Graduating Class of 2016

Esam Al-Shareffi
BS, Stony Brook University, 2007
MD and PhD in Biochem & Struct. Biology, 2014
Dissertation title:
The Versatile Applications of 6-Alkynyl Fucose and Other Fucose Analogs in Studying Protein Fucosylation
Mentor: Robert Haltiwanger, Biochem. & Cell Bio
Residency: Internal Medicine/CI Research, Mayo Clinic School of Grad Med Educ, MN

Trevor Griffen
BS, Brown University , 2007
MD and PhD in Neuroscience, 2014
Dissertation title:
Plasticity of cortical circuit activation within the monocular region of primary visual cortex of the rat
Mentor: Arianna Maffei, Neurobiology & Behavior
Residency: Stony Brook Teach Hospital, ABIM Research Track Internal Medicine/Cardiology, NY


Rashek Kazi
BS, Stony Brook University, 2008

MD and PhD in Neuroscience, 2014
Dissertation title:
The Mechanisms of NMDA Receptor Activation
Mentor: Lonnie Wollmuth, Neurobiology & Behavior
Residency:
John Hopkins, Internal medicine

Noah Levit

BS, Boston College, 2007
MD and PhD in Genetics, 2014
Dissertation title:
Inhibition of pathological connexin26 hemichannels implicated in keratitis-ichthyosis-deafness syndrome
Mentor: Thomas White, Physiology & Biophysics
Residency: Stony Brook Teach Hosps, NY, Medicine-Preliminary


Prem Premsrirut
BA, U of Cal., Berkeley, 2001
MD and PhD in Genetics, 2014
Dissertation title:
Spatial, temporal and reversible regulation of endogenous gene expression in vivo using RNA interference
Mentor: Scott Lowe, CSHL
Post-graduate: U. Cincinnati Medical Center, Surg-Prelim/Urology