2007-2008 Applicants

Name: Kyle Lynn Gobrogge
School: FSU
Topic: Amygdala Dopamine Regulation of Pair-Bonding Induced Selective Aggression in Male Prairie Voles

Name: Rikki Somers
School: FSU
Topic: Zinc Regulation of Human Neuronal Precursor Cell Survival.

Name: Amy Chen
School: UF
Topic: Application of Adult Stem/Progenitor Cells in the Therapeutic Treatment of Cerebellar Degenerative Disease Models

Name: Firas Kobeissy
School: UF
Topic: Psychoproteimic Analysis of Differential Protein Expression in the area of Drug of Abuse

Name: John A. Thompson
School: FSU
Topic: The Role of Auditory Feedback in the Recovery of Vocal Behavior following HVC Damage

Name: Grace Ha
School: UF
Topic: Mechanisms underlying T cell-mediated neuroprotection in the injured brain: From motor to limbic neurons.

Name: Celeste Karch
School: UF
Topic: Examining the Role of Disulfide Bonds in Superoxide Dismutase 1 Aggregate Formulation in Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Name: Milapjit Singh Sandhu
School: UF
Topic: Neural repair and respiratory recovery after cervical Spinal Cord injury

Name: Karen Alvarez-Delfin
School: FSU
Topic: Characterization of a zebrafish locus that regulates rod and ultraviolet cone photoreceptor cell fates during retinal development.

Name: Kathryn Carzoli
School: FSU
Topic: Role of metabotropic glutamate receptors in cell death following deafness.

Name: Tiffanie Holloway
School: FSU
Topic: Understanding the Role of the Basal Ganglia in Motor Disorders using a Songbird Model.

Name: Melissa L. Maffeo
School: FSU
Topic: Nicotine exposure during adolescence regulates behavioral responsiveness to mood eliciting stimuli in adulthood.

Name: Melissa M. Messina
School: FSU
Topic: Mechanisms by which estradiol regulates metabolism and visceral adiposity.

Name: Alisa Millet
School: FSU
Topic: Understanding the role of Notch pathway genes in normal development to gain insight into their aberrant function in neural disorders.

Name: Todd Stincic
School: FSU
Topic: Role of Cannabinoids in Neural Plasticity

Name: Jennifer Stratford
School: FSU
Topic: Sex Differences in Gustatory Processing of Free Fatty Acids: Insight into the Etiology of Obesity

Name: Kimberly Young
School: FSU
Topic: Drugs of abuse alter the dopaminergic neurocircuitry necessary for social bonding: Amphetamine induced alterations in the mesolimbic reward circuitry of the monogamous prairie vole.

Name: Brian F. Fuller
School: UF
Topic: The Effects of Secondhand Smoke Exposure on the Developing Brain

Name: Kryslaine Lopes
School: UF
Topic: Long-term iron storage contributes to microglial degeneration in the aged and Alzheimer’s Disease brains

Name: Catherine Marcinkiewcz
School: UF
Topic: Regulation of Mesolimbic Brain Reward Systems by CRF Pathways in the Central amygdala during Nicotine Withdrawal

Name: Kelly Miller
School: UF
Topic: Analysis of Microglial Function in the Aged Brain

Name: Jeremiah Mitzelfelt
School: UF
Topic: In-vivo analysis of single-unit firing preceding seizure onset in an animal model of temporal loge epilepsy for the development of neuroprosthetic treatments.

Name: Emalick Njie
School: UF
Topic: Functional characterization of microglial amyloid degradation capacity in aged and Alzheimer’s disease models

Name: Jonathan Verrier
School: UF
Topic: A Novel Mechanism for Myelin Gene Regulation