About Professor Hume
Richard Hume grew up in Youngstown Ohio, and Fair Lawn New Jersey
He was an undergraduate at Wesleyan University and got his PhD at Stanford University
He did his postdoctoral training at Washington University School of Medicine
He has done sabbaticals at the Salk Institute, The University of Chicago and Columbia University
He served as Director of the University of Michigan Interdepartmental Neuroscience PhD program from 1999-2003, as Chair of the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from 2003-2008 and as Director of the Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience since 2013.
Current Trainees
Research Assistant
Former PhD Students and Current Positions
Beverly Clendening, Ph.D. 1990, Professor Emeritus, Hofstra University
Steven Thomas, MD/PhD. 1991, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Xi (Erick) Lin, Ph.D. (Co-sponsor) 1993, Professor, Director, Hearing Research Laboratories Emory University
Hui Liu, Ph.D., 1997, (Subsequently received MBA from University of Michigan)– Chief Financial Officer, Merus B.V.
Zhen Zhou, Ph.D. 1997, Biotechnology Company, Shanghai China
Cheryl McCullumsmith MD/PhD 1999, Professor and Chair of Psychiatry, University of Toledo Medical School
J. Dylan Clyne, Ph.D. 2002, Dean, School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Biology, Post University, Waterbury CT
Sean Low- (Co-sponsored with John Kuwada) PhD. 2008 –Deceased- At the time of his death his title was Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biological Sciences, Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan
Shlomo Dellal- Ph.D. 2008 Research Scientist, New York University Medical School
Rachel Tittle- Ph.D. 2008 Research Associate at Finnell Birth Defects Research Laboratory University of Texas, Austin
Sean Friday– Ph.D. 2008 Self employed
Sukanya Punthambaker Ph.D. 2012- Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School
Mingxue Gu (Co-sponsored trainee of Haoxing Xu) Ph.D. 2020 – Postdoctoral Fellow, HHMI Baylor University Medical School
Ce Wang (Co-sponsored student of Haoxing Xu) Ph.D. 2020 – Staff Scientist AbbVie
Former Postdoctoral Fellows and current positions
Marcia Honig –Professor, University of Tennessee Medical School
James Walker – Associate Professor, Purdue University
Stephen Moorman – Professor and Chair, Department of Anatomy, Tauro College of Osteopathic Medicine
John Burrill- Research scientist, Incyte Genomics
David Wells – left Assistant Professorship at Yale University to move to prep school teaching at The Doane Stuart School, Rensselaer, NY
Heejeong Kim- Research Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska
Luciano Moffatt- Research Investigator, University of Buenos Aires
Naomi Nagaya- Research Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University
Louis St. Amant- left Assistant Professorship at University of Montreal for family reasons
Ping Li (Cosponsored trainee with Haoxing Xu)
Meiqin Hu (Cosponsored trainee with Haoxing Xu)
