Recent Dissertations


The principle focus of the curriculum is the doctoral dissertations. After selection of a dissertation advisor and completion of the Preliminary Examination, a Dissertation Advisory Committee is set up to advise and support the student. This committee meets with the student every 9 months until the dissertation is written. The dissertation is then defended and submitted to the University registrar in fulfillment of the Ph.D. degree requirements. The dissertation may substantially draw on research publications, but it must conform to the guidelines in The Form of the Doctoral Dissertation. Degrees are awarded in June, November, and March.


Irina De la Huerta

  • Expression and role of cadherins in the mammalian visual system.

Joshua Sanes, advisor

Soyon Hong

  • Probing the in vivo economy of amyloid beta-protein during the development of Alzheimer's disease-type pathology.

Dennis Selkoe, advisor

Kuo-Hua Huang

  • Control of Turning Behaviors by Spinal Projection Neurons.

Florian Engert, advisor

Juliette Han

  • The Role of TSC in Oligodendrocyte Differentiation and Myelination.

Mustafa Sahin, advisor

Maria Gelfand

  • Characterization of the in vivo role of Neuropilin1 during development.

Chenghua Gu, advisor

Oulu Wang

  • Glucocorticoids Promote Obesity and Suppression of Reproductive Function During Stress.

Joseph Majzoub, advisor

Brendan Lehnert

  • To Be Supplied Later

Rachel Wilson, advisor

Douglas Ruff

  • Neuronal Tuning and Its Role in Attention.

Richard T. Born, advisor

Amy Meesun Ni

  • Visual Attention and the Role of Normalization.

John Maunsell, advisor

Yi Zhou

  • Transduction in Drosophila olfactory receptor neurons is invariant to air speed.

Rachel Wilson, advisor

Daniel Brady

  • Mechanisms of cross-modal refinement by visual experience.

Takao Hensch, advisor

Kelly Dakin

  • Novel Biological Functions of Hemoglobin in the Brain.

Bruce Yankner, advisor

Jamie Fitzgerald

  • Generalized associative representations in parietal cortex.

John Assad, advisor


J. Stefan Kaczmarek

  • Novel activation mechanisms of TRPC5 reveal its participation in neuronal growth cone collapse.

David Clapham, advisor


Brett Carter

  • Sodium current during and between action potentials of GABAergic and glutamatergic neurons.

Bruce Bean, advisor

Nadia Litterman

  • Regulation of Golgi Morphogenesis and Dendrite Patterning by Ubiquitin Signaling.

Azad Bonni, advisor

Michael Myoga

  •  Calcium-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in the Cerebellum.

Wade Regehr, advisor

 

Aaron Kerlin

  •  Response properties of inhibitory neuron subtypes in mouse visual cortex.

R. Clay Reid, advisor

 

Dravida Das (Davi) Bock

  • Network Anatomy and In Vivo Physiology from a Group of Visual Cortical Neurons.

R. Clay Reid, advisor

 

Andrew Giessel

  •  Local, Non-linear Regulation of Synaptic Signals at Dendritic Spines of CA1 Pyramidal Cells.

Bernardo Sabatini, advisor