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Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr.
Christine K. Wagner (1997-1998)
Currently Associate Professor at State
University of New York, Albany
Dr.
Joong-Jean Park (1999-2001)
Currently Assistant Professor, Korea University Medical School.
Greta Rosen (2001-2006)
Dr.
Melissa Holmes (2005 - present)
Dr.
Shin-ichi Hisasue (2006 - present)
Doctoral
students: Jun
Xu (PhD: 1999)
Thesis: Androgen modulation of neurotrophic
factor action: A mechanism for sexually
dimorphic neural development.
Currently an Assistant Professor at
Tufts University
Susan
L. Zup (PhD: 2002)
Thesis: The role of Bcl-2 family members
in sexual differentiation and adult
neural plasticity.
Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
Dena
Jacob (PhD: 2007)
Thesis: The role of cell death in
the development of a sexually dimorphic
neuromuscular system.
Marianne Seney (current PhD student)
Studying effects of sex and breeding status on neural development in naked mole-rats.
Patrick Taylor (current PhD student)
Studying the expression of cell death genes in the sexually dimorphic brain.
Master’s students:
Maria Peroulakis
(MS: 2001)
Thesis: Characterization of perineal
muscles and motoneurons in the naked
mole-rat (Heterocephalus glaber).
Currently employed as a Neuroendocrine
Toxicologist at Eli
Lilly, and adjunct faculty at
the University of Indianapolis.
Ernest
Pedapati (MS: 2002)
Thesis: The effect of endogenous neurotrophic
factors on the development of the
rat perineal muscles.
Currently employed as a Research Associate
at UCB
Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Tina Gotsiridze
(MS: 2005)
Thesis: The Development of Sex Differences in the Principal Nucleus of the Bed Nucleus of the Stria Terminalis of Mice. Currently studying medicine at SUNY Buffalo.
Lauren Ditzian
(MS: 2006)
Thesis: Time-course of developmental
cell death in the spinal nucleus of
the bulbocavernosus of mice.
Jigyasa Jyotika (current)
Undergraduate Honors
Theses:
Carly Varela
(BS:1998; MD:2002)
Thesis: Effects of ciliary neurotrophic
factor and testosterone on the developing
levator ani muscle of the female rat.
Heather
Carrier (BS: 2000)
Thesis: Effects of Bcl-2 overexpression
on the sexual differentiation of the
anteroventral periventricular nucleus
in the mouse.
Karen
Gingras (BS: 2001)
Thesis: Effects of TrkB-IgG on the
spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus
and its target muscles in male rat
pups.
Abigail
Tabor (BS: 2001)
Thesis: Effects of Bcl-2 overexpression
on developmental cell death in the
spinal cord.
Lauren Ditzian
(BS: 2005)
Thesis: The time-course of developmental cell death in the spinal nucleus of the bulbocavernosus of mice.
Michelle
Jardon (BS: 2005)
Thesis: Effects of Bcl-2 on the sexually dimorphic expression of vasopressin in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis.
Theresa
Ray (BS: 2006)
Thesis: Development of sex differences
in the bulbocavernosus and levator
ani muscles of mice.
JiaJia Gao
(BS: 2007)
Thesis: The effect of sex on perineal
muscles in the Damaraland mole rat
(Cryptomys damarensis)
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