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Extramural Grant Recipients

2008-2010
Brandi K. Ormerod, PhD	*Neural Stem Cells and Inflammation: Implications for*
	*Alzheimer's Disease*

Randal J. Bateman, MD	*Blood Test for Alzheimer's Disease; Measuring*
	*Amyloid Beta Production & Clearance Rates in Blood*

2006-2008
Gang Yu, PhD	*NAD Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease*

2004-2006
Michael S. McGrath, MD, PhD	*Role of Macrophage Activation and Human*
	*Endogenous Retrovirus Expression in*
	*Alzheimer’s Disease*

2002-2004
Michael D. Greicius, MD, MPH	*A Novel fMRI Method of the Detection of*
	*Incipient Alzheimer's Disease*

2000-2002
Sangram S. Sisodia, PhD	*Hippocampal Vulnerability in Mouse Models*
	*of Alzheimer’s Disease*

1998 – 2000
David Holtzman, MD	*CNS-derived ApoE: Role in Lipid / Cholesterol*
	*Metabolism*

1996 – 1998
Eliezer Masliah, MD	*Synotopic Effects of ApoE*

1994 – 1996
Gail V.W. Johnson, PhD	*The Calcium-Dependant Crosslinking of Tau by*
	*Transglutaminase: A Possible Rule in*
	*Neurofibrillary Tangle Formation*

1992 – 1994
Fred H. Gage, PhD	*Growth Factors in Alzheimer’s Disease*

Stanley B. Prusiner, MD	Neurodegeneration in Libyan Jews with Prion
	*Protein Gene Mutations – Modeling The Disease*
	In Transgenic Mice

1990 - 1992
Allen D. Roses, MD	*APOE and Alzheimer’s Disease*

Dennis J. Selkoe, MD	Molecular Pathology of Neuronal Degeneration
	*in Alzheimer’s Disease*

Intramural Grant Recipients
2008-2009
Emily F. Ozdowski, PhD	*Regulation of the Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia gene, spastin, and its neuronal microtubule severing function*
	Department of Biology
	Advisor - Nina T. Sherwood, PhD

Michelle R. Tougas	*Transcriptional Regulation of Calcium Signaling and Calcium Homeostasis in Neurons*
	Department of Neurobiology
	Advisor - Anne E. West, MD, PhD

2007-2009
Nicole Calakos, MD, PhD	*Cognitive Enhancers? Exploring Novel Pathways for the Treatment of Cognitive Impairment*
	Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology
	Department of Neurobiology

2006-2007
Georgia M. Alexander, PhD	*Actin cytoskeleton and epileptogenesis*
	Department of Neurobiology
	Advisor – James O. McNamara, MD

Kafui Dzirasa	*Dopaminergic control of REM sleep in mice*
	Department of Neurobiology
	Advisor – Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, MD, PhD

Jason J. Yi	*Molecular mechanisms of axonopathy and neurodegeneration*
	Department of Neurobiology
	Advisor – Michael D. Ehlers, MD, PhD

2005-2007
Guoping Feng, PhD	*Roles of Actin Regulatory Proteins in Synaptic Development and Plasticity*
	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
	Department of Neurobiology

2005-2006
Kathryn H. Condon	*Uncovering the Pathogenesis of Angelman’s Syndrome through understanding Ube3a*
	Advisor – Michael D. Ehlers, MD, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Qing Cheng, MD, PhD	*Synapsins and BDNF Regulation of Synaptic Transmission in a Genetic Model of Schizophrenia*
	Advisor – George J. Augustine, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

2004-2005
Margie A. Ream	*Mechanisms of Catecholamine Release in the Midgestation Fetus*
	Advisor – Donna M. Chikaraishi, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology


Shengli Zhao, MD, PhD	*Molecular Mechanisms Regulating the Formation of Neuronal Cholinergic Synapses*
	Advisor – Guoping Feng, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

2003-2005
Michael Ehlers, MD, PhD	*Proteomic Analysis of Synaptic Signaling Complexes in Animal Models of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease*
	Assistant Professor of Neurobiology
	Department of Neurobiology

2003-2004
Dayu Lin	*Learning, Memory and Recognition of Complex Mixtrues in the Olfactory System*
	Advisor – Lawrence Katz, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Steven Danzer, PhD	*The Role of TrkB in Regulating Neuronal Degeneration in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy*
	Advisor – James O. McNamara, MD
	Department of Neurobiology

2002-2003
Yulong Li	*Characterization of the Timing of Complexins Action in Synaptic Transmission*
	Advisor - George Augustine, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Michael Joseph Parker, PhD	*Postsynaptic Assembly of Neuronal Cholinergic Synapses*
	Advisor - Guoping Feng, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology
2001-2002
Elizabeth Carroll	*The Role of a Novel Mouse Gene, Cordon-bleu, in Neural Growth and Patterning*
	Advisor – John Klingensmith, PhD
	Department of Cell Biology

April Horton	Secretory Protein Trafficking in Neurons
	Advisor – Michael D. Ehlers, MD, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Ingrid Svenson	*Subcellular Localization of Spastin and Functional Analysis of Spastin Gene Mutations in Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia*
	Advisor – Douglas A. Marchuk, PhD
	Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Paul Young, PhD	Mechanisms Regulating the Formation of Neuronal Cholinergic Synapses
	Advisor – Guoping Feng, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

2000-2001
Ketan Bulsara, MD	*CNS Axonal Regeneration is*
	*Influenced by Embryonic Proteins*
	Advisor – J.H. Pate Skene, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Benjamin Rubin	*Odor Perception and Coding in*
	*the Mammalian Olfactory Bulb*
	Advisor – Lawrence C. Katz, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Derek Scott	*Assembly and Cell Surface Trafficking*
	*On NMDA Receptors*
	Advisor – Michael Ehlers, MD, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

1999-2000
Scott May	*Cloning and Characterization of the*
	*Shrunken Head Mutation*
	Advisor – Andrew S. Peterson, PhD
	Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology

Jennifer Morgan	*The Functional Role of Clathrin-*
	*Mediated Endocytosis in Nerve*
	*Terminals*
	Advisor – George J. Augustine, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

1998 – 1999
Jennifer Anderson	*Search for Genetic Modifier(s) for Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Type I*
	Advisor – Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, PhD
	Department of Medicine

Justin Crowley	*Neural Patterning Forces and Cortical Feature Map Formation*
	Advisors – Lawrence C. Katz, PhD, David Fitzpatrick, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

1997 – 1998
Talene Yacoubian	*Elucidating the Function of Neurotrophin Receptors in Neural Growth and Degeneration*
	Advisor – Donald C. Lo, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

1996 – 1997
Stephanie M. Fullerton	*ApoE in the Peripheral Nervous System*
	Advisor – William D. Matthew, PhD
	Department of Pediatrics

A. Kimberly McAllister	*Neurotrophic Regulation of Cortical Dendritic Growth*
	Advisor – Lawrence C. Katz, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

Mark J. Routbout	*Synaptic Rearrangement of Mossy Fiber Sprouting*
	Advisor – James O. McNamara, MD
	Department of Neurobiology

1995 – 1996
David Y. Huang	*Molecular Interactions Related to Alzheimer’s Disease*
	Advisor – Warren J. Strittmatter, MD
	Department of Neurobiology

Steven S. Lesser	*Regulation of Cholinergic Function by NGF and CNTF in Model Neuronal Cell Lines and Primary Cultured Neurons from Basal Forebrain and Hippocampus*
	Advisor – William D. Matthew, PhD
	Department of Pediatrics

A. Kimberly McAllister	*Neurotrophic Regulation of Cortical Dendritic Growth*
	Advisor – Lawrence C. Katz, PhD
	Department of Neurobiology

1994 - 1995
David Y. Huang	*Molecular Interactions Related to Alzheimer’s Disease*
	Advisor – Warren J. Strittmatter, MD
	Department of Neurobiology

Steven S. Lesser	*Regulation of Cholinergic Function by NGF and*
	*CNTF in Model Neuronal Cell Lines and Primary*
	Cultured Neurons from Basal Forebrain and
	*Hippocampus*
	Advisor – William D. Matthew, PhD
	Department of Pediatrics

International Postdoctoral Fellowship Award Recipients
2008-2010
Romulo Fuentes, PhD	*Characterization of Neuronal Population Activity in the Olfactory Bulb of Behaving Animals*
	Department of Neurobiology
	Advisor - Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, MD, PhD

2005-2007	Neuronal Mechanisms of Olfactory Imprinting in Rodents
Yoram Ben-Shaul, PhD	Deparment of Neurobiology
	Advisors – Lawrence C. Katz, PhD and Richard D. Mooney, PhD

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