2020 Honors Thesis Projects

2020 Honors Thesis Projects

Luis Felipe  Carvao

The Effect of Social Support on Withdrawal and Abstinence in HIV+ Smokers

Rebecca Ashare, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Nicotine Addiction 

 

Donnisa Edmonds

Reduced physiological sensitivity to emotionally evocative movie clip in children with callous-unemotional traits

Rebecca Waller, Psychology

 

Alexander Farid

Olfactory fMRI in Awake-Behaving Mice

Jau Gottfried, Neurology

 

Elyse Gadra

White Matter Development and Neurogenesis in a Mouse Model of Prenatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy

Stewart Anderson, Psychiatry

 

Jamie Galanaugh

Using Migratory Interneurons as Therapeutic Vectors for Glioblastoma

Stewart Anderson, Psychiatry

 

Mikaela Glass

The Significance of Dissociable Projections from the Medial Prefrontal Cortex to the Dorsal Medial Striatum

Marc Fuccillo, Department of Neuroscience

 

Mahip  Grewal

Exploring the Genetic Architecture of Autism: The Relationship Between Polygenic Risk Score and Quantitative Phenotypes

Edward Brodkin, Department of Psychiatry

 

Zoe Griffiths

Factor Analysis: Autistic Traits in Autism without Intellectual Disability

Edward Brodkin, Psychiatry 

 

Danielle Harris

Phopsho-C-Jun as a predictive marker of chronic and progressive neurodegeneration following a mouse model of TBI

Victoria Johnson, Neurosurgery

 

Kaila Helm

Characterizing the Slit/Robo Pathway in a Tissue-Engineered Rostral Migratory Stream

D. Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery- Perelman School of Medicine

 

Geena Jung

The Role of Repulsive Guidance Signaling in Pediatric Low-Grade Gliomas

Yuanquan Song, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 

Mackenzie  Kagan

Investigation of Neurofilament Light Chain as a Potential Biomarker for Frontotemporal Degenerative Diseases 

Murray Grossman, Department of Neurology

 

Anita Kalluri

Oxytocin receptor signaling in the NTS and VTA: a new role in food seeking behavior

Harvey Grill, Psychology

 

Saarang Karandikar

3DP Of Micro-Tissue Engineered Neural Networks for BMIs 

Kacy Cullen, Neurosurgery

 

Howard Li

Tau pathology spreads between anatomically-connected regions of the brain and is modulated by a LRRK2 mutation

Virginia Lee, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 

William Li

Flow Cytometry-based Investigation of Cytotoxic B Cell Exosomes in MS

Amit Bar-Or, Neurology

 

Xin Liu

Neonatal opioid exposure and development of negative affect

Julie Blendy, Pharmacology

 

Yu-Ting Liu

Assessing CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder-related phenotype reversibility in mice

Zhaolan Zhou, Genetics

 

Sabina London

The Role of the Female Song System in the Regulation of Courtship Behavior

Marc Schmidt, Biology 

 

Lydia Maliackel

The association of family history of trouble with the law or incarceration and suicide ideation in youth

Ruben Gur, Psychiatry, Neurology, Radiology

  

Angela Malinovitch

In vitro characterization of EGFR-targeting CAR T cells for Glioblastoma

Donald O'Rourke, Neurosurgery

 

Patrick Markwalter

In-Utero Opioid Exposure Alters Mouse Offspring Behavior and Communication

Mariella De Biasi, Department of Neuroscience

 

Dominique Martinez

Neural Basis of Persistence in Young Children

Allyson Mackey, Psychology 

 

Simon Miller

Protein Signatures in Hippocampal Subfields relating to Alzheimer’s Disease and Primary Progressive Aphasia

David Irwin, Neurology

 

Christopher Muracca

The effect of array coherence on perceived numerosity 

Elizabeth Brannon, Psychology

 

Nicholas Paleologos

Three-Dimensional In-Vitro Model of Neuroinflammation post Traumatic Brain Injury

Daniel Cullen, Neurosurgery & Bioengineering

 

Alexa Pisciotti

Impacts of Acute Stress on BNST Neurons in Mice

Shinjae Chung, Chronobiology and Sleep

 

Hareena Sangha

Analysis of cell-free DNA in glioblastoma patients

Erica Carpenter, Medicine

 

Vaishnavi Sharma

fMRI study of gender differences in brain activation in response to pain

Ted Satterthwaite, Department of Psychiatry

 

Samantha Steeman

Heritability of the Broad Autism Phenotype

Edward Brodkin, Department of Psychiatry

 

Robert Subtirelu

The Investigation and Classification of Post-Traumatic Epilepsy

Han-Chiao Isaac Chen, Department of Neurosurgery

 

Eric Teichner

Defining Neurobiological Signatures for Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury

Andrew Newberg, Marcus Institute of Integrative Health, Thomas Jefferson University

Paul Um

 

Orsay Virus Infection Alters Thermotactic Behavior and Induces Sleep through flp-13 Signaling in Caenorhabditis elegans Nematodes

David Raizen, Neurology

 

Chad Vigil

Auditory Analysis of Song Involving Viscerosensory Feedback in the Male Zebra Finch

Marc Schmidt, Biology

 

Chad Vigil

Song Analysis Following Perturbation of Viscerosensory Feedback

Marc Schmidt, Biology

 

Grace Wu

Developing an in vitro Model of the Dendritic Cytoskeleton

Erika Holzbaur, Physiology

 

Jae Yoon

Stress Induced Effect on the Level of PACAP-27 in PVT and Ethanol (EtOH) Drinking Behavior  

Seema Bhatnagar, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine