Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Research Interest: Optogenetics to study the roles of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) in mitochondrial physiology and stress signaling.
Graduate Students
Research Interest: Optogenetic control of mitochondria to investigate the role of protonmotive force in neuronal physiology
Research Interest: The effects of pathological tau uptake by astrocytes on mitochondrial function and the impact on their ability to support neuron health
Research Interest: The effect of mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress on tau pathology.
Alumni
Arsalan Farooqi – Technical Associate; currently, medical student
Brandon Berry - Graduate Student; currently, postdoctoral research fellow
Fernando Escobedo - Technical Associate
Aksana Baldzizhar - Technical Associate
Anmol Almast - Undergraduate Student; currently, medical student.
Laura Bahr - Technical Associate; currently, graduate student
Nick Philip - Undergraduate Student; currently, medical student.
Adam Trewin - Post-doctoral Fellow; currently postdoctoral research fellow
Alicia Wei - Undergraduate Student; currently, graduate student
Madeline O’Connell – Undergraduate Student
Tyrone Nieves – Undergraduate Student; currently physician assistant student
Thinh Le – Undergraduate Student; currently Medical student
Abbey Kampel – Undergraduate Student; currently Graduate student
Lizbeth De la Rosa - Undergraduate Student; currently clinical research coordinator
John Onukwufor – Post-doctoral Fellow; currently tenure-track assistant professor
Jacob Horn – Technical Associate; currently graduate student
Wilson Peng – undergraduate student; currently in the Onukwufor lab