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The Students of the Gomez lab
The current crop:
| Alesia Walsh is working on the effects of stress on protein expression in chick brain astrocytes, and will be starting research on oral cellular metabolism. |
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Kristen Fenocchi is working on the effects of peroxynitrite on myelination in the chick embryonic nervous system. |
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2009 Graduates
Allison Greco
(above) studied the effects of hypoxic and hyperoxic stress on embryonic
chick cardiac myocyte metabolism.
Kimmie Patel worked on the effects of glucose on astrocyte metabolism and protein expression in vitro.
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
.
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.
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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-
Ponce
School of Medicine,
Puerto
Rico
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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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2005 Graduates
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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, 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.
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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
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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 school of Veterinary
Medicine at Cornell
University. |
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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" . |
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