I’ve got your qualification right here!

I just wanted to thank a few people who helped get me through the written qualifying exam experience:

Deborah: Thank you for bringing the inordinate amounts of junk food that kept me “energized” and “focused” during our journal clubs.

Libby: Thank you for coordinating the journal clubs and keeping everyone accountable for reading and presenting their papers. Also, sorry about the “Woopsy!” section.

Seth: Thank you for FACSing everything.

Thao: Thank you for the Harley Kornblum pep talk Friday morning.

Brian: Thank you for all of our power study sessions that consisted of us meeting in your “lab”, reading ESPN.com, checking our fantasy football statistics, going to InNOut for lunch, reading one or two figures of a paper, checking our fantasy football statistics, and then getting bored and going home for the night.

Nathan: Thank you for your love and kindness.

Suzie: Thank you for putting everything in perspective whenever I talk to you.

Jen B:

• Thank
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    • for
      • your
        • review
          • sheets!

And, now, the official list of papers… I know they each hold a special significant in our lives. How can we forget Pax6 or Olig1 or the MEK/ERK/RSK1/C/EBP pathway? Over the past month, these papers have grown to be a part of us. Cherish their memories always…

Permeation and Gating Residues in Serotonin Transporter

Sodium-Dependent Norepinephrine-Induced Currents in Norephinephrine-Transporter-Tranfected HEK-293 Cells Blocked by Cocaine and Antidepressants

Mutation of an Amino Acid Residue Influencing Potassium Coupling in the Glutamate Transporter GLT-1 Induces Obligate Exchange*

Neurotransmitter transport: Models in flux

Characterization of a Functional Bacterial Homologue of Sodium-dependent Neurotransmitter Transporters*

Steady States, Charge Movements, and Rates for a Cloned GABA Transporter Expressed in Xenopus Oocytes

Glial Cells Generate Neurons: the Role of the Transcription Factor Pax6

Common Developmental Requirement for Olig Function Indicates a Motor Neuron/Oligodendrocyte Connection

An Essential Role for a MEK-C/EBP Pathway during Growth Factor-Regulated Cortical Neurogenesis

Transient Notch Activation Initiates an Irreversible Switch from Neurogenesis to Gliogenesis by Neural Crest Stem Cells

Progenitor Cell Maintenance Requires Numb and Numblike During Mouse Neurogenesis

Timing of CNS Cell Generation: A Programmed Sequence of Neuron and Glial Cell Production from Isolated Murine Cortical Stem Cells

Neurogenin Promotes Neurogenesis and Inhibits Glial Differentiation by Independent Mechanisms

A PDGF-Regulated Immediate Early Gene Response Initiates Neuronal Differentiation in Ventricular Zone Progenitor Cells

Direct Neural Fate Specification from Embryonic Stem Cells: A Primitive Mammalian Neural Stem Cell Stage Acquired through a Default Mechanism

A Model for the Coupling Between Cerebral Blood Flow and Oxygen Metabolism During Neural Stimulation

Dynamics of Blood Flow and Oxygenation Changes During Brain Activation: The Balloon Model

Temporal Spatial Differences Observed by Functional MRI and Human Intraoperative Optical Imaging

Human Hippocampal Long-term Sustained Response During Word Memory Processing

Very Slow Activity Fluctuations in Monkey Visual Cortex: Implications for Functional Brain Imaging

Four facets of a single brain: behaviour, cerebral blood flow/metabolism, neuronal activity and neurotransmitter dynamics

Vascular imprints of neuronal activity: Relationships between the dynamics of cortical blood flow, oxygenation, and volume changes following sensory stimulation

An approach to probe some neural systems interaction by functional MRI at neural time scale down to milliseconds

Sustained Negative BOLD, Blood Flow and Oxygen Consumption Response and Its Coupling to the Positive Response in the Human Brain

Cellular Mechanisms of Brain Energy Metabolism and Their Relevance to Functional Brian Imaging

Dynamic Uncoupling and Recoupling of Perfusion and Oxidative Metabolism during Focal Brain Activation in Man

BOLD Based Functional MRI at 4 Tesla Includes a Capillary Bed Contribution: Echo-Planar Imaging Correlates with Pervious Optical Imagine Using Intrinsic Signals

Metabolic Anatomy of Brain: A Comparison of Regional Capillary Density, Glucose Metabolism, and Enzyme Activities

Neurophysiological Investigation of the Basis of the fMRI Signal

* Brian/Josh Quote of the Day: “I haven’t even printed out half of the papers yet.”

* Brian/Josh Quote of the Day: “I’m not going to read the rest of the systems papers. I mean, come on, I know what BOLD is.”

* Seth B. Quote of the Day: “I heard that you had to FACS something at least three times during your exam to pass.”

* Seth B. Quote of the Day: “I plan to score a High Pass with Honors Work.”

* Movie Quote of the Day: “Easy, miss. I’ve got you.”