We also invite you to view the latest edition of the Central Sulcus, the Emory Neuroscience program newsletter, to catch up on important happenings in our program.

We would like to congratulate our recent granduates:

• JAIME M. HATCHER, Advisor: Gary Miller. Emory Medical School continuee. “Organochlorine Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease”
• CLIFFORD MICHAELS, Advisor: Steve Holtzman. Intellectual Property Associate, Office of Technology Transfer, Emory University. “Early Postnatal Stress and Measures of Reward”
• JOHN PULLIAM, Advisor: Paul Plotsky. Postdoctoral Fellow, Morehouse Medical School."The Role of Cocaine and Amphetamine Regulated Transcript Peptide (CARTp) in Social Stress Induced Anxiety-like Behavior "
• LEAH ANDERSON, Advisor: Allan Levey. Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Science Education, Office of Undergraduate Education, Emory University. "RNF11: A Candidate Gene from the PARK10 Locus"
• ALISA GUTMAN, Advisor: Mike Davis. Emory Med School continuee, "Neuropeptide Y and Cholecystokinin Modulation of the Expression and Extinction of Fear-Potentiated Startle"
• SETH JONES, Advisor: Kerry Ressler. Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern. "Mechanisms of Olfactory Fear Conditioning"
• BEVEN LIVINGSTON, Advisor: Richard Nichols. "Short-latency Proprioceptive Feedback and Motor Redundancy in the Motor Control of the Feline Forelimb"
• KATRIN OFFE, Advisor: Allan Levey. Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University. “The role of LR11 in Alzheimer's Disease”
• MIKE CAUDLE, Advisor: Gary Miller; Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle - "Reduced Vesicular Storage of Dopamine Causes Progressive Nigrostriatal Neurodegeneration"
• JENNIFER FELGER, Advisor: Andrew Miller. Postdoctoral Fellow, Rockefeller Univ. "Cytokine-Induced Behavioral Alterations: A Rhesus Monkey Model"
• ERIC BACKES, Advisor: Scott Hemby. Amgen, Regulatory Medical Writer. "Reciprocal Interactions between Cocaine and GABA in the VTA of Rats Self-administering Cocaine"
• JAMES OLZMANN, Advisor: Lian Li. Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University- "Pathogenic Mechanisms of DJ-1 in Parkinson's Disease"
• KAREN ROMMELFANGER, Advisor: David Weinshenker. Postdoctoral Fellow, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan "The Influence of Norepinephrine in a mouse model of Parkinson's Disease"
• NATHAN (CHRIS) ROWLAND, Advisor: Dieter Jaeger. Emory Medical School continuee. "'The Role of the Deep Cerebellar Nuclei in Cerebellar Coding of Sensory Input"
• JUAN RONG, Advisor: Xiao-Jiang Li. Postdoctoral Fellow The Burnham Institute. "Regulation of Intracellular Trafficking of Huntingtin-Associated Protein-1 (HAP1)"
• KIMBERLY J. DOUGHERTY, Advisor: Shawn Hochman. Postdoctoral Fellow, Karolinska Institute, Sweden. "Characterization of Spinal Lamina I GABAergic Neurons and their Plasticity in Spinal Cord Injury"
• DAVID W. MACHACEK, Advisor: Shawn Hochman. Research Scientist, Aruna Biomedical. “Monoaminergic Modulation of Select Spinal Reflex Pathways.”

We recently had an awards ceremony to recognize the achievements of our students in the 2006-2007 academic year. Click here to view the awards list.