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2004 Grass Fellows

Rachel Mary Berquist, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota Duluth / Biology Department

Project Title: RESPONSE DYNAMICS OF SACCULAR AFFERENT FIBERS IN FREE-SWIMMING TOADFISH, OPSANUS TAU



Manuel Estrada, Ph.D.
Yale University / School of Medicine
Laboratory of Molecular Hermeneutics / Dept. of Pharmacology

Project Title: EFFECTS OF STEROID HORMONES ON INTRACELLULAR Ca2+ SIGNALING IN A NEURONAL CELL LINE



Michael A. Farries
University of Washington Med. Ctr.
Depts. Biology and Otolaryngology

Project Title: LONG-TERM SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY IN NUCLEUS RA OF THE ZEBRA FINCH: A POSSIBLE SUBSTRATE FOR SONG LEARNING


Robert Crooks Froemke
University of California

Project Title: THE CELLULAR MECHANISMS AND SYNAPTIC ORGANIZATION OF NEOCORTICAL RECEPTIVE FIELDS


Eric Briant Gonzales
University of North Texas Health Science Center
Dept. of Pharmacology and Neuroscience

Project Title: KINETIC DETERMINANTS OF THE SECOND TRANSMEMBRANE DOMAIN 7´ POSITION IN THE GLYCINE α1 RECEPTOR


Emma Heart, Ph.D.
Evans Biomedical Research Center

Project Title: NAD(P)H OSCILLATIONS IN PANCREATIC ISLET CELLS AND THEIR MODULATION BY METABOLIC AND ELECTRIC STIMULI


Leib Litman
Brooklyn College / The City University of New York

Project Title: IN SEARCH FOR A MODEL ORGANISM FOR COMPLEX FORMS OF IMPLICIT LEARNING: EXPLORING CRYPSIS AND THE SERIAL REACTION TIME TASK IN CUTTLEFISH


Mark H. Shalinsky, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College / Dept. of Physiology

Project Title: AN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE LUNG RHYTHM IN THE BULLFROG, RANA CATESBEIANA, AS AN EVOLUTIONARY PRECURSOR TO GASPING IN MAMMALS


James Jiayuan Tong, Ph.D.
University of California, Irvine
Center for Molecular and Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics

Project Title: MITOCHONDDRIA DYNAMICS IN SYNAPTIC PLASTICITY AND LEARNING


Yumiko Umino, Ph.D.
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Center for Vision Research

Project Title: PROCESSING OF VISUAL INFORMATION OF LIMULUS BRAIN


Tamily A. Weissman
Columbia University
Center for Neurobiology & Behavior
Department of Neurology

Project Title: THE ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE PATHWAY MEETS NEURAL DEVELOPMENT: DOES PRESENILIN PROCESS THE REELIN RECEPTOR AND REGULATE NEURONAL MIGRATION?


PROGRAM DIRECTOR
Susan R. Barry, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Mount Holyoke College
Dept. of Biological Sciences


PROGRAM ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Daphne Soares, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
Neurosciences / Biology Department


2004 FORBES LECTURER
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Ph.D.
Sr. Vice President, Research Drug Discovery
Genentech, Inc.