Entry Year: 1999
Graduation Year: 2007
Currently: Resident in Internal Medicine (PGY-2), Dartmouth University Medical Center
Email Address: terasaprock@gmail.com
Undergraduate: University of Texas at San Antonio, B.S. Biology:
Laboratory: Dr. Rajesh Miranda, Neurosciences and Experimental Therapeutics
Thesis: "Ethanol Sensitivity of Cortical Progenitors"
Research Interests: Fetal alcohol syndrome; neural development; applications of stem cells, particularly neural stem cells to treatment of disease; cancer

Abstracts and Presentations

• Santillano, D, Prock, TL and Miranda, RC. "Ethanol eliminates cell fate heterogeneity of multipotent cortical precursors in primary culture." Society For Neuroscience, 2003.
• Kumar, LS, Prock, TL, Camarillo, C and Miranda, RC. "Expression of the Fas/Apo-1/CD95 receptor and associated caspases with ethanol treatment in proliferating cortical precursors." Society For Neuroscience, 2003.
• Prock, TL, Kumar, LS and Miranda, RC. "Ethanol induces surface Fas/Apo-1 suicide receptor expression but suppresses expression of mRNAs for downstream caspases in embryonic cortical neurospheres." Society For Neuroscience, 2004.

Publications

• Santillano, DR, Kumar, LK ,Prock, TL, Camarillo, C, Tingling, J and Miranda, RC. "Ethanol induces cell-cycle activity and reduces stem cell heterogeneity in cerebral cortical neuroepithelial precursors." Biomed Central: Neuroscience 6: 59, 2005.
• Prock, TL and Miranda, RC. "Embryonic cerebral cortical progenitors are resistant to apoptosis, but increase expression of suicide receptor DISC-complex genes and suppress autophagy following ethanol exposure."  Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 31:694-703, 2007.

Awards

• NIH Individual Research Training Grant NIAAA F31-1 F31 AA015232, "The effects of alcohol on cell fate heterogeneity".