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Where are they now? Post-doctoral fellows Tao Sun, PhD Dr. Sun's research is focused on asymmetrical patterning of the cerebral cortex and neural stem cell development. His laboratory is generating mouse models to study how topographical maps are formed in the developing cortex and how these functional regions arise from neural stem cells. Website - http://www.cornellcellbiology.com/ Russell Ferland, PhD Dr. Ferland is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Rensselaer. His research interests include the study of disorders of brain development and neurological disease and involve four central areas of investigation: 1) functional analyses of AHI1, a novel gene mapped and cloned in patients with Joubert syndrome; 2) neurogenetic and phenotypic analyses of human pedigrees with inherited neurodevelopmental abnormalities; 3) characterization of mice with targeted deletions of genes involved in brain development and brain plasticity; and 4) examination of the pathological processes that arise in neurological disease at the cellular level. Website - http://j2ee.rpi.edu/biology/update.do?artcenterkey=101 Xianhua Piao, MD, PhD Dr. Piao is a principal investigator at Children’s Hospital of Boston. Her research focuses on the role of GPR56 in normal brain development and brain tumor formation. Her goals are to: Characterize the function of GPR56 in normal brain development by generating transgenic mice and analyze the mouse phenotype; To study the role of GPR56 in brain tumor development and progression by establishing mouse brain tumor model in GPR56 transgenic mice; To identify GPR56 binding partners and characterize their role in normal brain development and brain tumor formation. Ultimately, her research may delineate a novel signaling pathway in normal brain development and brain tumor formation. Volney Sheen, MD, PhD Dr. Sheen is a principal investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. His research involves the generation and characterization of ventricular zone-derived human neural stem cells from developmental disorders of the central nervous system. He focuses on inherited disorders of cortical development, resulting from disruption of developmental processes along the ventricular zone. Website - http://bidmc.harvard.edu/display.asp?node_id=5198 Marta Nieto, PhD Dr. Nieto is a principal investigator at the Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia in Madrid, Spain. Website - http://www.cnb.uam.es/ Eric Olson, PhD Dr. Olson is a principal investigator at the State University of New York Upstate Medical University. His lab studies the relationship between dendritogenesis and cortical layer formation in the developing mouse brain by in vivo and in vitro approaches. Website- http://www.upstate.edu/neurophys/faculty.php?ID=olsone Joseph C. Corbo, MD, PhD Dr. Corbo is a neuropathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Website - http://www.brighamandwomens.org/pathology/ Joe Gleeson, MD, PhD Dr. Gleeson is a principal investigator at the University of California, San Diego. The Gleeson Lab is focused on the genetics of brain development in both human and mouse. His lab uses a combination of positional cloning, gene targeting, cell biology, and screening mice for specific phenotypes to identify critical genes and their function. Website - http://gleesonadmin.ucsd.edu/gleesonlab.htm Yaman Eksioglu, MD, PhD Dr. Eksioglu is now a fellow in pediatric neurology at Children's Hospital - Boston. Kristina Allen, PhD Dr. Allen is a Research Manager in the Human Genetics Department at Genome Therapeutics in Waltham, Massachusetts managing their Gene Discovery Department and Osteoporosis Alliance with Wyeth Research. As part of this alliance they have validated, in both animal models and cell based systems, the gene LRP5 as responsible for increased bone mineral density. This research has moved into high throughput screening and will hopefully lead to novel osteogenic therapeutics. As part of the Gene Discovery Department, Dr. Allen was also involved with identification of the asthma related gene, Adam33. Edwin S. Monuki, MD, PhD Dr. Monuki is a principal investigator and Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Developmental & Cell Biology at the University of California, Irvine. His research program involves continued studies on the mechanisms that regulate early cortical patterning, as well as new studies on the development, disease and evolution of the cerebral cortex. Website - http://www.ucihs.uci.edu/com/pathology/faculty/emonuki/index.html Anjen Chenn, PhD Dr. Chenn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at Northwestern University. Website - http://pubweb.northwestern.edu/~ach617/ PhD Thesis Students Chris Reid Dr. Reid completed his PhD in neuroscience and MD from Harvard Medical School. He is now an assistant professor at the University of the Uniformed Health Services in Bethesda, MD. Marcus Ware Dr. Ware completed his PhD in neuroscience and MD from Harvard Medical School. He is now an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Tulane University. He focuses on the surgical treatment diseases of the brain and spine. He specializes in primary and metastatic brain tumors, with an emphasis on gliomas, pituitary tumors and skull base tumors. Jorge Gonzalez Dr. Gonzalez completed his PhD in neuroscience at Harvard Medical School. He now works for EF America, Inc. Jeremy Fox Dr. Fox completed his PhD in genetics from Harvard Medical School. He now works for McKinsey Consulting in the area of biotechnology. Teresa Chae Dr. Chae completed her PhD in neuroscience and is currently finishing her MD at Harvard Medical School. Sophie Currier Dr. Currier completed her PhD in neuroscience and is currently finishing her MD at Harvard Medical School. Tom Deuel Dr. Deuel completed his PhD in neuroscience and is currently finishing his MD at Harvard Medical School. Jun Shen Dr. Shen completed her PhD in neuroscience and is currently working in Dr. David P. Corey's Laboratory at Howard Hughes Medical Institute/Harvard Medical School. Her research focus is to identify and characterize genes responsible for mechanosensory function in the hair cells of the inner ear. If you are a Walsh Lab alumnus and would like to be included in this page, please contact us at walshlab@bidmc.harvard.edu |
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