Essel Research by Advisor

Advisor: Elizabeth M. Adler

Anderson, Gail, (01) "Calcium channels involved in mediating the release of neuropeptide Y in differentiated and undifferentiated PC12 cells," Year: 98-99
Beery, Annaliesse, "Calcium control of NPY mRNA levels in PC12 cells," Year: 96-97
Gay, Elizabeth, "Calcium regulation of NPY mRNA levels in PC12 cells," Year: 97-98
Grote, Sara, "Regulation of acetylcholinesterase activity in PC12 cells by divalent cations," Year: 99-00, "Regulation of AChE in PC12 cells by depolarization and calcium influx," Year: 99-00
Jones III, Carter, "Studies on neuropeptide Y release from PC12 cells," Year: 96-97
Joshi, Ricky, "Calcium channels involved in mediating the release of neuropeptide Y in differentiated PC12 cells," Year: 98-99
Moran, Magdalene, (96) "Effects of substratum on neurite outgrowth in differentiated PC12 cells," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Children's Hospital
Semble, Rebecca, "Regulation of AChE in PC12 dells by depolarization and tamoxifen"
Stephans, Kevin, (00) "Regulation of acetylcholinesterase activity in PC12 cells by divalent cations," Year: 99-00, After Williams: Case Western University
Wang, Yang, (01) "Calcium compartmentalization in AChE regulation in PC12 cells," Year: 00-01, After Williams: University of Pennsylvania Medical School

Advisor: Richard Henneberry

Toohey, Siobhan, "Glutamate neurotoxicity in a cultured human cell line," Year: 94-95

Advisor: Noah Sandstrom

Adams, Christina, (03) "Neuroprotective effects of estrogens during transient global ischemia on the water T maze task," Year: 01-02, After Williams: Howard University Medical School
Bamat, Nicolas, (04) "Transient global ischemia in rats impairs learning on the morris water maze spatial task and the potential neuroproductive effects of estrogen," Year: 01-02, "Elimination of endogenous testosterone via gonadectomy," Year: 02-03, After Williams: Research Technician, Neuroscience Department, Albert Einstein Medical College
DiPillo, Sandra, (01) "Modulation of memory by pregenolone sulfate effects of MK-801 on radial arm maze performance of male rats"
Dwyer, Ann, "The effects of plant-drivd estrogenic compounds on estrogen sensitive behaviors in rats," Year: 99-00
Hart, Sarah, (02) "Long-term dffects of maternal separation on spatial memory in rats," Year: 00-01, After Williams: M.D./Ph.D program, Duke University Medical School
Kelly, Brian, (02) "Estrogenic modulation of time perception," Year: 00-01, "Neuroprotective effect of estrogen against transient local ischemia in rats on the morris water maze learning task," Year: 01-02, After Williams: Surgical Technician, Albany Medical Center
Lee, Andrea, (02) "Modulation of memory by pregenolone sulfate effects of MK-801 on radial arm maze performance of male rats"
O'Brien, Jessica, (03) "The neuroprotective effects of estrogen against transient global ischemia on a spatial learning task in rats," Year: 01-02, After Williams: Research Associate, Neuronal Plasticity Lab, UCSF
Rudoy, John, (05) "The effects of estrogen on attentional abilities in rats," Year: 02-03
Taglieri, Lindsay, (04) "Transient global ischemia in rats impairs learning on the morris water maze spatial task and the potential neuroproductive effects of estrogen," Year: 01-02
Wasserman, Molly, (04) "The effects of testosterone/estradiol on memory retention in rats," Year: 02-03, After Williams: Pharmaceutical Company, Minneapolis

Advisor: Luis Schettino

Belknap, Miles, (05) "Motor processing and control and conscious experience of willed action and the relationship between them," Year: 02-03

Advisor: Paul R. Solomon

Brush, Mike, (96) "Diagnosing dementia in primary care: a useful gognitive screening battery sensitive to Alzheimer's disease," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Resident, Ophthamology, University of Washington
Caley, Jessica, (98) "Retrospective anaysis of the 7-minute screen for diagnosis of alzheimer's disease," Year: 97-98, After Williams: Coordinator/Specialist, Kessler Financial Services
Calvo, Vivian, (96) "The implementation of dementia screening in a primary care setting: a brief screening battery sensitive to alzheimer's disease," Year: 94-95
Caskey, Vanessa, "Human electromyographic responses to stimuli," Year: 99-00
Colestock, Adam, Alzheimer's research project, Year: 99-00
Foran, Heather, (04) Alzheimer's research project, Year: 01-02
Gunther, Matthew, Research in AD, Year: 99-00
Hendi, Jennifer, (99) "Towards the development of an alzheimer's disease informant questionaire," Year: 98-99, After Williams: Boston Unveristy
Hirshoff, Aliina, "The development of a brief cognitive screening battery sensitive to alzheimer's disease," Year: 93-94
Im, Annie, (01) Neuropsychological testing project, Year: 00-01
Kelly, Bridget, (95) "Effect of long-term tacrine treatment in alzheimer's disease," Year: 94-95, "Screening for dementia: a brief cognitive battery sensitive to alzheimer's disease," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Duke University
Kim, Susan, (02) Memory research project, Year: 01-02, After Williams: New York Medical College
Kummer, Rebecca, (00) "Research in alzheimer's disease," Year: 99-00, After Williams: University of Rochester
Leibowitz, Becky, (94) "The effects of nimodipine on LTP and classical conditioning in aged rabbits," Year: 93-94, After Williams: Stanford Medical School
Lurding, Sarah, (98) "Towards the development of an informant questionaire sensitive to alzeheimer's disease," Year: 97-98, After Williams: University of Louisville
Marchant, Natalie, (01) "Screening and performing neuropsychological evaluations of possible dementia patients," Year: 00-01, After Williams: Research Assistant, Veteran's Hospital, San Diego, CA
Mehta, Sonya, "Synaptic plasticity in aged animals," Year: 93-94
Niederhoffer, Kate, (99) "Determining the prevalence of alzheimer's disease in the nursing home," Year: 98-99
Olson, Meredith, Seven minute screen project, Year: 02-03
Oyler, Catherine, (93) "Analysis of the effects of the anti-dementia drug tacrine on simple forms of learning and memory," Year: 92-93, After Williams: Director, Finance & Operations, Maret Pharmaceuticals
Relin, Mahri, (95) "Effect of long-term tacrine treatment in alzheimer's disease," Year: 94-95, "Longitudinal changes in probable alzheimer's disease as measured by a brief cognitive screening battery," Year: 94-95, "Long-term effects of tacrine in alzheimer's patients," Year: 93-94, After Williams: Doctoral Student/Research Assistant, UCSD & SDSU
Samuels, Marilyn, "Diagnosing dementia in parkinson's disease: cognitive screening battery," Year: 96-97
Shahid, Kameron, (04) Seven minute screen project, Year: 02-03
Silver, Amanda, (96) "Cognitive improvement in the healthy elderly: an evaluation of over-the-counter memory enhancers," Year: 94-95
Stashwick, Caitlin, (02) "Assessing effects of increased awareness on early diagnosis of AD," Year: 00-01, After Williams: Research Assistant, Dana Farber Cancer Insistute, Boston, MA
Tomasi, Marie, (93) "Differential diagnosis of demetia and depression using measures of memory," Year: 92-93, After Williams: Neurology Resident, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center

Advisor: Heather Williams

Adams, Felicity, (93) "Sex and species differences in the expression of CCK in the avian brain," Year: 92-93
Chen, Walter, (01) "Song perception in female zebra finches," Year: 00-01
Choudhary, Sheraz, (00) "Central v. peripheral lateralization in the song system of the zebra finch," Year: 99-00, After Williams: Exeter Educational Management Systems
Conner, Denise, "Behavioral and neural plasticity in the adult zebra finch," Year: 98-99
Crisman, Marillo, "Kin discrimination and song learning in zebra finches," Year: 93-94
Danforth, Jennifer, "The influence of testosterone on song plasticity in the adult male zebra finch," Year: 96-97
Del Prete, Gregory, (04) "Re-configuration of song representation in the adult zebra finch," Year: 02-03, After Williams: Ph.D. Program in Microbiology and Virology, University of Pennsylvania
Garland, Matt, (98) "Methods to uncover the transmission of birdsong in a population of house finches, carpodacus mexicanus," Year: 97-98, After Williams: Project Manager, Kenan Systems Corp, Lucent Technologies
Gordon, Alexander, (04) "Musical similarity and genetic relatedness of house finches," Year: 01-02
Hendry, Tory, (04) "Microsatellites of song bird dialects in the local house finch population," Year: 02-03
Hirshman, Deborah, (98) "Early-induced puberty: effects on song learning in the zebra finch," Year: 97-98, After Williams: CRTA Fellow, NCI-FCRDCE
Holland, Peter, (05) "The song 'vocabulary' in the local house finch population," Year: 02-03
Kerr, Maria, (05) "Is there a correlation between male zebra finch courting song and their movement during the production of this song?" Year: 02-03
Lafave, James Nick, (02) "Identifying polymorphic microsatellite sequences of DNA in the house finch," Year: 00-01, "Using microsatellite loci in the house finch genome to develop a mathematical model of genetic relatedness of individuals in the local house finch population," Year: 01-02
Linck, Brett, (99) "Plasticity in the adult zebra finch song system: decompartmentalization of the motor mapin nXIIts following tracheosyringeal nerve transection and regrowth," Year: 98-99, After Williams: Air Force Officer, University of the Health Sciences
Mullins, Franklin, "Addition by subtraction: early catecholaminergic lesion of the zebra finch area X leads to increased number of notes in song," Year: 96-97, "Visualizing dopamine in the anterior forebrain of zebra finch, Year: 94-95
Munyon, Chuck, "Higher cortical reorganization in response to peripheral nerve regeneration in the zebra finch," Year: 99-00
Murrell, Matt, (95) "Representation of song in motor areas," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Tierney, Jessica, (03) "Identification of the dominant side in lateralization of song in the house finch musical ability," Year: 01-02, After Williams: Research Associate, Neuroscience, UCSF
Wang, Sha-Wei, "Immunohistochemistry of peptides in the developing brain," Year: 93-94
Wright, Andrew, (93) "Development of laterality in the song system," Year: 92-93, After Williams: General Surgery Resident, University of Wisconsin Hosptial and Clinic

Advisor: Betty Zimmerberg

Anderson, Gail, (01) "Influence of postnatal rearing condition on adult axiety behavior," Year: 99-00
Berson, Jennifer, (99) "Anxiety responses to amternal separation in neonatal rats," Year: 98-99, After Williams: Research Assistant New York State Psychiatric
Blaskey, Lisa, "Prenatal stress and neurosteriods," Year: 94-95
Brody, Dafina, "Marine biological laboratory program at woods hole," Year: 98-99
Brown, Rachel, (94) "The effects of prenatal and early postnatal stress on the adult neurochemical stress response," Year: 93-94, After Williams: Research Associate, University of Arizona
Chen, Audrey, "Neonatal social isolation effects on the development of anxiety behavior in rats," Year: 99-00
Critchell, Dana, (97) "Genetic influences on anxiety: differential neurosteriod responsivity in selectively-bred rats," Year: 96-97
Cross, Jessica, "Effects of maternal separation stressor on the development of the active state," Year: 92-93
Davidson, Abigail, (03) "The effect of periodic maternal isolations in early life on the vocalizations during play in rats," Year: 00-01, "The effects of allopregnanalone on stress related ultrasonic vocalizations in rat pups in high and low vocalizing populations," Year: 01-02, After Williams: Cellular and Molecular Medicine Ph.D. Program, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Drucker, Peggy, "The behavioral effects of the neuroactive steriod allopregnanolone on neonatal rats prenatally exposed to alcohol," Year: 93-94
Edwards, Kristin, "Behavioral effects of alcohol administered during lactation," Year: 94-95
Fish, Eric, (96) "Neurosteriods and male sexual behavior," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Tufts University
Fluty, Alyssa, (05) "Behavior and allopregnanolone concentrations in rats bred to show high- and low-rates of vocalizations," Year: 02-03
Frisone, Deborah, (00) "An animal model of post-traumatic stress syndrome," Year: 99-00, After Williams: Research Assistant, McLean Hospital
Fuller, Shakierah, (03) "Vocalizations during play in lines selectively bred for infantile vocalizations," Year: 01-02
Johnson, Ellen, "Biological determinants of autism," Year: 94-95
Kajunski, Elizabeth, (98) "Modulation of the short and long-term consequences of the maternal separation by the neurosteroid allopregnanolone," Year: 97-98, After Williams: New York Medical Center
Kerns, Jennifer, (95) "Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on cold adaptation," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Resident, George Washington University Medical Center
Mehr, Seth, (96) "Fetal alcohol syndrome and thermoregulation," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Emergency Medicine Resident, Oregon Health Sciences
Moscati, Meghan, (00) "Postnatal rearing condition and the development of juvenile social behavior," Year: 99-00
Mura, James, (97) "Thermoregulation and fetal alcohol sydrome," Year: 96-97, After Williams: Research Assistant, Harvard Medical School
Nie, Rui, (05) "Rat pup vocalizations and adult line differences in the novelty suppression feeding paradigm," Year: 02-03
Rackow, Sharon, (98) "Can early stress alter the neurosteriod-GABA system in neonatal and adult rats," Year: 97-98, After Williams: University of Pennsylvania
Rosenthal, Abigail, (02) "Differential maternal behavior following social isolation," Year: 00-01, "Neonatal social isolation effects on the development of anxiety behavior in rats," Year: 99-00, After Williams: Research Assistant, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Sageser, Kristin, (04) "Changes in play behavior in rats after experiencing maternal separation," Year: 02-03, After Williams: Neuroscience Research Assistant, Albert Einstein School of Medicine
Samuels, Melody, (02) "Responses of rats selectively bred for infantultrasonic vocalizations to allopreganalone," Year: 00-01, "The effects of allopregnanalone on ultrasonic vocalizations in an animal model of depression," Year: 01-02, After Williams: Laboratory Technician, Williams College
Singer, Micah, "Effects of maternal separation stressor on the development of the active state," Year: 92-93
Stark, Alexsandra, "Neonatal social isolation effects on the development of anxiety behavior in rats," Year: 99-00
Wang, Grace, (96) "Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue," Year: 94-95, After Williams: University of New York
Wong, Alex, (99) "The behavioral and neurochemical effects of allopregnanolone on stress response in neonatal and adult rats," Year: 98-99, After Williams: Computer Programmer, Mednav.com
Zuniga, Jorge, "Effects of prenatal alcohol exposure on the developing sympathetic nervous system," Year: 92-93

Advisor: Steven J. Zottoli

Adamo, Robert, "Can regenerating retinal ganglion cells form functional synapses on a foreign muscle target?" Year: 99-00
Bentley, Adrienne, "Pathway choice by regenerating goldfish spinal neurons," Year: 92-93
Burkey, Adam, (92) "Effects of mauthner cell deletion on regenerated startle circuitry of goldfish,"
Copanas, Elizabeth, (97) "Differences in morphology imply differences in physiology for the inputs to the mauthner cell axon cap," Year: 96-97, After Williams: VISTA
Davidman, Ben, (95) "Response of crayfish to light," Year: 93-94, After Williams: Medical student, George Washington University
Easter, Joshua, "Transfection with lipofectamine and the fluorescent plasmid EYFP-N1 as a technique for analyzing regeneration of retinal ganglion cells to a foreign target in vivo," Year: 99-00
Eseh, Rosemary, (04) "Blocking telencephalon activity and electrophysicological recording," Year: 02-03, After Williams: Counselor, National Institute for People with Disabilities
Feiner, Deborah, "Long term changes in recoverd motor behavior after spinal cord injury," Year: 93-94
Hiza, Nicholas, (02) "Dye coupling evidence for gap junctions between supramedullary/dorsal neurons of the cunner, tatuogolabrus adspersus," Year: 00-01
Huang, Cynthia, "Response of central nuerons to injury in the goldfish," Year: 94-95
Katz, Benjamin, "Physiological characterization of the dorsal cell in the cunner, tautogolabrus adspersus," Year: 97-98
Kron, Michelle, (04) "Use and removal of the telencephalon in the cunner fish as a method of anethesia," Year: 02-03, After Williams: M.D./Ph.D. Program at the University of Michigan
Meyers, Jason, "Detour ahead: retinal ganglion cells directed to a foreign muscle target," Year: 96-97, "The startle response of teleost fish," Year: 94-95
Motta, Melissa, (00) "Postnatal rearing condition and the development of juvenile social behavior," Year: 99-00
Musani, Farrah, "Morphological characterization of dorsal cells in the cunner, tautogolabrus adspersus," Year: 97-98
Newman, Bridie, (95) "Changes in the startle response after selective ablation of a pair of vertebrate neurons," Year: 94-95
Nierman, Jennifer, (02) "HHMI woods-morphology of the spinomedullary neurons of the cunner," Year: 00-01, After Williams: Psychology Department, University of Pennsylvania
Parra, Georgina, "Marine biological laboratory program at woods hole," Year: 98-99
Parsons, Stephanie, (95) "The recovery of function after spinal cord crush in goldfish," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Physical Therapy Student, University of Miami
Tan, Xiao, "Physiological characterization of supermedullary/dorsal neurons of the cunner, tautogolabrus adspersus," Year: 99-00
Westbrooks, Dafina, "Nature's intricate dance: dragonfly larvaie's labial attack latency and initiation of the tadpoles startle response," Year: 99-00
Winters, D. Christopher, (95) "Changes in the startle response after selective axotomy of mauther neurons in the goldfish," Year: 94-95, "Response of crayfish to light," Year: 93-94
Wong, Michael, (96) "Pathway selection of regenerating central neurons in the goldfish," Year: 94-95, After Williams: Biology Teacher, Simming and Water Polo Coach, Hopkins School