Mentor: Lucy Liaw | Thesis Topic: Perivascular Adipose Tissue, Vascular Biology
Ph.D. Interdisciplinary, 2008
Thesis: Transcriptional alterations during mammary tumor progression in mice and humans
Biomedical Sciences
MaineHealth Institute for Research (MHIR)
Mentor: Clifford Rosen | Thesis Topic: Skeletal Metabolism, Bone Marrow, and Hormones
Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Kerry Tucker | Thesis Topics: Cilia, Development, and Disease
Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Voot Yin | Thesis Topics: Cardiac and Appendage Regeneration
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2012
Thesis: Nanoscale imaging of antiviral innate immunity in the zebrafish
Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: James Coffman | Thesis Topics: Chronically Elevated Cortisol, Signaling
cell signaling, Immunology/Inflammation/Hematology, zebrafish
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2013
yan.gong@childrenshospital.org
Thesis: Roles of Sprouty in endothelial cells during angiogenesis
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2012
Thesis: Cell-matrix adhesion in muscle development and disease
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2017
Thesis: CGRP effects on LP-BM5 infection in glial cells
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2013
Thesis: Low-dose arsenic exposure alters lipid metabolism and cell cycle regulation in two model species, Danio rerio (zebrafish) and Mus musculus (mouse)
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2014
Thesis: Intersection of renal peritubular cells, mitogen activated kinases, and chronic kidney disease
Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Geoffrey Ganter | Thesis Topics: nociceptor transcriptional/translational responses
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2019
Mentor: Alan Rosenwasser | Thesis Topics: Alcohol Withdrawal, Genetics
addiction, behavioral genetics, circadian biology, Neuroscience
Ph.D. Biomedical Science, 2019
Mentor: Tamara King | Thesis Topics: Chronic Pain
central sensitization, nocicieption, optogenetics, pain, somatosensory, therapeutics
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2013
Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
Thesis: The role of sef (similar expression to FGF genes) in skeletal development and bone homeostasis
Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Greg Cox | Thesis Topics: Neuromuscular Degeneration
Genetics, Genomics, SMARD1, Spinal Muscular Atrophy with Respiratory Distress, T32 Fellow
Ph.D. Biomedical Sciences, 2011
Thesis: Roles of matrix metalloproteinase-11 and tissue inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinase-2B in fibronectin degradation during zebrafish development
Biomedical Sciences
Mentor: Kristy Townsend | Thesis Topics: Energy Balance, Stimuli