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Student Chapter Co-Director: Ashley Brady
Ashley Brady received her B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Centre College in 1996 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmacology at Vanderbilt University in 2003. As a recipient of the Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French Embassy, she spent a year as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Drs. Jean-Philippe Pin and Laurent Prezeau at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Montpellier, France. In 2005, she returned to Vanderbilt’s Dept. of Pharmacology where she continues to pursue her interest in G protein coupled receptor biology and drug discovery as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Jeff Conn.
Student Chapter Co-Director: Caroline Hanson
Caroline Hanson is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University. Currently she pursues a research program that combines the study of the regulation of gene expression and tumor biology. Caroline received her graduate degree in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental Biology and Genetics at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and her bachelors of science degree in Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Student Chapter Co-Director: Nicole Speed
Nicole Speed is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Pharmacology program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Her research focuses on dopamine systems in the brain and the pharmacology of drugs of addiction, such as amphetamine. Nicole received her B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from University of Albany, and is originally from upstate New York. She is also an officer in the Pharmacology Graduate Student Association.
Chief Technical Officer: Soumyadeep Dey
Soumyadeep Dey is a Doctoral candidate in Cancer Biology program at Vanderbilt University. His main area of research is hematological malignancy and how oncogenic transcription factors function in myeloid cell populations. Prior to joining the PhD program he received his MS in Pharmacology from the University of Toledo and his BS in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Jadavpur University, India.
Newsletter Editor: Judsen Schneider
Judsen Schneider is a fourth year graduate student (PhD candidate) at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. His research uses C. elegans, a tiny soil nematode, to investigate the genetics of neural specificity. In other words, he asks the question, "What genes are involved in making a functional neuronal circuit?" Judsen recieved his BA in Biology from Kalamazoo College in 2003.
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