People / Graduate Students

Joshua Cordeira

I was a 2005 graduate of Stonehill College where I majored in Biology and minored in Psychology. Upon graduation, I worked as a research assistant/technician in the laboratory of Robert McCarley, MD and Robert Strecker,PhD investigating the behavioral, anatomical, and pharmacological effects of sleep fragmentation in rodents.  As a first year Neuroscience student at Tufts, I have rotated under the tutelage of Robert Blaustein MD/PhD, Alan Kopin MD, Janis Lem PhD, and Maribel Rios PhD.  Within these respective rotations, I have had a chance to study potassium channel structure/function in Xenopus eggs, feeding and fat in Drosophila, visual transduction in the mouse, and neurotrophic function in the mouse brain.