP, Rodriguez CN, Barnes CA. Transcription of the Immediate-Early Gene Arc in CA1 of the Hippocampus Reveals Activity Differences along the Proximodistal Axis That Are Attenuated by Advanced Age. Journal of Neuroscience. In press.
Alex Heitman Chichilnisky    
Kerin Higa Geyer    
Sean Itthipuripat Serences  

Zimmer U, Itthipanyanan S, Grent-'t-Jong T, Woldorff MG. (2010) The electrophysiological time course of the interaction of stimulus conflict and the multisensory spread of attention.Eur J Neurosci. 31(10):1744-54.

Frontal theta is a signature of successful working memory manipulation. Itthipuripat S, Wessel JR, Aron AR.Exp Brain Res. 2013 Jan;224(2):255-62. 

Temporal Dynamics of Divided Spatial Attention.Itthipuripat S, Garcia JO, Serences JT.J Neurophysiol. 2013 Feb 6
Kiely James Baldwin/Ghosh    
Stephen Johnston Currently rotating    
Victory Joseph Lin  

Vasireddy V, Chavali VR, Joseph VT, Kadam R, Lin JH, Jamison JA, Kompella UB, Reddy GB, Ayyagari R. Rescue of photoreceptor degeneration by curcumin in transgenic rats with P23H rhodopsin mutation. PLoS One. 2011;6(6):e21193. PMID:21738619

Hiramatsu N, Joseph VT, Lin JH.Monitoring and manipulating mammalian unfolded protein response. Methods Enzymol. 2011;491:183-98. PMID:21329801
Ashley Juavinett Callaway  

Juavinett, A.L., Stewart, J.L., Shukla, A., Paulus, M.P. “Altered interoceptive processing in stimulant users who develop problems versus those that do not.” To be presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry Conference, May 2012 Abstract

Juavinett, A.L., Stewart, J.L., Shukla, A., Paulus, M.P. "Something feels different: altered neural processing of aversive interoceptive stimuli in problem users vs. desisters." To be presented at the College on Problems of Drug Dependence Conference, June 2012 Abstract
Erik Kaestner Halgren/Poizner    
Al Kaye Sharpee/Callaway    
Jason Keller Stowers    
Justin Kiggins Gentner NSF GRFP Kiggins JT, Comins JA and Gentner TQ (2012) Targets for a Comparative Neurobiology of Language. Front. Evol. Neurosci. 4:6. doi:10.3389/fnevo.2012.00006 PMCID pending
Landon Klein Currently rotating    
Daniel Knudsen Gentner  

Gentner TQ, Knudsen D (2010) Mechanisms of Song Perception in Oscine birds. Brain and Language, 115(1), 59-68. PMC2932808

Knudsen D, Thompson JV, Gentner TQ (2010) Distributed recognition of natural songs by European starlings. Learning and Motivation, 41(4), 287-306. PMC2957653

 

Adam Koerner de Sa    
Kelly Landy Salmon NRSA (Predoctoral Fellowship) Hamilton JM, Landy KM, SalmonDP, Hansen LA, Masliah E, Galasko D. Early Visuospatial Deficits Predict the Occurrence of Visual Hallucinations in Autopsy-Confirmed Dementia With Lewy Bodies. Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2011 Oct 12. PMID: 21997600
Melissa Lau Cline NSF GRFP  
Sarah Leinwand Chalasani NSF GRFP Leinwand, S.G.and Chalasani, S.H. (2011). Olfactory networks: from sensation to perception. Curr. Opin in Genet. & Dev. 21, 806-811. Not funded by NIH. PMID: 21889328
Jessica Lichter X. Jin    
Tony Lien Scanziani   Lien AD, Scanziani M. In vivo labeling of constellations of functionally identified neurons for targeted in vitro recordings. Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2011 5: Article 16
Tiger Wutu Lin Sejnowski    
Adnan Majid Aron NSRA

Seibert TM, Majid DS, Aron AR, Corey-Bloom J, Brewer JB. Stability of resting fMRI interregional correlations analyzed in subject-native space: a one-year longitudinal study in healthy adults and premanifest Huntington's disease. Neuroimage. 2012 Feb 1;59(3):2452-63. PMID:21945695

Majid DS, Cai W, George JS, Verbruggen F, Aron AR (2011a) Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Reveals Dissociable Mechanisms for Global Versus Selective Corticomotor Suppression Underlying the Stopping of Action. Cerebral Cortex.PMID: 21666129

Majid DS, Stoffers D, Sheldon S, Hamza S, Thompson WK, Goldstein J, Corey-Bloom J, Aron AR (2011b) Automated structural imaging analysis detects premanifest Huntington's disease neurodegeneration within 1 year. Movent Disorders. PMID: 21484871

Majid DS, Aron AR, Thompson W, Sheldon S, Hamza S, Stoffers D, Holland D, Goldstein J, Corey-Bloom J, Dale AM (2011c) Basal ganglia atrophy in prodromal Huntington's disease is detectable over one year using automated segmentation. Movement disorders. PMID: 21932302
Rachel Mak-McCully Halgren    
Emily Mankin S. Leutgeb   Mankin EA, Sparks FT, Slayyeh B, Sutherland RJ, Leutgeb S, Leutgeb JK.
Neuronal code for extended time in the hippocampus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
2012 Nov 20;109(47):19462-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1214107109. Epub 2012 Nov 6. PubMed PMID: 23132944; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3511087.
Kelsey Mason Currently rotating    
David Matthews Kleinfeld NSF GRFP I. Valmianski, A. Y. Shih, J. D. Driscoll, D. W. Matthews, Y. Freund and D. Kleinfeld. Automatic identification of labeled brain cells and blood vessels for rapid functional imaging. Journal of Neurophysiology (2010) 104:1803-1811. PMID: 20610792
Ethan McBride Currently rotating  

McBride, E. G., Rubel, E. W. and Wang, Y. (2013), Afferent regulation of chicken auditory brainstem neurons: Rapid changes in phosphorylation of elongation factor 2. J. Comp. Neurol., 521: 1165–1183.

Akinori Mitani Currently rotating    
Jeffrey Moore Kleinfeld  

D. N. Hill, J. C. Curtis, J. D. Moore and D. Kleinfeld. Primary motor cortex reports afferent control of vibrissa motion on multiple time scales.Neuron (2011) 72:344–356. PMID: 22017992

M. Deschênes, J. D. Moore and D. Kleinfeld. Sniffing and whisking in rodents.  Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2012) [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 22177596
Elizabeth Murphy Brewer Alzheimer's Association Young Scholar Award

Seibert TM, Murphy EA, Kaestner EJ, Brewer JB. Interregional Correlations in Parkinson Disease and Parkinson-related Dementia with Resting Functional MR Imaging. Radiology. 2012 Apr;263(1):226-34.PMID:22371611

Murphy EA, Roddey JC, McEvoy LK, Holland D, Hagler DJ Jr, Dale AM, Brewer JB; CETP polymorphisms associate with brain structure, atrophy rate, and Alzheimer's disease risk in an APOE-dependent manner. Brain Imaging Behav. 2012 Mar;6(1):16-26. PMID:21892657

Murphy EA, Holland D, Donohue M, McEvoy LK, Hagler DJ Jr, Dale AM, Brewer JB; Six-month atrophy in MTL structures is associated with subsequent memory decline in elderly controls. Neuroimage. 2010 Dec;53(4):1310-7. PMID:20633660
Orlangie Natera Mobley    
Sarah Parylak Zorrilla  

Sabino V, Cottone P, Parylak SL, Steardo L, Zorrilla EP. 2009. Sigma-1 receptor knockout mice display a depressive-like phenotype. Behav. Brain Res. PMID: 19100292

Parylak, S.L., Cottone, P., Zorrilla, E.P., Eating Disorders: Animal Models. In Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Ed. Stolerman, I.,Springer, Berlin, 2010. New.

Parylak SL, Koob GF, Zorrilla EP. 2011. The dark side of food addiction. Physiol Behav. PMID: 21557958
Shamit Patel Currently rotating National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship  
Krista Perks Gentner    
Andy Peters Komiyama   Schmid MC, Mrowka SW, Turchi J, Saunders RC, Wilke M, Peters AJ, Ye FQ, Leopold DA (2010). Blindsight depends on the lateral geniculate nucleus. Nature, 466, 373-7. 
 
Lacey S, Peters A, Sathian K (2007) Cross-Modal Object Recognition Is Viewpoint-Independent. PLoS ONE, 2, e890.
Jason Pipkin Kristan    
Kathleen Quach Currently rotating    
Emilie Reas Brewer
Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories Fellowship, UCSD, 2011

Reas ET, Gimbel SI, Hales JB, Brewer JB. Search-Related Suppression of Hippocampus and Default Network Activity during Associative Memory Retrieval.Front Hum Neurosci. 2011;5:112. PMID:22046159

Reas ET & Brewer JB (2013). Effortful retrieval reduces hippocampal activity and impairs incidental encoding. Hippocampus.
 
Reas ET & Brewer JB (2013). Retrieval search and strength evoke dissociable brain activity during episodic memory recall. J Cog Neurosci, 25(2).
Kimberly Reinhold Scanziani    
Sequoyah Reynoso Currently rotating    
Robert Saddawi-Konefka Bui   Saddawi-Konefka R, Crawford JR. Chronic viral infection and primary central nervous system malignancy. Neuroimmune Pharmacol. 2010 Sep;5(3):387-403. PMID:20387126
Laura Sancho Currently rotating    
Maya Sapiurka Clark/Squire    
Sam Scudder Patrick    
Natalie Shanks Nakagawa  
Shanks, N.F., Maruo, T., Farina, A. N., Ellisman, M. H., and Nakagawa, T. (2010) Contribution of the global subunit structure and stargazin on the maturation of AMPA receptors. J. Neurosci. 30: 2728-2740.
 
Shanks, N.F., Savas, J.N., Maruo, T., Cais, O., Hirao, A., Oe, S., Ghosh, A., Noda, Y., Greger, I.H., Yates, J.R., 3rd, and Nakagawa, T. Differences in AMPA and Kainate Receptor Interactomes Facilitate Identification of AMPA Receptor Auxiliary Subunit GSG1L. Cell Rep 1, 590-598.
Panid Sharifnia Y. Jin    
Tommy Sprague Serences NSF GRFP  
Tyler Steed Chen    
Nicole Swann Aron NSF GRFP, NIH INC training grant, NSF GK-12 fellowship
Swann, N.C., Cai, W., Conner, C.R., Pieters, T.A., Claffey, M.P., George, J.S., Aron, A.R., Tandon, N., 2011. Roles for the pre-supplementary motor area and the right inferior frontal gyrus in stopping action: Electrophysiological responses and functional and structural connectivity. Neuroimage. (in press)
 
Swann NC, Poizner H, Houser M, Gould S, Greenhouse I, Cai W, Strunk J, George J, Aron AR (2011) Deep brain stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus alters the cortical profile of response inhibition in the beta frequency band: a scalp EEG study in Parkinson's disease. Journal of Neuroscience 31, 5721-5729. 
 
Swann NC, Tandon N, Canolty R, Ellmore TM, McEvoy LK, Dreyer S, DiSano M, Aron AR (2009) Intracranial EEG reveals a time- and frequency-specific role for the right inferior frontal gyrus and primary motor cortex in stopping initiated responses. Journal of Neuroscience 29:12675-12685.
Marvin Thielk Currently rotating    
Rachel Tsunemoto Baldwin NSF GRFP Kim D, Frank C, Dobbin M, Tsunemoto R, Tu W, Peng P, Guan JS, Lee BH, Moy L, Giusti P, Broodie N, Mazitschek R, Delalle I, Haggarty S, Neve R, Lu YM, Tsai LH. (2008). Deregulation of HDAC1 by p25/Cdk5 in neurotoxicity. Neuron 60, 803-817
Priya Velu de Sa  

Velu, P., Hammon, P., Mullen, T., & de Sa, V.  Dissociating visual response and motor preparation in reach prediction.Program No. 360.8 2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2009. Abstract.

Mullen, T., Velu, P., Hammon, P., de Sa, V., & Makeig, S. On the analysis and visualization of information flow dynamics in EEG and ECoG using parametric and non-parametric Granger-causal techniques. Program No. 894.13 2009 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner. Chicago, IL: Society for Neuroscience, 2009. Abstract.

Velu, P., de Sa, V.  EEG features of gait intent for application to brain computer interfaces . Program No. 689.25 2010 Abstract Viewer and Itinerary Planner.  San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. 

 

Nicholas Wall Callaway  
Wall NR, Wickersham IR, Cetin A, De La Parra M, Callaway EM. Monosynaptic
circuit tracing in vivo through Cre-dependent targeting and complementation of modified rabies virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Dec 14;107(50):21848-53.doi: 10.1073/pnas. 1011756107. Epub 2010 Nov 29. PubMed PMID: 21115815; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3003023.
 
Haubensak, W., Kunwar, P.S., Cai, H., Ciocchi, S., Wall, N.R., Ponnusamy, R., Biag, J., Dong, H.W., Deisseroth, K., Callaway, E.M., Fanselow, M.S., Lüthi, A. & D.J. Anderson (2010) Genetic dissection of an amygdala microcircuit that gates conditioned fear. Nature 468, 270-276. PMID: 21068836 [PMC – awaiting journal input] 
 
Miyamichi, K., Amat, F., Moussavi, F., Wang, C., Wickersham, I., Wall, N.R., Taniguchi, H., Tasic, B., Huang, Z.J., He, Z., Callaway, E.M., Horowitz, M.A. & L. Luo L (2011) Cortical representations of olfactory input by trans-synaptic tracing. Nature 472, 191-196. PMCID: PMC3073090
 
Geoffrey Weiner Currently rotating    
April Weissmiller Mobley