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PhD in Neuroscience Alumni

PhD in Neuroscience alumni since 2015 and their first position upon graduation include:

2024

• Elizabeth Gordineer, PhD
  Consultant at SDLC Technologies
• Ashley Griffin, PhD
  Post Doc at Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• Allie Smith, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
• Kendra Stansak, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS
• Jake Valeri, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA

2023

• Charles Barnes, PhD
• John Aaron Howell, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• Maria Muhammad, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

2022

• Siddharth Gaikwad, PhD
  Post Doc at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

2021

• C. Austin Zamarripa, PhD
  Post Doc at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Graham Casey, PhD
  Scientist I at Frequency Therapeutics, Lexington, MA

2020

• Danielle Porter, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Redin Spann, PhD
  Post Doc at Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA
• Sydney Vita, PhD
  Post Doc at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA

2019

• Walker Wiggins, MD/PhD
  Residency in Neurology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX
• Xiao Zhang, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2018

• Cassie Chandler, PhD
  Post Doc at University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
• Lindsey Kuiper, PhD
  Post Doc at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
• David Sandlin, MD/PhD
  Residency in Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA

2017

• Drew Townsend, PhD
  Post Doc at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
• Peyton Weems, PhD
  Medical Science Liaison, Myriad Genetics
  

2016

• Nikki Beloate, PhD
  Post Doc at Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
• Martin Bohlen, PhD
  Post Doc at Duke University, Durham, NC
• Courtney Stewart, PhD
  Post Doc at Kresge Hearing Research Institute, Ann Arbor, MI
• Xu Hou, PhD
  Post Doc at Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL
• Mike Schmidt, PhD
  Research Scientist at Columbia University Medical Center, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY

2015

• Jenny Naylor, PhD
  Post Doc at FDA National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, AR
• Barak Gunter, PhD
  Post Doc at Vanderbilt Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, Nashville, TN
• Jeremy Duncan, PhD
  Post Doc at UMMC, Jackson, MS