MLAS Graduates

Class of 2022

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Ina Lee, BS, MS

Currently

Medical Student @ Vanderbilt Medical School

Thesis

Testing new  behavioral and viral tracer techniques in a rodent model of spinal injury to characterize changes in function and spinal circuitry.

Outstanding Research Proposal Award

Characterization of dorsal horn circuitry following cervical deafferentation in rats and non-human primates.

Macarena Martinez Rey, BS, MS

Thesis

Cerebellar memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease.

Society for Neuroscience Presentation 2022

Martinez-Rey M, Jaybal S, Raymond J.  2022  Cerebellar memory deficits in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease. [Poster] Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, 12-16 November, San Diego.

Wenqi Song, BS, MS

Currently

Research Associate II @ Senti Bioscience, S. San Francisco, California

Thesis

Characterization of effect of enterovirus D68 in 129S2/Sv mice deficient in IFN-alpha/beta and/or IFN-gamma receptor.

Juliann (Juju) Hallum, BS, MS

Currently

Student, UC-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Veterinary Scientist Training Program (VSTP; Combined DVM/PhD Program)

Thesis

Characterizing the effect of fixation type and fixation time on the tinctorial properties of histochmistry and immunohistochemistry (IHC) on different tissue types.

Outstanding Research Proposal Award

Characterizing the supportive connective tissue scaffolding in the liver, kidney, and heart of common laboratory animal species.

Senior Spotlight; Juju Hallum '21

Tanya Watarastaporn, BS, MS

Currently

Medical Student @ Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser School of Medicine

Thesis

Studies of C57BL/6J mice deficient in receptors for interferon α/β and –γ as a model for EV-D68 acute flaccid myelitis.

Updated June 12, 2023