National Awards

NRSA : Emory success rate 60% - National success rate 35%

• BIELSKY, Isadora
  "Vasopressin Receptors, social behaviors, and anxiety". Advisor: Larry Young
• BONSALL, Joanna
  "Neuronal Progenitor Migration in the Forebrain". Advisor: Marla Luskin
• DOUGHERTY, Kim
  "Plasticity of Spinal Inhibition in Spin al Cord Injury". Advisor: Shawn Hochmann
• FREEMAN, Amanda
  "Dopaminergic Mesothalamic System: Anatomy & Physiology". Advisor: David Rye
• HAMMOCK, Liz
  "V1aR gene structure, expression and social behavior". Advisor: Larry Young
• HASENKAMP, Wendy
  "Effects of Clozapine on Glutamate Transmission in Mesolimbic and Mesocortical Dopamine Neurons". Advisor: Scott Hemby
• LIM, Miranda
  "Neural Mechanisms Underlying Pair Bond Formation" Advisor: Larry Young
• McCLATCHY, Dan
  "Functional Analysis of M4 mAchR and EF1A2 Interaction". Advisor: Allan Levey
• NAKANISHI, Stan
  "The Role of Activity in IA-Motoneuron Synaptic Strength". Advisor: Tim Cope
• POISIK, Olga
  "Role of Metabotropic Glutamate Receptors" Advisor: Y. Smith/Jeff Conn
• ROWLAND, Chris
  "Characterization and modeling of DCN neuron responses" Advisor: Dieter Jaeger
• TOBIN, Anne-Elise
  "Neuromodulation of Rythmic Network: Electrophysiological and Modeling Studies". Advisor: Ron Calabrese.
• ZINK, Cary
  "Human Brain Responses to Unexpected Events". Advisor: Greg Berns.

Other National Awards

Howard Hughes Pre-Doctoral Fellowship

• ERREGER, Kevin
• DONALDSON, Zoe

• PULLIAM, John

Institutional Awards

Woodruff Fellowships

• HASENKAMP, Wendy - S. Hemby
• ERREGER, Kevin - S. Traynelis

• OLZZMAN, James

• EXCELLENCE in TEACHING from GDBBS 2000: Amanda Freeman
• PRISM: Leah Anderson - A. Levey
• PRISM: Bethany Brooks - D. Neill
• PRISM: Charlene Cole - L. Young
• PRISM: Wendy Hasenkamp - S. Hemby
• ORDERS: Lisa Rattiner - K. Ressler
• ORDERS: Dinesh Raju - Y. Smith

Special Courses

Woods Hole Summer Courses - Neural Systems and Behavior

• Anne-Elise Tobin
• Chris Rowland
• Liz Degoursac
• Zoe Donaldson

Travel Awards

FREEMAN, Amanda

• 2000: Sleep Trainee Workshop, The basic of Sleep Behaviours,
• 2001: World Federation of Sleep Research Societies
• 2002: Dopamine-Portland, OR.
• 2002: Sleep Trainee Workshop: Interactions between Sleep and Other Disciplines-Lake Arrowhead, CA
• 2003: The Paradox of Sleep: An unfinished Story, Lyon, FRANCE
• 2003: Sleep trainee workshop: The Evolution and Devolution of key concepts in sleep research, Lake Arrowhead, CA

DONALDSON, Zoe

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

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

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.

Honors

• 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 today¹s leaders.