-- Department of Environmental Medicine --
Program in ToxicologyCurrent Graduate Students |
2006 Entering Students | |
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Eric E. Beier University Wisconsin La Crosse, B.S. 2005 Eric_beier@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Mike Zuscik, Ph.D. Project Summary: Role of cigarette smoke and its constituents on mesenchymal cell osteogenesis |
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David McMillan Vanderbilt University, B.S. 2006 David_mcmillan@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Richard Phipps, Ph.D. Project Summary: The role of AhR in the suppression of RelB-mediated cigarette smoke-induced inflammation |
| 2007 Entering Students | |
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Joshua Allen Ashland University, B.S. 2007 Joshua_allen@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Deborah Cory-Slechta, Ph.D. Project Summary: The role of inflammation in Parkinson’s disease |
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Whitney Christian Davidson College, B.S. 2001 Whitney_christian@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Ned Ballatori, Ph.D. Project Summary: The role of Ostα-Ostβ in bile acid homeostasis |
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Casey Manning Central Michigan, B.S. 2006 Casey_manning@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Jack Finkelstein, Ph.D. Project Summary: Investigating the effects of radiation on the pulmonary immune response |
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Chia Thach University of Wisconsin/Madison, B.S. 2006 Chia_thach@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Jack Finkelstein, Ph.D. Project Summary: Examining the impact of charged nanobeads on cytokine activity upon lipid raft distortions |
| 2008 Entering Students | |
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Bradley Buczynski University of Akron, B.S. 2003 Bradley_buczynski@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Michael O’Reilly, Ph.D. Project summary: The effects of neonatal hyperoxia on lung development and innate immunity. |
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Daniel Dever St. John Fisher, B.S. 2006 Daniel_dever@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Lisa Opanashuk, Ph.D. Project Summary: Investigating the role of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) in cerebellar granule neuron precursor cells (GNPs) and its implications for Medulloblastoma pathogenesis |
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Sadie Gorman Union College, B.S. 2008 Sadie_Gorman@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Ned Ballatori, Ph.D. Project Summary: The role of the organic solute transporter in lipid homeostasis. |
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John Lapek Penn State University, B.S. 2005 John_Lapek@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Alan Friedman, Ph.D. Project Summary: Proteomic response in steroid receptors in prostate cancer progression with EGCG treatment. |
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Brittany Baisch Western Connecticut State University, B.S. 2008 Brittany_Serke@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Alison Elder, Ph.D. Project Summary: In vitro characterization of oxidative stress responses induced by nanoparticle exposure and uptake. |
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Bethany Winans University of Pittsburgh, B.S. 2002 Bethany_Winans@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: B Paige Lawrence, Ph.D. Project Summary: The role of AhR activation in immune system programming. |
| 2009 Entering Students | |
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John (Allen) Bennett Western Carolina University, B.S. 2008 JohnA_bennett@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Tom Gasiewicz, Ph.D.. Project Summary: Aryl hydrocarbon receptor regulation of hematopoiesis |
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Allison Greminger Cedar Crest College, B.S. 2009 Allison_greminger@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D. Project Summary: Iron deficiency as a susceptibility to secondary insults in the CNS |
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Katherine Ringo Stanford University, B.S. 2008 Katherine_ringo@urmc.rochester.edu Advisors: David Dean, Ph.D. and Jennifer Young, Ph.D. Project Summary: Regulation of leukocyte recruitment by CCN1, an extracellular matrix protein, in inflammatory lung injury |
| 2010 Entering Students | |
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Sage Begolly University of Delaware, B.A. 2010 Sage_begolly@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Kerry O’Banion, M.D., Ph.D. Project Summary: Effects of radiation and chemotherapy on the CNS |
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Amanda Croasdell
Utah State University, B.S. 2010 Amanda_croasdell@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Richard Phipps, Ph.D. Project Summary: The effects of specialized proresolution lipid mediators on cigarette smoke-induced inflammation and bacterial infections |
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Khatera Rahmani
Brooklyn College, B.S. 2009 Khatera_rahmani@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: David Dean, Ph.D. Project Summary: Mechanisms of airway smooth muscle gene transfer to attenuate airway obstruction in asthma |
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Emily Resseguie Calvin College, B.S. 2010 Emily_resseguie@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Michael O’Reilly, Ph.D. Project Summary: Cellular consequences of hyperoxia-induced mitochondrial DNA damage in lung epithelium |
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Brenn Stacey University of Montana, B.A. 2010 Brenn_stacey@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Thomas Gasiewicz, Ph.D. Project Summary: The interaction of the Wnt pathway with AhR and their effects on the quiescence of hematopoietic stem cells |
| 2011 Entering Students | |
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Christiaan King Paul Smith’s College, B.S. 2011 Christiaan_King@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: David Dean, Ph.D. |
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Claire McCarthy Hiram College, B.A. 2011 Claire_McCarthy@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Patricia Sime, MD. |
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Michael Rudy University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, B.S. 2010 Michael_Rudy@urmc.rochester.edu Advisor: Margot Mayer-Pröschel, Ph.D. |