Handbook Updates: June 2026
June 16, 2026
Clarifications and Corrections: Section: Employment InformationSubsection: Financial: Workload expectationNote: Clarified credits and FTE work expectations as a baseline for advising and workload conversations. Section: Year 2+Subsection: Supervisory Committee - Members of the Supervisory CommitteeNote: Clarified that the supervisory committee is composed of faculty selected by the student in consultation with their dissertation advisor. Removed language indicating formal approval by GPN Directors,…
GPN Newsletter: Summer 2026
July 13, 2026
Community Updates We are excited to share the successful defenses of the following doctoral candidates in the Winter and Spring Quarters of 2026: Cassidy Burke, PhD (Lab of Dr. Garret Stuber), dissertation titled, “Multimodal interrogation of cell type-specific transcriptional states and brain-wide activity profiles in maladaptive opioid use” Gillian Grennan, PhD (Lab of Dr. Angela Fang),…
GPN Newsletter: Winter 2026
January 5, 2026
Community Updates We are excited to share the successful defenses of the following doctoral candidates in the Summer and Fall Quarters of 2025: Mollie Bernstein, PhD (Lab of Dr. Larry Zweifel), dissertation titled, “The role of transient receptor potential canonical type 6 (TRPC6) channels in regulating ventral tegmental area dopamine neuron physiology and function” Leila…
GPN Newsletter: Summer 2025
July 10, 2025
Community Updates Our warmest congratulations to our doctoral candidates who successfully defended their dissertations during the Winter and Spring Quarters of 2025: Joe Voth, PhD (Lab of Dr. Dirk Keene), dissertation titled “Assessing whether human oligodendrocytes go senescent: a cell culture and transcriptomic interrogation of human white matter” Sujin Byeon, PhD (Lab of Dr. Smita…