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2003 Grass Fellows

Eleven young scientists have been awarded fellowships by the Grass Foundation to conduct research in neurobiology at the MBL this summer. The program is directed by Susan Barry, Mount Holyoke College. Melissa Ann Vollrath, Harvard Medical School, serves as associate director.

S. Clare Chung, Ph.D.
University of California, San Francisco
“Electrophysiological and anatomical analysis of retinal ganglion cells in zebrafish: Comparison studies between wildtype and motion detection mutants”

Karen Cusato, Ph.D.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“The role of gap junctions in cell death”

Ian Davison
Simon Fraser University
“Spatial extent of GABAB-dependent lateral inhibition in the olfactory bulb”

Gal Haspel
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“Photoactivation of C. elegans neurons”

Sandra J. Kuhlman, Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
“Role for fast GABAergic transmission in promoting synaptic competition”

Anthony Molina
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Localization of retinal horizontal cell proton flux: New insights into extracellular microdomains and their role in visual processing”

Jennifer R. Morgan, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine/HHMI
“Mechanisms of actin regulations during synaptic vesicle endocytosis”

Gabriel J. Murphy
UCSD School of Medicine
“Mechanisms of feedback inhibition in the retina”

Joseph Sisneros, Ph.D.
Cornell University
“Steroid dependent plasticity of auditory hair cell tuning in the plainfin midshipman, Porichthys notatus”

Carlos A. Villalba-Galea, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center
“The timing of protein-protein interactions involved in synaptic vesicle endocytosis”

David G. Zeddies, Ph.D.
Loyola University-Chicago
“An optical measurement of the auditory brainstem response in larval zebrafish”

 
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