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2004 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. Daphne Soares, University of Maryland, is the program’s associate director.
Rachel Mary Berquist, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota, Duluth
“Response dynamics of saccular afferent fibers in free-swimming toadfish, Opsanus tau”
Manuel Estrada, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine
“Effects of steroid hormones on intracellular Ca2+ signaling in a neuronal cell line”
Michael A. Farries
University of Washington Medical Center
“Long-term synaptic plasticity in nucleus RA of the zebra finch: a possible substrate for song learning”
Robert Crooks Froemke
University of California, Berkeley
“The cellular mechanisms and synaptic organization of neocortical receptive fields”
Eric Briant Gonzales
University of North Texas Health Science Center
“Kinetic determinants of the second transmembrane domain 7’ position in the glycine α1 receptor”
Emma Heart, Ph.D.
Evans Biomedical Research Center
“NAD(P)H oscillations in pancreatic islet cells and their modulations by metabolic and electric stimuli”
Leib Litman
Brooklyn College
“In search of a model organism for complex forms of implicit learning: exploring crypsis and the serial reaction time task in cuttlefish”
Mark H. Shalinsky, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College
“An electrophysiological study of the lung rhythm in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, as an evolutionary precursor to gasping in mammals”
James Jiayuan Tong, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
“Mitochondria dynamics in synaptic plasticity and learning”
Yumiko Umino, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
“Processing of visual information of Limulus brain”
Tamily A. Weissman
Columbia University
“The Alzheimer’s disease pathway meets neural development: does presenilin process the reelin receptor and regulate neuronal migration?”
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