Current Graduate Students
Travis Barr 
Hometown: Lebanon, PA
Shippensburg University, MS
Research: Peripheral Pain Mechanisms
Awards: The 2008 Dean's Certificate and Award in Recognition of
Excellence in Research
2008 Poster Day Award for Excellence
Mentor: Frank Rice, Ph.D.
Email: BarrT@mail.amc.edu
Jennie Conroy 
Hometown: Cortland Manor, NY
Research: Pain Mechanisms
Mentor: Lindsay Hough, Ph.D.
Email: ConroyJ@mail.amc.edu
Tim Harrigan 
Hometown:
Research: Redox Control of Volume-Regulated Anion Channels and
Glutamate Release in Primary Rat Microglial Cells
Mentor: Alex Mongin, Ph.D.
Email: HarrigT@mail.amc.edu
Ashley Harris 
Hometown: Eagan, MN
Research: Directed differentiation of neural stem cells.
Mentor: Sally Temple, Ph.D.
Email: HarrisA2@mail.amc.edu
Tyisha Hathorn 
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Research: Improving the efficacy of single chain intrabodies for the
treatment of Huntington's disease by assessing the
additive effects of small molecule drugs.
Mentor: Anne Messer, Ph.D.
Email: HathorT@mail.amc.edu
Willem Heydendael 
Hometown: Ossining, NY
SUNY Albany
Research: Antidepressant Regulation of HPA-relevant Factors:
Implications for Treatment Response Prediction in
Depression.
Awards: The 2008 Dean's Certificate and Leonard Procita Prize for
Excellence in Teaching
Mentor: Lauren Jacobson, Ph.D.
Email: HeydenW@mail.amc.edu
Quanzhi Hou 
Hometown: Shandong, China
Peking Union Medical College, M.S.
McGill University, Canada, M.S.
Research: Contributions of keratinocytes to sensory transduction.
Mentor: Frank Rice, Ph.D.
Email: HouQ@mail.amc.edu
Shubhada Joshi 
Hometown: Bombay, India
Univ. of California at San Diego, M.S.
University of Cincinnati, M.S.
Mentor: on Lab Rotations
Email: JoshiS@mail.amc.edu
Michael Klein 
Hometown: Port Jervis, NY
Research: The elucidation of the physiological roles of the serotonin
1E receptor and the development of novel therapeutic
drugs that act at this receptor.
Mentor: Milt Teitler, Ph.D.
Email: KleinM1@mail.amc.edu
Jessica Knight 
Hometown: Newton, NJ
Research: Drug-induced Inactivation of the h5HT7 Receptor
Mentor: Milt Teitler, Ph.D.
Email: KnightJ1@mail.amc.edu
John McMahon 
Hometown: Schenectady, NY
Mentor: on Lab Rotations
Email: McMahoJ@mail.amc.edu
Joshua Morra 
Hometown:
Research: Endocannabinoid Modulation of Mesolimbic Reward
Substrates
Mentor: Stanley Glick, Ph.D., M.D.
Email: MorraJ@mail.amc.edu
Tim Phoenix 
Hometown: Amsterdam, NY
Research: Studying how signaling pathways influence cortical
development
Awards: 2006 Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award
(NRSA)
The 2007 Dean's Certificate and Prize for Excellence in
Extramural Research Activities
Mentor: Sally Temple, Ph.D.
Email: PhoeniT@mail.amc.edu
Jim Polston 
Hometown: Columbia, Missouri
University of Missouri
Research: Contextual Cue-Induced Relapse to Drugs of Abuse
Mentor: Stanley Glick, Ph.D., M.D.
Email: PolstoJ@mail.amc.edu
Misty Richards 
Hometown: Orange County, CA
Research: The search for Schizophrenia Susceptibility Genes and
the Potential Role That They Play in Cortical Development.
Mentor: Sally Temple, Ph.D.
Awards: Fulbright Scholar
Evaluating stigma associated with schizophrenia in Japan and the US:
The Search for Key Similarities and Differences in Diagnosis and Treatment.
Email: RicharM@mail.amc.edu
Heather Rubbinaccio 
Hometown:
Research: Cues, Drugs and Conditioned Increases in Dopamine
Release in the Amygdala
Mentor: Stanley Glick, Ph.D., M.D.
Email: RubbinH1@mail.amc.edu
Qingjie Wang 
Hometown: Beijing, China
Research: Timeless is involved in Neural Stem Cell Proliferation and
Mouse Cortex Development
Mentor: Sally Temple, Ph.D.
Email: WangQ1@mail.amc.edu
