Hunter College, Biopsychology Doctoral Program |
 Anika
McPhie
amcphie@hunter.cuny.edu
Anika is a Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses
on the changing role of intracellular signaling
cascades in opiate tolerance and withdrawal during
development. She has identified differences function
of PKC between infant and adult animals following
chronic morphine treatment. |
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Annie is a Ph.D. candidate whose research focuses
on the differences in the mechanisms of action
of methadone and its isomers. She has found that
in very young infant rats, the Racemic form of
methadone is more effective as an analgesic drug
than would be predicted on the basis of the effects
of the d- and l- isomers. |
Developmental Psychobiology, New York State Psychiatric
Institute |
 Puhong
Gao, Ph.D.
pgao@hunter.cuny.edu
Puhong is a postdoctoral fellow whose work has
focused on bioinformatics and the analysis of
microarray data in the developmental study of
gene expression changes as a consequent of injury,
opiate tolerance or withdrawal. His earlier work
focused on sensory motor integration and the effects
of deafferentation of the whisking system on neuroplasticity. |
|  Shaoning
Wang
sw6@columbia.edu
Wang is a Research Scientist who has been involved
in all aspects of the work in this lab for the
last for the past 13 years. He currently is responsible
for all the PCR work and supervises the anatomical
studies.
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|  Jianxin
Cheng
Cheng is a valued Research Assistant whose careful
work makes her the researcher of choice for any
method that requires precision. She has been involved
for the past 10 years in behavioral, anatomical
and genetic studies and currently is in charge
of the preparatory work for the microarray studies. |
 Derek
Narendra
dpn3@columbia.edu
Derek is a recent addition to the lab working
as a Research Technician for the year while he
prepares for medical school application. He is
responsible for the day to day work on the in
situ hybridzation studies.
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Ramkumarie
(Annie) Baliram