2004/2005 Honors and Awards

New PhDs

• Debbie Backus - Advisor Michael Crutcher
• Kevin Erreger - Advisor Stephen Traynelis
• Daniel Mcclatchy - Advisor Allan Levey
• Marni Silverman - Advisor Andrew Miller
• Isadora Bielsky - Advisor Larry Young
• Joanna Bonsall - Advisor Marla Luskin
• Ricardo Caceda - Advisor Charles Nemeroff
• Liz Hammock - Advisor Larry Young
• Stan Nakanishi - Advisor Tim Cope
• Lisa Stanek - Advisors Mike Davis and Kerry Ressler
• Anne-Elise Tobin - Advisor Ron Calabrese
• Cary Zink - Advisor Greg Berns

National Awards:

• Miranda Lim
  2005 Donald Lindsley Award for Behavioral Neuroscience for the best thesis in general Behavioral Neuroscience submitted in the previous year - advisor Larry Young -
• Isadora Bielsky
  Won the second prize for her oral presentation of her work at "The World Congress on Neurohypophysins" Kyoto, Japan.
• Zoe Donaldson
  Invitation to the International Achievement Summit held by the Catherine Reynolds Foundation, Chicago, June 2004. 200 students invited from all fields of Graduate studies - Leaders of tomorrow to meet today's leaders
• Gus Davis
  PhRMA Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship - advisor Allan Levey.
• Todd Ahern
  Honorable Mention, NSF Graduate Research Fellowship competition - advisor Larry Young.
• John Pulliam
  FACES ­ Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering and Sciences predoctoral Fellowship - advisor Paul Plotsky.
• John Pulliam
  American Psychological Association Diversity Program pre-doctoral fellowship - advisor Paul Plotsky.
• Lizabeth Martin
  RIKEN Brain Institute Summer Lecture Series - advisor Charles Nemeroff.
• Jaime Hatcher
  Howard Hughes ORDER Teaching Fellowship - advisor Gary Miller.
• Lizabeth Martin
  Howard Hughes ORDER Teaching Fellowship - advisor Charles Nemeroff.
• Amanda Freeman
  International School of Biophysics - advisor David Rye.

NRSA Awards:

• Lisa Kreiner - advisor Amy Lee
• Jasmeer Chhatwal - advisor Kerry Ressler
• Kim Dougherty - advisor Shawn Hochman
• Jennifer Felger - advisor Andy Miller
• Dinesh Raju - advisor Yoland Smith
• Lisa Imboden - advisor Lian Li
• Jill Bordelon - advisor Chris Muly

Travel and other Awards :

DONALDSON, Zoe

• 2004: Gordon Conference on Genes and Behavior, Ventura, CA

HAMMOCK, Liz

• 2003: Young Investigator Award for the International Brain and Neural Genetics Society in November
• Fine Science Tools travel Award recipient
• 2004: First place poster award, "Life and Death in the Brain", Hunter College, CUNY.
• 2004: Travel Award (along with Miranda Lim) "Neural Control of Behavior" UCLA
• 2004: Selected (along with labmates Heather Ross, Zoe Donaldson, and Miranda Lim) to attend the Gordon Research conference on Genes and Behavior in February.

Katz, Elyse

• 2005: Organization for Human Brain Mapping Conference in Toronto, Canada

Kuwajima, Masa

• 2005: Atlanta Chapter of SFN/Eli Lilly Graduate Student Travel Award

LIM, Miranda

• 2004: Travel Award (along with Miranda Lim) "Neural Control of Behavior" UCLA
• 2004: Selected (along with labmates Heather Ross, Zoe Donaldson, and Miranda Lim) to attend the Gordon Research conference on Genes and Behavior in February

Martin, Lizabeth

• 2005: Univ. Wisconsin Health and Emotion Symposium

Paquet, Maryse

• 2005: Women in Neuroscience Travel Award
• 2005: Eli Lilly Travel Award
• 2005: Pfizer Student Travel Award

Institutional Awards:

• Charlene Cole - PRISM Fellowship
• Amanda Freeman - Dean's Teaching Fellowship 2005-2006 .
• Jaime Hatcher - Piedmont Project Fellowship on integrating environment and sustainability in Teaching.

Faculty Research Interests: Behavioral NS Computational NS Cellular, Molecular, & Developmental NS Neuropharmacology Neurological & Psychiatric Diseases Motor Control & Movement Science Systems NS

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