Two Bendlin lab members earned their PhDs last month after they defended their theses in virtual dissertation defense presentations. Both Jack Hunt and Nick Vogt are in the University of Wisconsin Medical Scientist Training Program, which provides integrated graduate training in scientific research and clinical medicine, leading to a combined MD-PhD degree.
Jack Hunt
"Using Fragile X Syndrome Stem Cells as a Drug Discovery Platform and Investigating the Role of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Neurodegeneration and Cognitive Decline"
Jack Hunt performed his dissertation research in two distinct fields in the labs of Barbara Bendlin, PhD, in the Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (ADRC) and Xinyu Zhao, PhD, in the Waisman Center at University of Wisconsin–Madison. In the ADRC, Hunt studied the connections between neighborhood social and economic context, neurodegeneration and cognitive decline in older adults. He completed his PhD in the Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Hunt will return to his final year of medical school before beginning a residency program in psychiatry.
Read about his study “Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with cerebral and hippocampal volume."
Nick Vogt
"Microbes and microstructure: Using emerging technologies to better understand Alzheimer's disease"
Nick Vogt has been a graduate student trainee in the Wisconsin ADRC for three years, working in the lab of Barbara Bendlin, PhD, where he studied the gut microbiome in Alzheimer's disease as well as advanced brain imaging techniques. Vogt earned his PhD in Neuroscience. He will return to medical school and apply for internal medicine residency programs in the fall.
Vogt was a guest on the "Dementia Matters" podcast episode "Connecting the Gut Microbiome to Alzheimer's Disease," in which he talked about his research looking at the gut microbiome for clues about Alzheimer's disease.
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