2009/2010 Honors and Awards

Neuroscience Program Student of the Year:

VASILIKI MICHOPOULOS (Advisor Mark Wilson)

New PhDs

  • Rebecca Rosen - Advisor Lary Walker
  • Yair Gozal - Advisors Allan Levey and Jim Lah
  • Milos Cekic - Advisor Don Stein
  • John Rolston - Advisors Steve Potter and Robert Gross
  • Lindsey Fischer - Advisor Jonathan Glass
  • Nathan Schultheiss - Advisor Dieter Jaeger
  • Stephen C. Collins - Advisor Steve Warren
  • Nicola Hanson - Advisor Charles Nemeroff
  • Todd Ahern - Advisor Larry Young
  • Kevin Murnane - Advisor Leonard Howell
  • Kim Magushak - Advisor Kerry Ressler
  • Eric Heuer - Advisor Jocelyne Bachevalier

Predoctoral NRSA Awards:

  • Santiago Archila (NRSA) - Advisor Astrid Prinz
  • Jim Bogenpohl (NRSA) - Advisor Yoland Smith
  • Stacey Dutton (NRSA) - Advisor Andrew Escayg
  • Alisha Epps (NRSA) - Advisor David Weinshenker
  • Meriem Gaval (NRSA) - Advisor David Weinshenker
  • Kalynda Gonzales (NRSA) - Advisor Yoland Smith
  • Erin Hecht (NRSA) - Advisor Lisa Parr
  • Brittany Howell (NRSA) - Advisor Mar Sanchez
  • Michael Jutras (NRSA) - Advisor Elizabeth Buffalo
  • Sammy Lee (NRSA) - Advisor Lian Li
  • Amy Mahan (NRSA) - Advisor Kerry Ressler
  • Dan Manvich (NRSA) - Advisor Leonard Howell
  • Jeanne McKeon (NRSA) - Advisor Lian Li
  • Vasiliki Michopoulos (NRSA) - Advisor Mark Wilson
  • Anlys Olivera (NRSA) - Advisor Andy Miller
  • Stefanie Ritter (NRSA) - Advisor Randy Hall
  • Rebecca Roffman (NRSA) - Advisor Ron Calabrese
  • Nikki Sawyer (NRSA) - Advisor Andrew Escayg
  • Sharon Swanger (NRSA) - Advisor Gary Bassell

Other National Awards:

  • Katie Barrett - National Science Foundation (NSF) Award
  • Ming-Fai Fong - National Science Foundation (NSF) Award
  • Andrea Liatis - NIH R36 Grant
  • Stacey Dutton - Epilepsy Foundation
  • Alisha Epps - Epilepsy Foundation
  • Damon Lamb - Frankie R. Lillie Fellowship & Burrough Wellcome Fund
  • Osama Mohamad - American Heart Association
  • Sharon Swanger - Epilepsy Foundation

Travel and other Awards :

  • James Bogenpohl - Society for Neuroscience FENS Forum Travel Award
  • Debra Cooper - Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology MARC Travel Award
  • Debra Cooper - Dolores Shockley Best Abstract Award
  • Sarah Cork - Travel award to attend the NAVBO Vasculata Symposium, Cleveland, OH
  • Sarah Cork - WCI Symposium Award for Best Scientific Poster: Translational Research
  • David Ehrlich - Travel Award to 4th Annual "Amygdala, Stress, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" Conference at the Uniformed Services Univ., Washington D.C.
  • Alisha Epps - NIDA Travel Award, Jackson Labs 50th Annual Short Course on Medical and Experimental Mammalian Genetics
  • Meriem Gaval - Carl Storm Fellowship to attend the Catecholamines Gordon Research Conference
  • Meriem Gaval - Society for Neuroscience Fellow and Travel Award
  • Brittany Howell - NIMH Conference Series on Comparative and Primate Studies Fellow
  • Michael Kelly - Student Travel Award (Society Developmental Biology 69th Annual Meeting)
  • Eileen Kessler - Travel Award, Behavior, Biology and Chemistry: Translational Research in Addiction Conference
  • Daniel Manvich - NIDA Director's Travel Award to attend the College on Problems of Drug Dependence annual meeting, Reno, Nevada
  • Laura Mariani - NextBio Student Travel Grant
  • Kevin Murnane - Travel Award, First Annual Meeting of Biology, Behavior and Chemistry Conference
  • Kevin Murnane - Travel Award, Annual Meeting of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Teaching Fellowships:

  • Amy Anderson - PRISM Fellowship
  • Santiago Archila - PRISM Fellowship
  • Todd Ahern - Dean's Teaching Fellowship
  • Kate O'Toole - PRISM Fellowship
  • Alexander Poplawsky - PRISM Fellowship and HHMI Curriculum Fellowship
  • Jacob Shreckengost - SIRE Fellowship and ORDER Fellowship
  • Laura Mariani - ORDER Fellowship
  • Meriem Gaval - FACES Fellowship
  • Anlys Olivera - FACES Fellowship

NIH Training Grant 2009-2010 Trainees:

  • Katie Barrett - Advisor Larry Young
  • Lani King - Advisor Larry Young
  • Laura Mariani - Advisor Tamara Caspary
  • Callie McGrath - Advisor Helen Mayberg
  • Karen Murray - Advisor Mike Owens
  • Katy Shepard - Advisor Robert Liu

NIH Training Grant 2010-2011 Trainees:

  • Mallory Bowers - Advisor Kerry Ressler
  • Todd Deveau - Advisors Ling Wei and Shan Ping Yu
  • Sarah DeWitt - Advisor Don Rainnie
  • Zack Johnson - Advisor Larry Young
  • Joe Mertz - Advisor Junmin Peng
  • Donald Nobel - Advisors Thad Pace and Shawn Hochman

Other Honors :

  • Debra Cooper - ARCS Fellowship
  • Terrence Wright - ARCS Fellowship
  • Andrew Brooks - SPINR Fellowship
  • Ming-Fai Fong - SPINR Fellowship
  • Brittany Howell - NIMH Early Experience, Stress, and Neurobehavioral Development (EESND) Center Trainee

2010 Research Symposium and Awards Banquet :

  • 8th Annual GDBBS Symposium Winners:
    • Platform Talk, First Place - Michael Kelly
    • Poster, Second Place - Eileen Sawyer
    • Poster, Third Place - Debra Cooper
  • Mentors of the Year:
    • Gary Miller
    • David Weinshenker
  • Community Service Awards:
    • Career Development Committee (CDC) - Meagan Jenkins
    • GDBBS Involved in Volunteerism at Emory (GIVE):
      • Meriem Gaval Cruz
      • Alisha Epps

Popular Links and Destinations
Ready To Get Started?
If you are ready to get started with Emory's Neuroscience Graduate program, click here to apply now!
S. Sanyal Lab - Confocal image of adult Drosophila brain
S. Sanyal Lab - Confocal image of adult Drosophila brain (Green (FasII) - marks the mushroom bodies; Red (Elav) - all neuronal nuclei)
G. Bassell Lab - 3D Reconstruction of a hippocampal Fmr1 KO neuron
G. Bassell Lab - 3D Reconstruction of a hippocampal Fmr1 KO neuron transfected with GFP-LifeAct, an actin-binding protein suitable for visualizing dendrites and spines
L. Young Lab - Monogamous prairie vole family
L. Young Lab - Monogamous prairie vole family
VIEW ALL RESEARCH
Want to see more research?
Click here to go inside Emory's Neuroscience Graduate Program labs and get an up close look at the latest in Emory innovation.