The Students of the Gomez lab
The current crop:
Allison Greco
(above) is working on the effects of hypoxic and hyperoxic stress on embryonic
chick cardiac myocyte metabolism.
Kimmie Patel (left) and Kellie Casey (right) are working on the effects of glucose on astrocyte metabolism and protein expression in vitro.
| Alesia Walsh is working on the effects of glucose on avian olfactory neurogenesis and neuronal differentiation in vitro. She was recently accepted into our Honors Program and will be working in my laboratory. |  |
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Kristen Fenocchi is in the early stages of project design. She was recently accepted into our Honors Program and will be working in my laboratory. |
******************Gomez lab alumni
The class of 2008 were all graduates of the Honors Program at the University of Scranton. Mary Kate Hoffman (left) worked on the role of plasma membrane calcium channels in in
vitro olfactory function.
Amanda Celii (above) worked on the
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Jim Costanzo worked on mechanisms of odorant-elicited calcium decreases in chick olfactory neurons as part of his Honors Thesis.
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All these students enrolled in medical school in Fall 2006: AC and KD-
Thomas Jefferson University; JC- University of Pittsburgh; SD-
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Kristin Doyle worked on mechansims of in vitro maturation of chick olfactory neurons as part of the Faculty-Student Research Program.
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Diedra Amendola (2003-2005) worked on a number of research projects in the laboratory. She started off testing odorant sensitivity in cultured bird olfactory cells (as this photo of her poster presentation will attest). She also assited in the study of the physiological properties of acutely isolated chick olfactory neurons. She also presented her research in the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA, in November 2003 (she has yet to learn how to pronounce "N'awlins" properly) and co-authored the publication with Yewah Jung (below). She is currently a student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. |
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Yewah Jung (2003-2004) conducted research on the
physiology of chick olfactory neurons as part of the Faculty-Student Research
Program and as the recepient of the Steven Sawyer Memorial Award (Summer
2003). She also presented her research in the annual meeting of the
Society for Neuroscience, |
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2003 Graduates
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Left:Jennifer Crockett, 2002-2003 Right:Eric Wirkus, 2002-2003 |
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Jen has the distinction of being the first student to
ever work in my UofS laboratory. She worked on characterizing the timecourse
of functional maturation in human olfactory neurons. She graduated from the |
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Eric conducted research on chick olfactory neurons for his Honors Thesis. This picture shows his "finer" side as he cares for his pet chick that was hatched in the lab. He named it "Maximus" so as not to appear "too fine" . |
