Teresa Barcellos - Epidemiology Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Pomona College
E-mail: tlbarcellos@ucdavis.edu
Teresa is in her sixth year of the Program and is working in Dr. Marc Schenker's laboratory.

Hillary Davis - Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Tech
E-mail: hedavis@ucdavis.edu
Hillary is entering her second year of the program. She completed her first research rotation in the laboratory of Dr. Kent Leach. 

William Frederick - Electrical Engineering Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego
E-mail: wjfrederick@ucdavis.edu

Lawrence Low - Neurosciences Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Cornell University
E-mail: lklow@ucdavis.edu
Lawrence’s thesis work, in the laboratory of Dr. Hwai-Jong Cheng, has ascertained a cellular mechanism for axon collateral pruning in the vertebrate CNS using the hippocampal mossy fiber system in the mouse as a working model. He is reentering clinical training. 

Joyce H. Ma - Neurosciences Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: UCLA
E-mail: jhma@ucdavis.edu
Joyce has joined the laboratory of Dr. David Pleasure at the Shriner's Hospital. She has completed the first year of medical school and two years in the graduate school.  

Shiloh Martin - Immunology Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Loyola University of Chicago
E-mail: smartin@ucdavis.edu
Shiloh is entering her fifth year in the program. She is working in Dr. Tuscano's laboratory and taking Graduate School courses.  

Noah Merin - Neurosciences Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Stanford University
E-mail: nmmerin@ucdavis.edu
Noah has completed his thesis on developing novel methods including eye tracking to evaluating infants at risk for developing autism and is entering his final year.

Karen Mu - Comparative Pathology Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: University of Washington
E-mail: kjmu@ucdavis.edu
Karen Mu is a sixth-year student in the laboratory of Dr. Ebenezer Yamoah studying K+ regulation in the cochlea.  She is returning to clinical rotations this fall.

Ekama Onofiok - Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Georgia Tech
E-mail: ieonofiok@ucdavis.edu
Ekama is entering her fifth year of the program. She is working in the lab of Dr. Kit Lam.

Patricia To - Mollecular Cellular and Integrative Physiology GraduateGroup
Undergraduate Institution: UC Davis
E-mail: plto@ucdavis.edu
Patricia is entering her fourth year in the graduate school and sixth year in the program. She has begun her thesis work on examining microcircuitry in septic shock. She is using an intravital microscope system developed by Dr. Tony Cheung's laboratory (her mentor) to study the conjunctival microcirculation during sepsis as well as resolution of sepsis. She will study the effects of various sepsis treatments on the microcirculation, with the hypothesis that the effectiveness of various treatments will be reflected by improvement/lack of improvement in the microcirculation.

Heather Collins-Schramm - Undergraduate Institution: UC Davis
 Heather completed the Physician Scientist Training Program in 2006 and is entering the second year of the Vanderbilt Pediatric Residency Program. Her thesis work developed a rapid method for looking at microsatellite allele frequency differences between populations and used this method to identify markers with large differences between ethnicities. These studies have led to progress in the application of Mapping by Admixture Linkage Disequilibrium (MALD) to complex genetic diseases. 

Peyman Golshani
(Note: M.D. completed at UC Irvine for family reasons). Peyman's thesis research was in the mechanisms that underlie the formation of specific synaptic connections in the mammalian central nervous system. Using whole-cell patch clamp recordings of neurons in in-vitro brain slices, he explored the maturation of the corticothalamic synapse, at both the single synapse and network level. 

Manu Hedge - Neurosciences Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: Claremont McKenna College
Manu is in the Neurology Residency Program at UCLA
(3rd year). Manu's researh examined intracellular pH regulation in malignant gliomas, specifically, the type 1 sodium/proton exchanger (NHE1) and the mechanisms of apoptosis in these tumor cells.

Phil Huang - Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego
E-mail: pyhuang@ucdavis.edu
Phil graduated in 2007 and is doing a flexible internship at UC Davis while applying to Orthopedic Residency Program. Phil completed his thesis on biomechanical evaluation of surgical approaches for lumbar corpectomy using allograft and synthetic devices in an in-vivo calf model. 

Brian Jonas - Biochemistry Molecular Biology Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley
E-mail: bajonas@ucdavis.edu
Brian started the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Stanford in July 2007.  His thesis work that elucidated  mechanisms by which certain corepressors are regulated by distinct kinase signaling pathways.

Claudia Krispel - Neurosciences Graduate Group
Undergraduate Institution: UC San Diego
E-mail: ckrispel@ucdavis.edu
Claudia completed the Physician Scientist Training Program in six years. She entered the Ophthalmology Residency at UC Davis in July 2007. Her thesis work defined and elucidated mechanisms by which G protein/effector deactivation plays a critical role in adaptation of rod photoreceptors. Her work is potentially relevant to understanding mechanisms in a variety of important signaling cascades.

Maude Vance - Cell and Developmental Biology Ph.D. 00/M.D. 02
Maude Vance has now completed her Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Fletcher Allen Health Clinic, University of Vermont College of Medicine. She is now a Clinical Instructor on the Faculty at the University of Vermont.
Current Position: Resident
Maude's thesis examined the genetic mechanism underlying the transgenerational effects following paternal F0 irradiation.