Robert Carrera - Bio-X Undergraduate Fellow
Supported by: anonymous donor
Mentor: James Chang, Professor of Surgery (Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery) and Alesha Castillo, Assistant Professor of Surgery
Dr. Robert Dodd received his medical degree from the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he also earned a PhD in Neurosciences from the Department of Neurobiology. His neurosurgery training also took place at Stanford, where he recently completed an endovascular fellowship. His research interests have been in cerebral blood vessel reactivity and stroke. Dr.
Dr. Robert Hawkins is interested in the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to flexibly communicate, collaborate, and coordinate with one another in social interactions. He received his PhD in Psychology from Stanford University in 2019 and was a C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute prior to starting as an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Stanford in 2024.
Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. After graduating from Harvard College he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1983 from Stanford University School of Medicine. Over the ensuing 6 years he completed residency training in psychiatry at Stanford and 4 years of postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Home Department: Chemistry
Faculty Advisor: Steven G. Boxer
Talk Title: DNA-mediated fusion between small vesicles and a planar tethered bilayer patch
Event: Biophysical Society Meeting 2012