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Grass Fellows
Nine scientists participated in the 2002 Grass Fellowship Program in Neuroscience at the Marine Biological
Laboratory. The program is sponsored by The Grass Foundation and offers independent research opportunities
to young neuroscientists. The 2002 program was directed by Dr. Susan R. Barry of Mount Holyoke
College. Dr. Melissa Ann Vollrath of Baylor College of Medicine was the program's Associate Director.
Rooma Desai, Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine,
"Isolation of K' Currents Underlying the 'Chopper
Response' of the Principal Cells of Lateral Superior
Olive (LSO)"
Sunil Gandhi, The Salk Institute, "Evanescent Wave
Microscopy of Single Vesicle Recycling in Goldfish
Retinal Bipolar Terminals"
Gonzalo Garcia de Polavieja, Ph.D., UCLA School
of Medicine, "Behavioral Algorithm and Circuitry
for Visual Motion Detection in the Leech"
Dima Rinberg, Ph.D., Bell Laboratories Lucent
Technologies, "Optical Recording of Multineuron
Activity Using Ballistic Delivery of Voltage Sensitive
Dyes"
Matthias Gruhn, Ph.D., Cornell University,
"Correlation of Extracellular Nerve Recordings
and Behavioral Activity in Live Crayfish Using
Implantable Electrodes and High-Speed
Video Technology"
Beate Mittmann, Institut fur Biologic, "The
Development of the Nervous System in the
Horseshoe Crab Limulus po/yphemus (Chemicerata,
Ziphosura) and its Implication for Arthropod
Relationships"
Adrian Rodriguez-Contreras, Ph.D., University of
California, Davis, "Intrinsic Properties, Distribution
and Morphology of Inhibitory Neurons in the
Midbrain Auditory Pathway of Chicken"
Michael S. Smotherman, Ph.D., UCLA, "Descending
Control of Chromatophore Motoneurons in the
Cephalopod Brain"
Damian G. Wheeler, McGill University,
"Multiprotein Complex Signaling from Synapse to
Nucleus"
Limulus centra/ nervous system, Beate Mittmann