Students in Clerkships

MD III

Debha Amatya

Email: damatya@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University (2014), B.S. Bioengineering    Graduate Department: Neuroscience Research Interests: Bioengineering/Neuro-Engineering, Neuroscience Laboratory Rotation: Fred Gage, Jonathan Sebat (Su 15); Terry Sejnowski, Salk (Su 14) Thesis Lab: Fred Gage Publications

Joyce Chen

Email: j2chen@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution:UCLA 2008, B.S. Biochemistry Graduate Department: BMS Research Interests: Cancer biology, epigenetics Laboratory Rotation: Clodagh O'Shea (Su 14); Anjana Rao (Su 13); Victor Nizet (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Anjana Rao Publications

Mark Fang

Email: myfang@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: Stanford (2011), B.S. Biology, Mathematical & Computational Sciences Graduate Department: BMS Research Interests: Cancer biology, genomics, and systems biology Laboratory Rotation: Gene Yeo, Chris Glass (Su 13); Bing Ren (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Gene Yeo Publications

Anupam Garg

Email: akgarg@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington (2013), B.S. Bioengineering Graduate Department: Neuroscience Research Interests: Bioengineering and Neuroscience Laboratory Rotation: Brad Voytek, Ed Callaway (Su 14); Tom Albright, Salk (Su 13) Thesis Lab: Ed Callaway, Salk Publications

Eric Geier

Email: egeier@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: Indiana University (2011), B.S. Astronomy, Physics Graduate Department: BMS Research Interests: Cancer biology, genomics, and systems biology Laboratory Rotation: Kim Prisk, Kevin Patrick (Su 13); Kim Prisk, Rick Buxton (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Kim Prisk Publications

Kelsey Ladt

Email: kladt@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: U. of Kentucky (2009), B.S. Biology Graduate Department: Neuroscience Research Interests: Neurodegeneration and Neurotrauma Laboratory Rotation: Daniela Boassa (Su 14); Subhojit Roy (Su 13); Nigel Calcutt (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Sam Pfaff, Salk Publications

Eulanca Liu

Email: eyl015@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.S. Chemical Biology Graduate Department: Neuroscience Research Interests: The physiological basis and clinical applications of functional brain imaging Laboratory Rotation: Shyni Varghese, Karen Christman (Su 13); Jim Brewer (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Rick Buxton Publications

Stosh Ozog

Email: sozog@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley (2010), B.A./ B.S. Molecular & Cell Biology, Plant Graduate Department: TSRI Research Interests: Epidemiology/ Public Health and Immunology/ Infection Laboratory Rotation: Bruce Torbett (Su 13), Sumit Chanda & Victor Nizet (Su 14) Thesis Lab: Bruce Torbett Publications

Jason Seidman

Email: jseidman@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: UC Santa Barbara (2010), B.S./M.A. Biochemistry/Molecular Biology Graduate Department: BMS Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, metabolism, and energy homeostasis Laboratory Rotation: Chris Glass, Reuben Shaw (Su 13); Marc Montminy, Salk (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Chris Glass Publications

Sahil Shah

Email: sas032@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: U. of Maryland (2012), B.S. Cell Biology & Genetics Graduate Department: Neuroscience Research Interests: Type 2 diabetes, metabolism, and energy homeostasis Laboratory Rotation: Hollis Cline, TSRI, Ed Callawy, Salk (Su 13); Al La Spada (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Jeff Goldberg Publications

MD IV

Matt Kolar

Email: mkolar@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: U. of North Carolina (2009), B.S. Chemistry Graduate Department: BMS Research Interests: Chemical biology Laboratory Rotation: Reuben Shaw, Salk, Ben Cravatt, TSRI (Su 13); Jeff Kelly/Luke Wiseman (TSRI, Su 12) Thesis Lab: Alan Saghatelian (Salk) Publications

Spencer Moore

Email: s2moore@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: UCLA (2012), B.S. Neuroscience Graduate Department: BMS Research Interests: Systems neuroscience and neural circuits Laboratory Rotation: Binhai Zheng, Jeff Goldberg (Su 13); Jeff Isaacson (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Alysson Muotri Publications

Angela Ianni

Email: aianni@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Graduate Department: NIH Partners Program (OxCam) Research Interests: The effect of dopamine on the neural coding of reward value in healthy individuals and patients with Schizophrenia. Laboratory Rotation: Karen Berman, NIH; Tim Behrens , Oxford (Su 12) Thesis Lab: Karen Berman, NIH; Tim Behrens, Oxford Publications

Jessica Meves

Email: jmeves@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan Graduate Department: Neurosciences Thesis Title: Neuron-intrinsic and extrinsic control of axon sprouting after central nervous system injury Thesis Lab: Binhai Zheng Publications

Priya Nayak

Email: pmnayak@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: Caltech (2011), B.S. Physics Graduate Department: Bioengineering Research Interests: Stem Cells, Bioinformatics Laboratory Rotation: Shankar Subramaniam (Su 13); John Serences (Su 12); Veerabhadran Ramanathan (Su 11) Thesis Lab: Shankar Subramaniam Publications:

Nicholas Protopsaltis

Email: nprotops@ucsd.edu Undergraduate Institution: Saint Louis University Graduate Department: BMS Thesis Title: Role of Interleukin-22 in Promoting Tumor Angiogenesis  Thesis Lab: Napoleone Ferrara