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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.

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2008 Graduates

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. Cassie Zagorski (middle) worked on the effects hyperglycemia on protein kinase C in cultured chick astrocytes and endothelial cells.  She is currently a student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Kaci Haines (right) worked on the effects of sensory experience on avian olfactory development.  She is currently in medical school at University of Maryland in Baltimore .

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2008 Graduates

Amanda Celii (above) worked on the anatomical aspects, while Sol de Jesus (below) worked on behavioral aspects of olfactory bulb maturation in chick embryos as part of their Honors Theses. Amanda co-authored a publication with me.	Jim Costanzo worked on mechanisms of odorant-elicited calcium decreases in chick olfactory neurons as part of his Honors Thesis.
All these students enrolled in medical school in Fall 2006: AC and KD- Thomas Jefferson University; JC- University of Pittsburgh; SD- Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico .	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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2005 Graduates

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.

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, New Orleans, LA, in November 2003 and published this work in the Jounral of Comparative Physiology. She is currently a student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Stephanie Yazinski (2003-2005) quantified the relationship between structural and functional maturation in human olfactory neurons as part of her Honors Thesis research.  This research was sponsored by a grant from the National Institutes of Health/NIDCD.  She presented her research in the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans , LA , in November 2003 and is currently a Ph.D. student in Biochemistry at Cornell University .

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2003 Graduates

	Left:Jennifer Crockett, 2002-2003 Right:Eric Wirkus, 2002-2003
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 school of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University.		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" .

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