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2004 Fellowships
Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grants
Grass Fellows
MBL Summer Research Fellows
Dart Fellowships in Learning and Memory
2004 Albert and Ellen Grass Faculty Grant Program
Nine investigators have been awarded Grass Faculty Awards at the MBL this summer. The goal of this program is to take advantage of the collaborative environment of the MBL and bring together neuroscientists at the assistant or associate professor level from different institutions to work together to conduct specific research.
in neuroscience.
Helmut J. Koester, Ph.D., an instructor in the Division of Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, and Jackie Schiller, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Technion Medical School, Haifa, Israel, collaborated on a project titled “Active dendritic integration in cortical sensory processing in vivo.”
Jasmina N. Jovanovic, Ph.D., a lecturer and group leader in the Department of Pharmacology, The School of Pharmacy at the University of London, London, UK, and Sabine Hilfiker, Ph.D., a Ramon y Cajal Fellow and group leader at the Instituto de Parasitologia y Biomedicina ‘Lopez-Neyra,’ Granada, Spain, collaborated on a project titled “Dissecting the roles of protein phosphorylation in vesicle trafficking and secretion.”
Stefan Heller, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor in the Department of Otology and Laryngology at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Huawei Li, Ph.D., a Professor in the Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; and Jeffrey Corwin, Ph.D., a Professor in the Departments of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, collaborated on a project titled “Quiescent stem cells in the mouse utricle.”
William N. Green, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology at the University of Chicago, Illinois, and John Marshall, Ph.D., an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology at Brown University, Providence, RI, returned to the MBL this summer to continue their collaborative project titled “Targeting and trafficking of glutamate receptors by PDZ domain proteins.”
Eleven 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.
Rachel Mary Berquist, Ph.D.,
University of Minnesota, Duluth
“Response dynamics of saccular afferent fibers in free-swimming toadfish, Opsanus tau”
Manuel Estrada, Ph.D.,
Yale University School of Medicine
“Effects of steroid hormones on intracellular Ca2+ signaling in a neuronal
cell line”
Michael A. Farries,
University of Washington Medical Center
“Long-term synaptic plasticity in nucleus RA of the zebra finch: a possible substrate for song learning”
Robert Crooks Froemke,
University of California, Berkeley
“The cellular mechanisms and synaptic organization of neocortical receptive fields”
Eric Briant Gonzales,
University of North Texas Health Science Center
“Kinetic determinants of the second transmembrane domain 7’ position in the glycine alpha1 receptor”
Emma Heart, Ph.D.,
Evans Biomedical Research Center
“NAD(P)H oscillations in pancreatic islet cells and their modulations by metabolic and electric stimuli”
Leib Litman,
Brooklyn College
“In search of a model organism for complex forms of implicit learning: Exploring crypsis and the serial reaction time task in cuttlefish”
Mark H. Shalinsky, Ph.D.,
Dartmouth College
“An electrophysiological study of the lung rhythm in the bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana, as an evolutionary precursor to gasping in mammals”
James Jiayuan Tong, Ph.D.,
University of California, Irvine
“Mitochondria dynamics in synaptic plasticity and learning”
Yumiko Umino, Ph.D.,
SUNY Upstate Medical University
“Processing of visual information of Limulus brain”
Tamily A. Weissman
Columbia University
“The Alzheimer’s disease pathway meets neural development: Does presenilin process the reelin receptor and regulate neuronal migration?”
2004 MBL Summer Research Fellows
Eleven scientists have received fellowships totaling $160,000 to conduct research at the MBL this summer.
Jan Ellenberg, Ph.D.,
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
“Meiotic chromosome dynamics in echinoderms”
Dr. Ellenberg is supported by the Evelyn and Melvin Spiegel, Frederik B. Bang, Lucy B. Lemann, Robert Day Allen, and Herbert W. Rand Fellowships.
Simone Engelender, M.D., Ph.D.,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
“Study of synphilin-1 function and its contribution to Parkinson’s disease”
Dr. Engelender is supported by a Gruss Lipper Family Foundation Fellowship.
John H. Henson, Ph.D.,
Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
“Cytoskeletal mechanisms underlying retrograde flow and spindle assembly in sea urchin cells”
Dr. Henson is supported by an MBL Associates Fellowship.
Eileen M. Lafer, Ph.D.,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
“Basic mechanisms underlying neurotransmission”
Dr. Lafer is supported by the Herbert W. Rand, H. Burr and Susie Steinbach, James A. and Faith Miller, Erik B. Fries, Charles R. Crane, Ann E. Kammer Memorial, and Plum Foundation John E. Dowling Fellowships.
Matthew E. Larkum, Ph.D.,
University of Bern, Switzerland
“Characterization of the active dendritic properties of the pyramidal cells of turtle cortex – Part 2”
Dr. Larkum is supported by a Nikon Fellowship.
Alex Levine, Ph.D.,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
“The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and nitric oxide (NO) in zebrafish mating”
Dr. Levine is supported by a Gruss Lipper Family Foundation Fellowship.
Donald L. Lovett, Ph.D.,
The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
“Physiological significance of methyl farnesoate in osmoregulation by crabs”
Dr. Lovett is supported by the John O. Crane and Baxter Postdoctoral Fellowship Funds.
Eduardo A. Perozo, Ph.D.,
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA
“Identification and characterization of novel ion channels from marine prokaryotes”
Dr. Perozo is supported by the MBL Associates, Stephen W. Kuffler, Frank R. Lillie, and M. G. F. Fuortes Fellowship funds.
Ehud Razin, Ph.D.,
The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
“Lysyl tRNA synthase and Ap4A: New roles in the regulation of the activity of transcription factors”
Dr. Razin is supported by a Gruss Lipper Family Foundation Fellowship.
Charles B. Shuster, Ph.D.,
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
“Spatio-temporal regulation of cytokinesis in echinoderm embryos”
Dr. Shuster is supported by the Laura and
Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship Fund.
Herman Wolosker, M.D., Ph.D.,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
“Role of endogenous D-serine in the brain”
Dr. Wolosker is supported by a Gruss Lipper Family Foundation Fellowship.
Ehud Razin, Ph.D.,
The Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
“Lysyl tRNA synthase and Ap4A: New roles in the regulation of the activity of transcription factors”
Dr. Razin is supported by a Gruss Lipper Family Foundation Fellowship.
Charles B. Shuster, Ph.D.,
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
“Spatio-temporal regulation of cytokinesis in echinoderm embryos”
Dr. Shuster is supported by the Laura and
Arthur Colwin Endowed Summer Research Fellowship Fund.
Herman Wolosker, M.D., Ph.D.,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
“Role of endogenous D-serine in the brain”
Dr. Wolosker is supported by a Gruss Lipper Family Foundation Fellowship.
2004 Dart Fellowships in Learning and Memory
Three Dart Fellowships in Learning and Memory have been awarded this summer. Sponsored by a generous grant from the Dart Foundation, these fellowships bring top scientists in the field of learning and memory together to conduct research at the MBL for the summer.
Daniel Johnston, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Division of Neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX. His research project is titled “Calcium imaging in hippocampal neurons.”
Jeff W. Lichtman, M.D., Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. His research project is titled “Axonal arbor morphology and plasticity in the developing brain.”
Mark F. Yeckel, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT. The title of his research project is “Endoplasmic reticulum as a sensor for neuronal activity.”
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