NEUROSCIENCE ALUMNI RESOURCE PEOPLE:
Name=Amy Cobden
Email=amycobden@gmail.com
Grad=2003
Permission=yes
Since graduating I have worked abroad in both Democratic Republic of
Congo doing field work in a bonobo (Pan paniscus) research camp and
Leipzig Germany, at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
After two years of living out of a duffel bag in those respective places,
I started working in the Anthropology Department, in Emory University
in Dr. Patricia Whitten's Lab for Reproductive Endocrinology and Environmental
Toxicology (this lab's particular specialty is non-invasive fecal steroid
analysis). I am now a grad student at Emory, in the Anthro. department,
working under Dr. Whitten and am interested in a wide range of issues
centered on behavioral endocrinology of the bonobos (mating competition,
conflict resolution, affiliative behaviors in non-kin, etc.) as well
as their conservation and related issues, which transcend a myriad of
political, social, economic and environmental issues not ony in sub-saharan
Africa, but the rest of the world as well. I live in Atlanta, and am
always happy to help out other oberliners when and where I can.
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Name=Kevin K. Makino
Email=Kevin_Makino@urmc.rochester.edu
Grad=1999
Permission=Yes
MD/PhD Student (M2/G2)
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Department of Community and Preventive Medicine
Division of Health Services Research
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Name=Mark Lazarev
Email=markglazarev@yahoo.com
Grad=1996
Permission=Yes
After graduating, I worked at the University of Pennsylvania in the
department of psychiatry, doing schizophrenia research with PET imaging.
Afterwards, I went to medical school at University of Pittsburgh, did
my residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
in Boston. I have just completed my first year of gastroenterology fellowship
at the University of Pittsburgh.
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Name=Sandra (Palombi) Thompson
Email=sthomp@illinoisalumni.org
Grad=1986
Permission=y
After graduating from Oberlin I worked in a lab at the University of
Chicago with Dr Ricardo Maselli studying neuromuscular transmission
in patients with ALS. I then abandoned neuroscience, spent 2.5 years
in Japan, returned to the US to get a master's degree in Computer Science
at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign where I have been
ever since working in the Computer Science department part-time while
raising my twins who are now 8 years old!
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Name=Gilbert C. Gee
Email=gilgee (at) umich.edu
Grad=1993
Permission=Yes
Since I graduated I learned that Oberlin sweatshirts can survive over
10 years. They must be made of the same stuff they use to keep Twinkies
eternally fresh in your grocery store (does anyone actually eat them???).
In between thinking about processed food, I got a doctorate in public
health at Johns Hopkins and am currently an Assistant Professor of Health
Behavior and Health Education at the University of Michigan. If any
current Obies want some opinions on either school's program or my field,
please feel free to contact me. My thoughts are freely shared, but the
caveat is that you get what you pay for.
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Name=Lauren B. French
Email=lfrench@allegheny.edu
URL=http://webpub.allegheny.edu/employee/l/lfrench/
Grad=1993
Permission=yes
I went to graduate school at Cornell University (Ithaca campus) in the
department of Neurobiology and Behavior. My dissertation was on the
expression of a few different ion channels in the crustacean stomatogastric
nervous system. After my PhD defense I started as assistant professor
of Biology and Neuroscience at Allegheny College, where I have been
ever since! If any Obies are interested in doing summer projects in
lovely Western PA, I'd love to have them in my lab!
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Name=Phil Larimer
Email=phillip.larimer@world.oberlin.edu
Grad=2003
bio=I went to grad school. Which isn't in and of itself to helpful to
anyone, but I know most all of the neuroscience faculty here at Case
Western, so if anyone was interested in collaborating on a Neuro project
not directly covered by an Oberlin prof I bet that I could find them
someone in the area (a meager 30 minute drive from Oberlin to beaucoup
equipment and funding).
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Jeff Radel, Ph.D.
Email=jradel@kumc.edu
Grad=1979
bio=Graduate school (MA, PhD) Neurosciences/Experimental Psychology,
Dalhousie Univ. 1980-1987 Post-doc Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
1987-1992 Faculty Member University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas
City, Kansas Assoc. Pfrofessor w/ tenure 1999
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Name=Reiko Sato
Email=r.sato@att.net
Grad=94 Permission
bio=I got my M.H.S. and Ph.D. (2000) in epidemiology from Johns Hopkins
University School of Hygiene and Public Health. I stayed on another
year to do a post-doc at Hopkins in epidemiology. I joined Wyeth as
a Senior Health Outcomes Scientist after finishing the post-doc. Doing
research in the private sector is much more fast pace, but it is just
as interesting and challenging as in academia.
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Kate Waimey
Email: kwaimey@hotmail.com
Grad:01
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Neil Gray
Email: nag2103 (at) columbia.edu
Grad: 01
In MD/PhD program at Columbia University, studying serotonin
as it relates to anxiety and depression using brain imaging in humans,
and genetic manipulation of mice. Prior to that, worked at the NIH in
the post-baccalaureate intramural research training award (IRTA) program,
which is a great opportunity to spend a year or two in lab before committing
to grad/med school. Feel free to contact me: nag2103 (at) columbia.edu.
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LaraPetrak
Email: lara_petrak@hotmail.com
Grad: 01
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Jenni Huelsman
Email: Jenni_Huelsman@hotmail.com
Grad: 01
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Daniel Kimmel
Email: daniel.kimmel@world.oberlin.edu
Grad: 01
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Name=Albert Borroni
Email=albert.borroni@oberlin.edu
URL=http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/aborroni/
Grad=85
bio=-Taught high school physics - Padua Franciscan High School, Parma,
Ohio. -Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Northeastern Ohio Universities College
of Medicine (NEOUCOM)- 1992. - Married 1989 (as of 2001 - still married
o same person). - Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Neurophysiology,
Frankfurt Germany - 1992-1994. - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of
Virginia; 1994- 1996. - Visiting Asst. Prof. Neuroscience & Biology;1996
- 2000. - Director Oberlin Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching
(OCTET); 2000 - present.
echnologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET); 2000 - present.
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Name=Andrew Bean
Email=a.bean@uth.tmc.edu
URL=http://nba.uth.tmc.edu/resources/faculty/members/bean.htm
Grad=1982
bio=Ph.D 1990 Yale Univ
Post Doc. 1990-1993 Karolinska Inst.
Post Doc. 1993-1997 Stanford Univ.
Asst. Prof. 1997-2004 Univ. Texas Med School
Assoc. Prof. 2004- Univ. Texas Med School
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Name=Susan Sutterfield Wilks
Email=swilks@azbar.org
Grad=1987
bio=I earned a Master's degree in Physiology before going on to law
school. I am now a practicing intellectual property attorney,
soon to be patent attorney in Phoeniz, Arizona.
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Name=Moeketsi Mosola
Email=Mosola@hotmail.com
URL=http://homepages.msn.com/playingfields/mosola/index.html
Grad=1993
bio=Did Intenship at Mclean Mental Hospital in Boston. Worked for the
President Office of Mr Nelson Mandela in South Africa for 4 years. Currently
a graduate student at Univ of Houston in Economics. Please add my details
to your site.
I would like to be a resource person for Winter Term.
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Name=Elana Farace, Ph.D.
Email=ef6p@hscmail.mcc.virginia.edu
URL=http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/people/dop/dopDetail.cfm?drid=602
Grad=1989
bio=I'm now an assistant professor of research at the University of
Virginia
Medical School in the Department of Neurosurgery. I also teach
here in the
Psychology Department. I am a licensced psychologist, specializing
in
neuropsychology, and I spend 10% of my time seeing patients, 20% of
my time
teaching, and 70% of my time doing research on brain-behavior relationships
with clinical populations.
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Name=Amy Wisniewski
Email=amy@ren.psy.jhu.edu
Grad=1994
bio=I am currently a member of the Behavioral Endocrinology
Group in the Department of Psychology at
Johns Hopkins University. I expect to complete
my Ph.D. in psychology during the Fall
semester, 1998.
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Name=Jon Gottesman
Email=gotte001@umn.edu
URL=http://www.neuroscience.umn.edu/ProStu/facprof/gottesman.html
Grad=1974
bio=Spent a year as a lab tech at the pain Research Lab of Dr. Kenneth
Casey
at the University of Michigan. Entered graduate school in Experimental
Psychology at the University of Minnesota where I obtained my PhD doing
single cell/intracellular recording in the retina studying the physiological
processes underlying color vision and contrast perception.
Accepted a position in the Department of Physiology (about
to become the
Dept. of Cellular and Molecular Physiology) in 1988, where I have continued
research in the retina, with a current focus on synaptic tranmission
and
the role of glutamate receptor subtypes in information processing.
I teach and coordinate one week of a 3 week intensive
laboratory course in
cellular neuroscience held in the beautiful Biology Field station at
the
headwaters of the Mississippi River in Itasca State park. The course
(originally
funded by a Hughes grant) has attracted students from all over the US.
After the 3 week course, students spend 6 weeks working (and getting
paid) in
research laboratories at the Minneapolis campus of the University of
Minnesota.
(Okay, so it's a shameless 'plug' - it is such a great course, I won't
apologize)
Feel free to email me for more information.
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Name=Armin Rahmanian
Email=rahmanian.1@osu.edu
Grad=1997
bio=In my second year of graduate school in health administration
at The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health.
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Name=Melissa Rosenberger
e-mail=mhrosen@u.washington.edu
Grad=1996
bio=For two years I worked at a cognition laboratory affiliated with
the University of Hawaii. I have just started a Ph.D program in Neurobiology
and Behavior at the University of Washington. I highly recommend
this program especially for students who are interested in neuroscience
but are unsure about what sub-field they would like to study.
This program requires first year students to rotate through three or
four laboratories before choosing a thesis lab. The program is
highly interdisciplinary the faculty and staff create a supportive and
challenging atmosphere and the faculty work with a strong spirit of
collaboration. also recommend taking time off for anyone who is
unsure about where to go for graduate school. I feel like I am much
better prepared to face the challenges of graduate school now that I
know exactly where I want to be and what kind of work I want to pursue.
Most of the incoming graduate students are not starting directly from
undergraduate school. don't know who will be reading this but
students are welcome to e-mail me if they have any questions about this
program or graduate school in general.
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..I
just started graduate school...[P]lease feel free to distribute my contact
information to any students interested in talking about applying to
and selecting a graduate program. I know that's what advisors
are for, but sometimes it can help to hear from someone who has just
gone through the process.
Thanks,
-Ary
Shalizi, NSBP'96
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Still putting the LABOR in LABORatory...
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Aryaman Shalizi
BBS Program
Harvard Medical School
Boston MA 02115
