DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSIOLOGY
Program in Molecular, Cellular and Systems Physiology

1986 -2005

* William B. Archey

Ph.D. awarded:2002
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate College: Univ. of Vermont, B.S. Elect. Engineering; MA - International Relations - Vrije Univ/Boston Univ
Advisor: Dr. Paul Guyre
Research Advisor: Bradley Arrick, Oncology Div., Dept. of Medicine
Thesis Title: The Role of BRCA1 in Estrogen Receptor-alpha Regulation in Breast Cancer

* Joanne M. Bates

Ph.D. awarded:1999
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate College: R.N./B.S.N., University of Mass. at Lowell
M.S., Boston College
Advisor: Dr. Valerie Anne Galton
Thesis Title: Effects of selenium deficiency on deiodinase expression and thyroid hormone economy in the rat during development

* Cassandra L. Bevan

Ph.D. awarded : 2004
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Allegheny College, Meadville, PA.
Advisor: Leslie P. Henderson
Thesis title: The Effects of Endocrine Disruptors on the Development of Xenopus Embryos
Postdoctoral position: University of Colorado, Pueblo.

* Wing-Tai Savio Cheng

Ph.D. awarded:1986
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: University of Wisconsin, Green Bay
Advisor: William G. North
Thesis title: Neurohypophysial Function During Acute Osmotic Stimulation in Rats: Role of Vasopressin in Regulation of Blood Pressure and Oxytocin Release
Postdoctoral position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alabama in Birmingham

* Margaret Crane-Godreau

Ph.D. awarded:2004
Undergraduate college: University of Vermont
Advisor: Charles R. Wira
Thesis title: Epithelial cell release of MIP3a, TNFa and TGFb in response to Escherichia coli, Lactobacillus rhamnosus and pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMP) and the influence of estradiol on cytokine release.
Post-doctoral position: Immunology, Dartmouth Medical School.

* Carlos L. Cream

Ph.D. awarded:1999
M.D. awarded from Dartmouth Medical School: 2003
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Rutgers
Advisor: Eugene E. Nattie
Thesis title: The effect of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in the retrotrapazoid nucleus

* Deanna L. Denault

Ph.D. awarded: 1998
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
U. Mass., B.S. 1984; Springfield College, M.Ed. 1985
Advisor: Aniko Fejes-Toth
Research: Identification and characterization of aldosterone responsive genes within the cortical collecting duct.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH

* Jerod S. Denton

Ph.D. awarded: 2002
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: University of Central Arkansas, BS and MS in Biology
Advisor: James C. Leiter
Thesis Title: Ionic basis of neuronal CO2/H+ chemosensitivity in the pulmonate snail, Helix aspersa
Postdoctoral Position: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

* Kenneth H. Ely

Ph.D. awarded: 2001
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Kalamazoo Valley Community College, A.S., 1981 Western Michigan University, B.S. 1988
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Research Advisor: Lloyd Kasper, Medicine/Microbiology
Thesis Title: Methods for Prevention of Oral Toxoplasma gondii Infection-Induced Hyperimmune Response in Mice
Postdoctoral Position: Trudeau Institute, Saranac Lake, NY

* Joseph S. Erlichman

Ph.D. awarded: 1994
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: University of Colorado
Previous graduate degree: University of Colorado
Advisor: James C. Leiter
Thesis title: CO2 Chemoreceptor Function in the Pulmonate Snail
Postdoctoral position: Wright State University

* Neil A. Fanger

Ph.D. awarded: 1996
Undergraduate college: Denison University
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Dendritic Cell Fcg Receptor Expression and Function.
Postdoctoral position: Immunex, Seattle, WA

* Andrew S. Friedmann

Ph.D. awarded: 1993
Undergraduate college: Hamilton College
Advisor: William G. North
Thesis title: Vasopressin gene expression by non-neuronal cells: Production in the gastrointestinal system and neoplasms of the lung.
Postdoctoral position: Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Hygiene

* Man-Lung Fung

Ph.D. awarded: 1993
Undergraduate college: National Taiwan Normal University
Advisor: Walter M. St. John
Thesis title: The functional roles of the rostral pons in the control of respiration in mammals.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Pediatrics, Section of Respiratory Medicine, Yale University

* Matthew J. Gdovin

Ph.D. awarded: 1995
Undergraduate college: U. of Texas, San Antonio, B.S. 1990
Advisor: Donald Bartlett, Jr.
Thesis title: The role of the micturition reflex in the control of breathing.
Postdoctoral position: Postdoc. Fellow with J. Remmers, U. of Calgary

* Marie T. Girard

Ph.D. awarded: 1986
Undergraduate college: University of Vermont
Previous graduate degree: Dartmouth College
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Glurococorticoids affect the action of gamma interferon on human monocytes.
Postdoctoral position: Research Associate, Eye Research Institute of Retina Foundation and Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School

* Katharine A. (Hintz) Goldstein

Ph.D. awarded: 2003
Undergraduate college: Hamilton College, Syracuse, NY
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre

Katharine is a Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation.

* Cheryl A. Guyre

Ph.D. Awarded: 2000
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Tufts University, B.S. 1993
Physiology Advisor: Allan U. Munck
Research Advisor: Michael Fanger, Microbiology, DMS
Thesis Title: Fc receptor-targeted Green Fluorescent Protein: Implications for Antigen Presentation
Postdoctoral Position: Department of Surgery, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, NH

* Jiong-Ming Hu

Ph.D. awarded: 1995
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Tongji Medical University
Advisor: Allan U. Munck
Thesis title: Glucocorticoid receptor phosphorylation through the cell cycle.
Postdoctoral position: Medical Resident, Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY

* Li-Ming Hu

Ph.D. awarded: 1993
Undergraduate college: Shanghai Second Medical College
Advisor: Allan U. Munck
Thesis title: Glucocorticoid receptors in ATP-depleted WCL2 cells: Dephosphorylation, loss of hormone binding, nuclear unextractability and dissociation from HSP90.
Postdoctoral position: Medical Resident, Metrowest Medical Center,
Framingham Union Hospital, Framingham, MA

* Qin Huang

Ph.D. awarded: 1990
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Nanjing Medical College
Previous graduate degree: Shanghai First Medical College
Advisor: Walter M. St. John
Thesis title: Influence of the infracerebellar nucleus on respiratory activity.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

* Jonathan T. Huntington, III

Ph.D. awarded: 2005
Undergraduate college: University of Maine
Advisor: Constance E. Brinkerhoff
Thesis title: FGF signalling and collegenase-1 expression in invasive melanoma cells.
Current Position: third year medical student at Dartmouth Medical School

Jon is a Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation.

* Robert L. Joyner

Ph.D. awarded: 1998
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Salisbury State Univ. B.S. 1991
Advisor: James C. Leiter
Thesis title: Hemodynamic effects of an intravenous infusion of a volatile vasodilator.
Postdoctoral position: Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Health Sciences.

* Chunlei Liu

Ph.D. awarded: 1996
Undergraduate college: University of Science & Technology of China @ Hefei
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Modulating antigen presentation by Fcg receptor-targeting and glucocorticoids.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School

* Kenneth A. Longo

Ph.D. awarded: 1998
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: University of New Hampshire
Advisor: William North
Thesis title: Cloning and expression of HVACN, a cullin protein from small cell carcinoma
Postdoctoral position: University of Michigan

* Joseph E. Melton

Ph.D. awarded: 1981
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: B.S., University of Oklahoma
Advisor: Eugene E. Nattie
Thesis title: Ionic and mechanical responses of the rat brain to acute dilutional hyponatremia
Postdoctoral position: Dept. of Physiology, Rutgers University, NJ

* Dirk B. Mendel

Ph.D. awarded: 1986
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Stanford University
Advisor: Allan U. Munck
Thesis title: Structure and function of cytosolic glucocorticoid receptors in rodent lymphoid cells: Studies of receptor stability, subunit composition, and phosphorylation.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA

*Michelle L. Messier

Ph.D. awarded:2003
Undergraduate college: Mount Holyoke, Biology, 1998
Advisor: Eugene Nattie
Thesis title: The role of medullary raphe serotonergic neurons in central chemoreception during sleep and wakefulness in newborn piglets: relevance to the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale University School of Medicine

 Michelle is a Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation.

* Joel T. Moncur

Ph.D. awarded:1999

M.D. awarded, Dartmouth Medical School, 2001
Undergraduate college: U. C. Santa Barbara
Advisor: William Kinlaw (Paul Guyre)
Thesis title: The "Spot 14" gene resides on the telomeric end of the 11q13 amplicon and is expressed in lipogenic breast cancers: implications for control of tumor metabolism
Postgraduate position: Resident in Medicine at Walter Reed Hospital

* Peter M. Morganelli

Ph.D. awarded: 1988
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Clark University
Previous graduate degree: Miami University of Ohio
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Glucocorticoids and interferons regulate the expression of a novel human mono-nuclear phagocyte-specific antigen.
Postdoctoral position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Dartmouth Medical School

* Bryan D. Moyer

Ph.D. awarded:1999
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: U. C. San Diego
Advisor: Bruce Stanton
Thesis title: CFTR trafficking and polarization in epithelial cells
Postdoctoral position: Scripps Research Institute, Department of Cell Biology, La Jolla, CA

* Sholeen T. (Smith) Nett

Ph.D. awarded:1999
M.D. awarded, Dartmouth Medical School, 2001
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Seattle Univ.
Advisor: Leslie Henderson
Thesis title: Sex and region specific differences in GABAA-receptor function in neurons of the hypothalamus and forebrain
Postgraduate position: Resident in Pediatrics, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

* Lyn Oligino

Ph.D. awarded: 2005
Undergraduate college: University of Connecticut
Advisor: William G. North
Thesis title: Identification and characterization of novel small peptide ligands to breast cancer target molecules
Post-doctoral position: University of Vermont

* Luying Pan

Ph.D. awarded: 1989
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Shanghai Second Medical College
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Regulation of human type I Fcg receptor by interferon and dexamethasone.
Postdoctoral position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School

* Kevin E. Rist

Ph.D. awarded: 1987
M.D. awarded, Dartmouth Medical School, 1985
Undergraduate college: Dartmouth College
Advisor: J. Andrew Daubenspeck
Thesis title: Respiratory control and mechanics in wakefulness and non-rapid eye movement sleep in normal humans.
Postdoctoral position: Cardiology Fellow, University of Minnesota School of Medicine

* Douglas H. Robinson, Jr.

Ph.D. awarded: 1986
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Arizona State University
Advisor: Bruce A. Stanton
Thesis title: The ventral skin of Rana catesbeiana: Studies on epidermal morphology and characteristics of the Na+ pump during metamorphosis.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Alabama in Birmingham

* Marcie A. Roche

Ph.D. awarded:2004
Undergraduate college: Emory
Advisor: Jeffery Dunn

* Erik M. Schwiebert

Ph.D. awarded: 1993
Undergraduate college: Grinnell College
Advisor: Bruce A. Stanton
Thesis title: Regulation of epithelial chloride channels: Implications for cell volume regulation and cystic fibrosis.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine

* George I. Shields

Ph.D. awarded: 1986
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Fairfield University
Previous graduate degree: University of Nevada
Advisor: Heinz Valtin
Thesis title: Intramembranous particle clusters and cytoplasmic vesicles in mice with nephrogenic defects of urinary concentration.
Postdoctoral position: Instructor, Department of Biology, U.S.A.F. Academy, Pueblo, CO

* James D. Stoehr

Ph.D. awarded: 1993
Undergraduate college: University of Pittsburgh
Advisor: William G. North
Thesis title: The neuromodulatory influence of vasopressin on fear conditioning and spatial learning.
Postdoctoral position: Arizona Research Laboratories, Division of Neural Systems, Memory & Aging Tucson, AZ

* Timothy H. Sulahian

Ph.D. awarded: 2003
Undergraduate college: Calvin College
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Investigation of the human monocyte receptors CD163 and CD64
Post-doctoral Position: Harvard School of Public Health Harvard Medical School

Timothy is a Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation.

* Natalie C. (Rizzo) Taylor

Ph.D. awarded: 2005
Undergraduate college: Dickinson College
Advisor: Eugene E. Nattie
Thesis title: Modulation of the hypercapnic and hypoxic ventilatory responses by the medullary region in conscious rats.

Natalie is a Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation.

* Katherine S. (Grant) Tschudy

Ph.D. awarded:2004
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Hamilton College
Advisor: Charles R. Wira
Thesis title: Influence of stromal cells on uterine epithelial cell function: direct and indirect effects of estradiol on epithelial cell integrity and cytokine release
Postdoctoral position: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.

* Barbara A. Vance

Ph.D. awarded: 1992
Undergraduate college: Ohio State University Previous graduate degree: Ohio State University
Advisor: Paul M. Guyre
Thesis title: Functional importance of human Fcg receptor polymorphism.
Postdoctoral position: University Of California, San Diego VA Medical Center, Division of Nephrology San Diego, CA

* Susan L. Whittemore

Ph.D. awarded: 1991
Undergraduate college: College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Previous graduate degree: Utah State University
Advisor: Donald Bartlett, Jr.
Thesis title: In vitro and in vivo assessment of endothelium-derived relaxing factor during pregnancy in the rat.
Postdoctoral position: Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School

* B. Stanley Willenbring

Ph.D. awarded: 1994
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: University of Maine, Presque Isle
Advisor: James C. Leiter
Thesis title: An evaluation of adrenergic and sympathetic influences modulating behavior in an animal model of neuropathic pain.
Postdoctoral position: Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Department of Pharmacology/Physiology Tulsa, OK

* Sandra K. Leeper-Woodford

Ph.D. awarded: 1987
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: Ohio University Previous graduate degree: University of Wisconsin
Advisor: Donald Bartlett, Jr.
Thesis title: Effects of anoxia on phagocytic function in the pulmonary alveolar macrophage.
Postdoctoral position: Medical College of Virginia Virginia Commonwealth University

* Paul Yang

Ph.D. awarded:2004
M.D. in progress at Dartmouth Medical School
Fellow of the Albert J. Ryan Foundation
Undergraduate college: University of Washington, Seattle
Advisor: Leslie P. Henderson
Thesis title: Mechanisms of Anabolic Androgenic Steroid Modulation of GABA-A Receptors