UC Irvine Medical Scientist Training Program

Allyson Howard

Undergraduate	Stanford University
Year of Entry into UCI MSTP	1999
Graduation Year	2008
Department	Anatomy and Neurobiology
Ph.D Advisor	Ivan Soltesz
Thesis	Intrinsic and Synaptic Changes in Mossy Cells of the Dentate Gyrus after Experimental Head Trauma
Postgraduate Training	Stanford University - Neurological Surgery Resident
Last Known Position	Stanford University - Neurological Surgery Resident
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Research Interests	Post-traumatic epilepsy, network models of the hippocampus

PUBLICATIONS

Ratzliff AH, Santhakumar V, Howard A, Soltesz I, Mossy cells in epilepsy: rigor mortis or vigor mortis? . Trends Neurosci.(2002), Mar;25(3):140-4.
Howard A, Tamas G, Soltesz I, Lighting the chandelier: new vistas for axo-axonic cells. Trends in Neurosciences(2005), Jun;28(6):310-6.
Ratzliff AH, Howard AL, Santhakumar V, Osapay I, Soltesz I, Rapid deletion of mossy cells does not result in a hyperexcitable dentate gyrus: implications for epileptogenesis. J Neurosci(2004), Mar 3;24(9):2259-69.
Foldy C, Aradi I, Howard A, Soltesz I, Diversity beyond variance: modulation of firing rates and network coherence by GABAergic subpopulations. Eur J Neurosci(2004), Jan;19(1):119-30.