Doctoral Graduates from the Laboratory of Professor Jonathan B.
Cohen
Paul
A.
St. John, Ph.D. , 1980
- Thesis Title "Ultrastructure and Biochemical Studies of the
Acetylcholine Receptor of Torpedo californica"
- Present position: Associate Professor of Cell Biology and
Anatomy
at the University of Arizona
- To contact Professor St. John click here .
Terrell
T. Gibbs, Ph.D. , 1980
- Thesis Title "Kinetics and Pharmacology of Sodium Transport by
the
Acetylcholine Receptor of Cultured Chicken Skeletal Muscle"
- Present position: Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the
Boston
University
- To contact Professor Gibbs click here .
Richard R. Neubig,
M.D., Ph.D. , 1980
- Thesis Title "Agonist and Antagonist Interactions with
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors from Torpedo: A Comparison of
Binding and Function"
- Present position: Professor of Pharmacology and Associate
Professor
of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan
- To contact Professor Neubig click here .
Daniel C. Medynski, Ph.D., 1983
- Thesis Title "Histrionicotoxin and Aromatic Amine Interactions
with
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors from Torpedo:
Characterization of
Equilibrium Binding and Kinetic Properties"
Evan B.
Dreyer, M.D., Ph.D. , 1984
- Thesis Title "Affinity Labelling Studies of the Acetylcholine
Receptor"
- Present position: Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at the
Scheie
Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania
- To contact Professor Dreyer click here .
Nina P. Strnad, Ph.D. 1988
- Thesis Title "Binding of Agonists and Noncompetitive
Antagonists to
the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"
Richard E. Middleton, Ph.D. 1991
- Thesis Title "Photoaffinity Labeling of Agonist and
Noncompetitive
Antagonist Binding Sites of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"
- Present position: Senior Research Biochemist in Greg
Kaczorowki's
Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics Group in Roy Smith's Biochemistry
and
Physiology Department in Ed Scolnick's Division at Merck Research Labs,
a
branch of Merck & Co., Inc.
- To contact Dr. Middleton click here .
Benjamin H.
White, Ph.D. , 1991
- Thesis Title "Structural Characterization of the Nicotinic
Acetylcholine Receptor using the Hydrophobic Photoreagent
3-(Trifluoromethyl)-3-m -([125I]Iodophenyl)Diazirine"
- Present position: Investigator in Neuroscience at the National
Insitiute of Health
- To contact Dr. White click here
.
David C. Chiara, M.D., Ph.D., 1996
- Thesis Title "Structural Studies of the Nicotinic
Acetylcholine Receptor, A Ligand-Gated Ion Channel,"
- Present position: Research Associate in the Department of
Neurobiology at Harvard University
- To contact Dr. Chiara click here .
Martin
J. Gallagher, M.D., Ph.D. , 1996
- Thesis Title "Binding Domains for Noncompetitive Antagonists
in the
Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Ion Channel"
- Present position: Assistant Professor of Neurology at
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- To contact Professor Gallagher click here
.
Megan B. Pratt, Ph.D., 1999
- Thesis Title "Mapping the Sites of Binding of Noncompetitive
Antagonists on the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor
Jonathan C. Trinidad, Ph.D., 2002
- Thesis Title "The Localization and Function of Neuregulin and
the ErbB Receptors at the Neuromuscular Junction"
- Present position: Postdoc Fellow in the Department of
Pharmaceutical
Chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco
- To contact Dr. Trinidad click here .
Michael J. Bianchetta, Ph.D., 2004
- Thesis Title "Self-Association of the Muscle-Specific Receptor
Tyrosine Kinase MuSK"
- Present position: Postdoc Fellow in the Department of
Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School, Boston
- To contact Dr. Bianchetta click here .
Filbert H. Hong, Ph.D., 2004
- Thesis Title "Agonist and Antagonist Interactions with the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor"
- Present position: Production and Personnel Manager of the National Philharmonic Orchestra, Washington D.C.
- Contact Dr. Hong at: fhong at post.harvard.edu
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