2008
Helder Araujo
Lab: Antonio Damasio
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Email: |helderpe
gmail dot com|
Megan Arnett
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neu dot edu|
Christi Evans
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Interests: My research interests include anything relating to neurodegeneration and disease. I am specifically interested in studying either Alzheimer's or Parkinson's Disease. Other interests include anything outdoors, including skiing, snowboarding, hiking, and swimming in the ocean. I am also becoming addicted to racquetball, yoga, and Dance Dance Revolution.
Previous Rotations: Christian Pike
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Email: |evansca
usc dot edu|
Michele Frendo
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Shuyang Huang
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Email: |sychic
gmail dot com|
Kingson Man
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Leena Ali Marosh
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Rachel Millin
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Chenjie Pan
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Daniel Parks
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Angila Sewal
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hotmail dot com|
John Shen
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Email: |shenjohn
usc dot edu|
Feng Wang
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Email: |wangngu
gmail dot com|
Aaron Warren
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Email: |acolonyofrabbits
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Xiaorui Xiong
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Interests: sensory processing, plasticity, cognitive neuroscience
Previous Rotations: Antoine Bechara
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Email: |xiongx
usc dot edu|
Sohila Zadran
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usc dot edu|
Yukai Zhao
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Email: |zhaoyukai1986
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2007
Glenn Fox
Lab: Antonio Damasio
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Previous Rotations: Bosco Tjan
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Email: |glennfox
usc dot edu|
David Herman
Lab: Tansu Ceilkel
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Previous Rotations: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Sarah Bottjer
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Email: |dh.herman
gmail dot com|
Chao Huang
Lab: Tansu Ceilkel
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Email: |chaohuan
usc dot edu|
Yerina Ji
Lab: Brinton
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Email: |yerinaji
usc dot edu|
Anna Kamitakahara
Lab: Richard Simerly
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Email: |kamitaka
usc dot edu|
Vilay Khandelwal
Lab: Judith Hirsch
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Email: |vkhandel
usc dot edu|
Jennifer McGrady
Lab: Sarah Bottjer
Interests:I am interested in learning and memory at the systems level and how complex learned behavior is represented in the brain.
Previous Rotations: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh, Derek Seiburth, Tansu Celikel
Web: http://bottjerlab.usc.edu/labmembers/jenny_profile.html
Email: |mcgrady
usc dot edu|
Breyda Ortega
Lab: Petzinger
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Email: |bortega
usc dot edu|
Raina Pang
Lab: Daniel Holschneider
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Email: |rpang
usc dot edu|
Bella Rozenkrants
Lab: Laurent Itti
Interests: research--visual attention and its correlates in language production, personal--gardening, white water rafting, teaching children to read, chocolate, bounce houses in the shape of the brain, pocket protectors in the shape of the brain, anything in the shape of a brain
Previous Rotations: Dr. Laura Baker
Web:
Email: |rozenkra
usc dot edu|
Mona Sobhani
Lab: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
Interests: The study of social cognitive neuroscience through fMRI, specifically psychopathy, empathy, and the mirror neuron system.
Previous Rotations: Laura Baker, Hannah Damasio
Web: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~sliew/
Email: |mssobhani
gmail dot com|
Letisha Wyatt
Lab: Robert Alkana
Interests: friends, food, fun,...and sleeping:)
Previous Rotations: Ruth Wood, Laura Baker
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Email: |lwyatt
usc dot edu|
Eric Xu
Lab: Antoine Bechara
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Email: |exu
usc dot edu|
Erin Zomber
Lab: Frank Manis
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Email: |erinzomber
hotmail dot com|
Elizabeth Zuniga
Lab: Crump
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Email: |elizabez
usc dot edu|
2006
Farhan Baluch
Lab: Laurent Itti
Interests: Visual attention, neural correlates of expertise acquisition, insect-robotics
Previous Rotations: Antonio Damasio, Antoine Bechara
Web: www-scf.usc.edu/~fbaluch
Email: |fbaluch
usc dot edu|
Pinglei Bao
Lab: Bosco Tjan
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Email: |pbao
usc dot eedu|
Rui Chang
Lab: Emily Liman
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Email: |ruichang
usc dot edu|
Suet Yin Christin Chong
Lab: Jonah Chan
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Email: |christinchong
gmail dot com|
Benjamin Files
Lab: Lynne Bernstein
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Email: |bfiles
usc dot edu|
Daniel Gibson
Lab: Li Ma
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Email: |dgibson
usc dot edu|
Rishabh Jain
Lab: Bartlett Mel
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Previous Rotations: Bosco Tjan
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Email: |rishabh
usc dot edu|
Wendy Knowlton
Lab: David Mckemy
Interests: I am interested in figuring out how the somatosensory system is wired into the central nervous system, specifically how TRPM8-expressing cold-sensing neurons connect to spinal cord neurons. I'm looking at whether there are multiple cold circuits and, if so, how neurons identify their proper synaptic partners. I would also like to know if these connections change during pathologic states.
Previous Rotations: Christian Pike
Web:
Email: |wknowlto
usc dot edu|
Hormoz Moaven
Lab: Jeannie Chen
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Email: |hmoaven
gmail dot com|
Sum-Yan Ng
Lab: Neil Segil
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Email: |ngsumyan
gmail dot com|
Cornelius Raths
Lab: Francisco Valero-Cuevas
Interests: I have been studying stable three-finger grasp in humans, using methods from Nonlinear Dynamics and Time Series analysis. My goal is to determine the individual roles of passive musculosceletal properties, the spinal cord and cortical networks in maintaining grasp stability, completely noninvasively.
Previous Rotations: Theodore W. Berger, Gerald E. Loeb, Armand Tanguay
Web: http://bme.usc.edu/enh/Cornelius.html
Email: |raths
usc dot edu|
Tong Sheng
Lab: Lisa Aziz-Zadeh
Interests:Emotion, cognition, action, cognitive control, consciousness.
Previous Rotations: Nicholas Schweighofer
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Email: |tsheng75
gmail dot com|
Chanpreet Singh
Lab: Richard Thompson
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Email: |csingh
usc dot edu|
Chien-Hua Wang
Lab: Richard Simerly
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Email: |wangchie
usc dot edu|
Xiaofei Yang
Lab: Antonio Damasio
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Previous Rotations: Frank Manis
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Email: |xiaofei312
gmail dot com|
Jingyang Zhong
Lab: Wange Lu
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Email: |zhongjingyang5
hotmail dot com|
2005
Claudia Aguirre
Lab: Michel Baudry
Interests: Learning and memory as it relates to neurodegenerative disorders and brain plasticity.
Previous Rotations: Christian Pike
Web:
Email: |ccaguirr
email dot usc dot edu|
Arvin (Cyrus) Arman
Lab: Alapakkam P. Sampath
Interests: I am interested in how the nervous system gives rise to the visual experience. My previous work focused on understanding how the human visual cortex is organized and how attention can alter the neurological response to stimuli using a combination of functional magnetic resonance imaging and visual psychophysics. I currently study the mammalian retina using both anatomical and physiological methods to determine the functional organization of the pathways in the retina which are responsible for relaying signals under extremely dim lighting conditions.
Previous Rotations: Judith Hirsch, Bosco Tjan
Web: http://www-scf.usc.edu/~aarman/
Email: |aarman
usc dot edu|
David Berg
Lab: Laurent Itti
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Email: |dberg
usc dot edu|
Kathleen Garrison
Lab: Carolee J. Winstein
Interests: brain imaging, mirror neurons, neuroplasticity, stroke recovery
Previous Rotations:
Web: link to lab website
Email: |kathleenalice
gmail dot com|
Anusha Jayaraman
Lab: Christian Pike
Interests:Estrogen receptors, APP processing and their relevance to Alheimer's disease.
Previous Rotations: Jean Shih, Chien-Ping Ko
Web:
Email: |ajayaram
usc dot edu|
Kelly Kent
Lab: Thomas McNeill
Interests:Neural plasticity post cortical lesion.
Previous Rotations: David McKemy, Jean Shih, Sarah Bottjer
Web:
Email: |kellyakent
gmail dot com|
Soyun Kim
Lab: Richard Thompson
Interests:Molecular Studies of Learning & Memory.
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Email: |soyunkim
usc dot edu|
Youngkyoung Kim
Lab:Richard Thompson
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Email: |youngkki
usc dot edu|
Mark Lescroart
Lab: Irving Biederman
Interests: I'm currently using psychophysics and fMRI to investigate shape recognition in the anterior areas (V4,LO,pFs) of visual cortex.
Previous Rotations:
Web:http://geon.usc.edu/~mark
Email: |lescroar
usc dot edu|
Kar Yun (Karen) Ling
Lab: Chien-Ping Ko
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Email: |karling
usc dot edu|
Wen Mao
Lab: Jeannie Chen
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usc dot edu|
Meghen Miles
Lab: Antonio Damasio
Interests: The neurobiology of emotion as induced by music. I listen to a lot of really cool music (and so can you, if you want to be a subject for me). :)
Previous Rotations: Laura Baker
Web:
Email: |meghen
usc dot edu|
Sheila Rosenberg
Lab: Jonah Chan
Interests: Axonal Regulation of Oligodendrocyte Myelination
Previous Rotations: Christian Pike
Web:
Email: |srosenbe
usc dot edu|
Yoshio Takashima
Lab: David Mckemy
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Email: |takashim
usc dot edu|
Marta Vukovic
Lab: Michael Jakowec
Interests: I am currently working on a mouse model of Parkinson's Disease. In the lab we are investigating the effect of intensive physical exercise on the treatment of the disease.
Previous Rotations: Roberta Brinton; Richard Simerly
Web:
Email: |mvuckovi
usc dot edu|
Jason Junge
Lab: Don Arnold
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Email: |junge
usc dot edu|
2004
Eleni Antzoulatos
Lab: Ruth Wood
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Email: |antzoula
usc dot edu|
James Bonaiuto
Lab: Michael Arbib
Interests: Computational modeling of flexible, hierarchical action recognition and production in imitation and language, modeling of the macaque mirror system, neuroinformatics for evalutating brain region homologies across species.
Previous Rotations: Laurent Itti, Bosco Tjan
Web:
Email: |bonaiuto
usc dot edu|
Jenna Carroll
Lab: Christian Pike
Interests: Neuroprotective effects of estrogen and progesterone using a rodent model of aging and a triple transgenic mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.
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Email: |jccarrol
usc dot edu|
Meng-Hsiu(Maggie) Chou
Lab: Michel Baudry
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Email: |menghsic
usc dot edu|
Richard (Luke) Daniels
Lab: David McKemy
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1) A better understanding of temperature and pain detection, with the goal of creating novel pharmaceuticals to directly target the molecular substrates of pain sensation.
2) Application of sensory transducing molecules and their regulatory components in engineered systems (lab-on-a-chip sort of things).
3) Applications of cell membrane proteins in other fields such as water purification systems, bioremediation and alternative energy production using selective transporters of water and metal ions.
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Email: |rldaniel
usc dot edu|
Ginger (Virginia) Hazen
Lab: Samantha Butler
Interests: My research focuses on understanding the second messenger system for Bone Morphogenetic Protein (BMP) mediated axon guidance.
Previous Rotations: Sarah Bottjer, Robert Maxson
Web:
Email: |hazen
usc dot edu|
Alan Horsager
Lab: Alapakkam P. Sampath
Interests: We are currently working in collaboration with the Doheny Retina Institute & Second Sight Medical Products to create a retinal prosthetic for visually blind patients. The focus of my research involves investigating the relationship between different electrical stimulation input patterns and visual perception through psychophysical and mathematical modeling techniques
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Email: |horsager
usc dot edu|
Li Peng
Lab: Henry M. Sucov
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Email: |pengli
usc dot edu|
Ming-Yi (Sonia) Lin
Lab: Chien-Ping Ko
Interests:To study the effect of enhancing muscle mass on the disease model of ALS
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Email: |mingyili
usc dot edu|
Jiajuan Liu
Lab: Zhong-Lin Lu
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Email: |jiajuanl
usc dot edu|
Lifei Liu
Lab: Roberta Brinton
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Previous Rotations: Emily Liman
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Email: |lifeiliu
usc dot edu|
Jason Pong
Lab: Theodore Berger
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Email: |jason.pong
usc dot edu|
Vishal Vaingankar
Lab: Judith Hirsch
Interests:Single cell Electrophysiology and Computational modeling of processes in the Laterla Geniculate Nucleus of thalamus.
Previous Rotations: Laurent Itti, Ione Fine
Web:
Email: |vaingank
usc dot edu|
Feng Qi
Lab: Nicholas Schweighofer
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Email: |fqi
usc dot edu|
Ying Wang
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Email: |yingw17
usc dot edu|
Yuangyuan Wang
Lab: Emily Liman
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Email: |yuanyuaw
usc dot edu|
Guangying Wu
Lab: Li Zhang
Interests: Auditory Electrophysiology
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Email: |gwu
illinoisalumni dot org|
Xundong Wu
Lab: Bartlett Mel
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Web: http://lnc.usc.edu/xundong
Email: |xundongw
usc dot edu|
Lin Xiao
Lab: Antoine Bechara
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Email: |linxiao
usc dot edu|
Jing Xu
Lab: Hinton/Chen
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Email: |jingx
usc dot edu|
JingYing Xu
Lab: C. Patrick Reynolds
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Email: |jingyingx
usc dot edu|
Liya Xu
Lab: Ronald Alkana
Interests: ETOH effects on human peptide transporter.
Previous Rotations: David McKemy
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Email: |liyaxu
usc dot edu|
Ken Yamauchi
Lab: Samantha Butler
Interests: BMP mediated axon guidance.
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Web: http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~butlersj/pages/people.html
Email: |kyamauch
usc dot edu|
Allison Zumberge
Lab: Frank Manis
Interests: We use a brain imaging technique, fMRI, to characterize the role of regions such as the occipitotemporal "visual word form area" in the task of reading different types of words. Our current study focuses on skilled adult readers, but we plan to extend the project to study developmental dyslexia.
Previous Rotations: Laura Baker
Web:
Email: |zumberge
gmail dot com|
2003
Aaron Clausen
Lab: Michel Baudry
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Email: |aclausen
usc dot edu|
Kenneth Hayworth
Lab: Irving Biederman
Interests: I am researching the neural representation underlying visual shape perception through fMRI studies on human subjects. I am also developing an automatic tape-collecting lathe ultramicrotome (ATLUM) to enable large volumes of neural tissue to be imaged at a resolution of a few nanometers thus allowing whole neural circuits to be traced.
Previous Rotations:
Web: http://geon.usc.edu/~ken
Email: |khaywort
usc dot edu|
Mimi Lee
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Email: |mimilee
usc dot edu|
Rudy Mora
Lab: Don Arnold
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Email: |rudymora
usc dot edu|
Christina Neuner
Lab: Alan Watts
Interests: I'm currently using a model of anorexia to investigate how the nucleus accumbens interacts with the hypothalamus to influence feeding behavior.
Previous Rotations: Joe Miller
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Email: |neuner
usc dot edu|
Narawut Pakaprot
Lab: Richard Thompson
Interests: My project focuses on finding the mechanism underlying memory processes, using both behavioral and electrophysiological techniques. I am using rabbits to study the brain circuitry of trace eyeblink conditioning memory.
Previous Rotations: Robert Chow, Michael Arbib
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Email: |pakaprot
usc dot edu|
Xin Wang
Lab: Judith Hirch
Interests: My current interest is to explore how the circuitry and cellular property of the visual thalamus contribute to sensory information processing. In my lab, using in vivo patch-clamp recording techniques and computational tools for analysis, response properties of action potentials as well as synaptic inputs on various geniculate neuronal species are characterized. In addition, my current research also include the development of computational tools to efficiently capture the behavior of sensory neurons.
Previous Rotations: Michael Arbib, Emily Liman
Web:
Email: |xinw
usc dot edu|
Yi-Chun Wei
Lab: Bartlett Mel
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Email: |yichunwe
usc dot edu|
Jeffrey Wurfel
Lab: Norberto Grzywacz
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Email: |wurfel
usc dot edu|
Young-Eun Yoo
Lab: Chien-Ping Ko
Interests: The role of skeletal muscle in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called Lou Gehrig's disease.
Previous Rotations: Henry Sucov, Enrique Cadenas
Web:
Email: |youngeuy
usc dot edu|
Miou Zhou
Lab: Michel Baudry
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Previous Rotations: Emily Liman
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Email: |miouzhou
usc dot edu|
2002
Carlos Cabrera
Lab: Zhong-Lin Lu
Interests: Functional mechanisms of learning and attention in the visual system by way of analysis of signal and noise components.
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Email: |cacabrer
usc dot edu|
Haruhisa Okawa
Lab: Alapakkam P. Sampath
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Email: |hokawa
usc dot edu|
Kimberly Rapp
Lab: Alan Watts
Interests: Characterization of catecholaminergic afferent fibers projecting from various hindbrain nuclei to forebrain regions, specifically the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Evidence suggests these afferents play a significant role in mediating metabolic signals and coordinating responses between the periphery and central nervous system.
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Email: |rapp
usc dot edu|
Zhen Zhao
Lab: Li Ma
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Email: |zzhao
usc dot edu|
