Nine 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.
Kevin L. Briggman University of California – San Diego “Sensory integration in the toad visual system under dim threshold conditions”
Cristiane del Corso, Ph.D. Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Yeshiva University “Biophysical properties of connexins isolated from Ascidiacea”
Andrew T. E. Hartwick Dalhousie University “Light-evoked calcium dynamics in melanopsin retinal ganglion cells”
Quan (Donny) V. Hoang University of Illinois at Chicago “Gap junctional channel-mediated communication between retinal pigment epithelial cells”
Petronella Kettunen, Ph.D. Karolinsky Institutet “Metabotropic glutamate receptors in the zebrafish spinal cord”
Elizabeth Prescott, Ph.D. Yale University “Development of a zebrafish model system to study ribbon synapse dynamics”
Kimberlei A. Richardson, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes “The effect of development on the activation of neurons involved in neonatal opioid dependence”
Alvaro Sagasti, Ph.D. New York University School of Medicine “Cytoskeletal control of zebrafish sensory neuron branching”
Xiang Yu, Ph.D. Stanford University Medical Center “Effect of changes in dendritic morphology mediated by the cadherin/catenin complex on the synaptic properties of CA1 pyramidal neurons”
