Jeffrey Tenney
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2006
Hometown: Taunton, MA
College: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Worcester, MA)
Research Topic: Functional MRI of Rat and Monkey Models of Absence Epilepsy
Thesis Advisor: Craig Ferris, PhD
Publications:
"Imaging cocaine induced changes in the mesocorticolimbic dopaminergic system of conscious rats.","fMRI of generalized absence status epilepticus in conscious marmoset monkeys reveals corticothalamic activation.","fMRI of brain activation in a genetic rat model of absence seizures.","Neural substrates underlying impulsivity.","fMRI of drug-induced and spontaneous absence epilepsy in awake rats.","Corticothalamic modulation during absence seizures: A functional MRI assessment."
E-mail: jeffrey.tenney@umassmed.edu

Kenneth Bishop
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2008
Hometown: Concord, MA
College: Gordon College (Wenham, MA)
Research Topic: Clonal anergy in CD4+ T lymphocytes
Thesis Advisor: Michael Czech, PhD, Aldo Rossini, MD
Publications: "Early growth response gene-2, a zinc-finger transcription factor, is required for full induction of clonal anergy in CD4+ T cells."
E-mail: Kenneth.bishop@umassmed.edu

David Brown

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2008

Hometown: Wells, ME

College: Gordon College (Wenham, MA)

Research Topic: CTLA-4-Mediated Maintenance of Peripheral T Cell Tolerance

Thesis Advisor: Cynthia Chambers, PhD & Joonsoo Kang, PhD

E-mail: david.brown2@umassmed.edu

Jennifer Foulkes
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2008
Hometown: Worcester,MA
College: Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Research Topic: Structural Determinants of Drug Resistance in HIV
Protease
Thesis Advisor: Celia Schiffer, PhD
E-mail: jennifer.foulkes@umassmed.edu

Kenneth Sicard

Anticipated graduation year: 2008
College: Stonehill College (Easton, MA)
Research Topic: Application of functional, diffusion, and perfusion magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to evaluate tissue integrity and function following ischemic stroke
Thesis Advisor: Craig Ferris, PhD (in collaboration with Marc Fisher, MD)
Publications: "A Genetic Mosaic in the Fruiting Stage of Armillaria gallica" "Fungal Get-together" "Writing in the Sciences. The Hartcourt Brace Guide to Documentation and Writing in the Disciplines" "Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and BOLD Responses in Conscious and Anesthetized Rats Under Basal and Hypercapnic Conditions: Implications for Functional MRI Studies" "Imaging Oxygen Consumption in Forepaw Somatosensory Stimulation in Rats Under Isoflurane Anesthesia" "Effects of Hypoxia, Hyperoxia and Hypercapnia on Baseline and Stimulus-Evoked BOLD, CBF and CMRO2 in Spontaneously Breathing Animals" "Impaired Spatial Learning in a Novel Rat Model of Mild Cerebral Concussion Injury" "The Proteasome Inhibitor VELCADE® Reduces Infarction in Rat Models of Focal Cerebral Ischemia" "Comparison of ischemic lesion evolution in embolic vs. mechanical middle cerebral artery occlusion in sprague dawley rats using diffusion and perfusion imaging"
Email: kenneth.sicard@umassmed.edu

Thomas Wadzinski
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2008
Hometown: Arlington, MA
College: Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
Research Topic: Spindle assembly checkpoint
Thesis Advisor: Stephen Doxsey PhD
E-mail: Thomas.Wadzinski@umassmed.edu

Ania Busza

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2009

Hometown: Weston, MA

College: MIT (Cambridge, MA)

Research Topic: How do daily changes in light and temperature synchronize the Drosophila circadian clock?

Thesis Advisor: Patrick Emery PhD

Publications: "Roles of the Two Drosophila CRYPTOCHROME Structural Domains in Circadian Photoreception"

E-mail: ania.busza@umassmed.edu

Gayle Pageau

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2009
Hometown: Northboro, MA
College: Colby College (2002) (Waterville, ME)
Research Topic: BRCA1 and Its relationship to Chromatin
Thesis Advisor: Jeanne B. Lawrence, PhD (Cell Biology)
E-mail: gayle.pageau@umassmed.edu

Eugene Tikh

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2009

Hometown: Newton, MA

College: University of Massachusetts Lowell (Lowell, MA)

Research Topic: Adenosinergic signaling and transduction in the heart

Thesis Advisor: James G. Dobson, Jr. PhD

Publications: "Contractile effects of adenosine A1 and A2A receptors in murine hearts"

E-mail: eugene.tikh@umassmed.edu

Shira Hannah Fischer

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010
Hometown: Brookline, MA
College: Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Undecided

E-mail: Shira.Fischer@umassmed.edu

Charlotte M. Harwood

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010

Hometown: Harwich, MA

College: Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY)

Research Topic: Flt-1 Function in Breast Cancer Progression

Thesis Advisor: Arthur Mercurio, PhD

Publications: "Rolling Adhesion through an Extended Conformation of Integrin alpha-L beta-2 and Relation to alpha I and beta I-like Domain Interaction."

E-mail: charlotte.harwood@umassmed.edu

Michael Horwich
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010
Hometown: Weston, CT
College: Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)
Research Topic: Regulation of Gene Expression By miRNAs
Thesis Advisor: Phillip Zamore, PhD
E-mail: michael.horwich@umassmed.edu
 

Walter Kim
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010
Hometown: Belmont, MA
College: Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Research Topic: Nef-mediated augmentation of T-cell signaling
Thesis Advisor: Lawrence J. Stern, PhD
Publications: "High-throughput screening for soluble recombinant expressed kinases in Escherichia coli and insect cells. "
E-mail: Walter.Kim@umassmed.edu

David Miller
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010
Hometown: Sturbridge, MA
College: Boston College (Boston, MA)
Research Topic: Mesenchymal Stem Cells as Cellular Therapy for Liver Disease
Thesis Advisor: Aldo Rossini MD
Publications: "Identification and Activity of a Lower Eukaryotic Serpin from Cyanea Capillata: Analysis of a jellyfish serpin, Jellypin." "The serpin SQN-5 is a dual mechanistic-class inhibitor of serine and cysteine proteinases."
E-mail: david.miller@umassmed.edu

Zachary Davis Nightingale
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010
Hometown: Reading, MA
College: Colby College, Waterville, ME
Research Topic: The effects of dengue virus on human dendritic cell immunomodulatory function
Thesis Advisor: Alan Rothman, MD
E-mail: zachary.nightingale@umassmed.edu

Brian Skehan

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2010

Hometown: Westfield, MA

College: Sacred Heart University

Research Topic: Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Secreted Virulence Factors

Thesis Advisor: John Leong MD/PhD

E-mail: brian.skehan@umassmed.edu

Cristina Cellurale
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Belmont, MA
College: Bates College
Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Roger Davis
Email: cristina.cellurale@umassmed.edu

Caroline Connor

Kathleen Cullion
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Cumberland, RI
College: Assumption College (Worcester, MA)
Research Interest: Hematology/ Immunology
Email: Kathleen.Cullion@umassmed.edu

Marie King
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Spencer, MA
College: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Research Topic: Development of a humanized mouse model to study autoimmune Diabetes Mellitus
Thesis Advisor: Aldo Rossini, MD
Publications: "Human lymphoid and myeloid cell development in NOD/LtSz-scid IL2R gamma null mice engrafted with mobilized human hemopoietic stem cells"
E-mail: marie.king@umassmed.edu

Annie Kruger
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Ruston, LA
College: Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)
Graduate School: Harvard School of Public Health (Boston, MA)
Research Topic: Role of insulin misfolding in autoimmune diabetes (type 1 diabetes)
Thesis Advisor: Aldo Rossini, MD
E-mail: annie.kruger@umassmed.edu

Connie Lee
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Randolph, MA
College: Tufts University (Medford, MA)
Research Topic: Survivin in development
Thesis Advisor: Dario Altieri, MD
E-mail: connie.lee@umassmed.edu

Bharath Nath
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Andover, MA
College: University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Research Topic: Notch signaling pathway in Colon Cancer
Thesis Advisor: Steven Grossman MD PhD
Publications: "Hepatic tissue engineering for adjunct and temporary liver support: critical technologies." "Growth factors and nonparenchymal cell conditioned media induce mitogenic responses in stable long-term adult rat hepatocyte cultures." "Desiccation tolerance of spermatozoa dried at ambient temperature: production of fetal mice." "Oxygen consumption characteristics of porcine hepatocytes."
E-mail: bharath.nath@umassmed.edu

Keith Romano

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Sturbridge, MA
College: Colby College (Waterville, ME)

Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Adviser: Undecided
E-mail: keith.romano@umassmed.edu

Michael Straza

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2011
Hometown: Chicago, IL
College: University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
Research Topic: Cancer biology, Structural biology
Thesis Advisor: Undecided

E-mail: michael.straza@umassmed.edu

Julia Ciampa

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2012
Home: Saugus, Ma
College: Harvard College (Cambridge, MA)
Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Undecided
Publications: "Medical findings in outpatients with
anorexia nervosa." "Preservation of neuroendocrine control of reproductive function despite severe undernutrition."

E-mail: julia.ciampa@umassmed.edu

Sushrut Jangi

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2012

Hometown: Ashland, MA

College: Brandeis University (Waltham, MA)

Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Undecided

E-mail: Sushrut.Jangi@umassmed.edu

Joanna Chaurette

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2013
Hometown: Overland Park, KS
College: University of Massachusetts-Boston
Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Undecided

Publications: "Induction of host matrix metalloproteinases by Borrelia burgdorferi differs in human and murine lyme arthritis.", "Phospholipid synthesis in Borrelia burgdorferi: BB0249 and BB0721 encode functional phosphatidylcholine synthase and phosphatidylglycerolphosphate synthase proteins.", "Analysis of differences in the functional properties of the substrate binding proteins of the Borrelia burgdorferi oligopeptide permease (Opp) operon."
E-mail: joanna.chaurette@umassmed.edu
 

Thomas Flood

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2014

Hometown: Lowell, MA

College: Boston College (Chestnut Hill, MA)

Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Undecided

Publications: "Medial preoptic area interactions with the nucleus accumbens-ventral pallidum circuit and maternal behavior in rats."

E-mail: thomas.flood@umassmed.edu

Kimberly LeBlanc
Anticipated Graduation Year: 2013
Hometown: Webster, MA
College: Clark University (Worcester, MA)
Research Topic: Undecided
Thesis Advisor: Undecided
E-mail: kimberly.leblanc@umassmed.edu

Elizabeth Yu

Anticipated Graduation Year: 2013

Hometown: Cupertino, CA

College: Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)

Research Topic: Undecided

Thesis Advisor: Undecided

Publications: "Correlation of Protein and Gene Expression Profiles in a Rat Heart Transplant Model of Acute Cellular Rejection"

E-mail: elizabeth.yu@umassmed.edu

Other Students:

James Young