Trainees
Post-Doctoral Associates/Fellows and Graduate Students
Postdoctoral Scholar
Telias Lab
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carney Lab
Graduate Student
Haptics Lab
Research Interest:
Abnormalities in the sensorimotor network in dystonia
Graduate Student
Sarkar Lab
Sobolewski Lab
Research Interest:
Understanding the effects of occupational metal exposure on astrocytic senescence and neurodegenerative disease
Email EstebanAvendaño-Fernandez
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Translational cognitive neurophysiology, aging and neuroinflammation. Clinical applications of cognitive neurophysiological modulation from cognitive-motor interaction. Understanding neurodevelopment to investigate its clinical applicability in healthy aging
Graduate Student
Smith Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating norepinephrine's role in modulating astrocyte and neuron communication
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Understanding underlying neurophysiological mechanisms of sensory processing in autism spectrum disorder and related neurodevelopmental disorders
Graduate Student
ZVR Lab
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Studying neurophysiology and cognitive-motor interactions as biomarkers to determine early risk for Parkinson's Disease.
Postdoctoral Associate
Patterson Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the neural mechanisms of visual processing and selective attention
Graduate Student
Gail Johnson Lab
Wojtovich Lab
Research Interest:
The effects of pathological tau uptake by astrocytes on mitochondrial function and the impact on their ability to support neuron health
Graduate Student
Patterson Lab
Research Interest:
Understanding the role of rare retinal ganglion cells in primate foveal vision
Graduate Student
O'Banion-Olschowka Labs
Research Interest:
Unraveling microglial-intrinsic sex-specific properties and their contribution to Alzheimer's disease pathology
Graduate Student
McGregor Lab
Research Interest:
I am interested in neuroimmunology, particularly how the immune and nervous systems interact within the visual system. My goal is to explore neuroimmunomodulatory approaches that improve cell-based therapies for retinal regeneration and restoring vision
Graduate Student
Fiebelkorn Lab
Postdoctoral Associate
Majewska Lab
Research Interest:
The effects of developmental alcohol exposure on glia and neurons
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Relationship between chronic pain and psychopathology in individuals with ASD and ADHD
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Wang Lab
Research Interest:
Exploring the neurophysiologic and neuropathologic basis of photophobia in a rare lysosomal storage disorder.
Graduate Student
Smith Lab
Graduate Student
Meeks Lab
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Neuronal Density in Autism
Postdoctoral Associate
Meeks Lab
Research Interest:
Effects of traumatic brain injury on olfactory circuits
Graduate Student
ZVR Lab
Graduate Student
Gail Johnson Lab
Research Interest:
The role of transglutaminase 2 in mediating the response of astrocytes to injury and their ability to support neuron survival and neurite outgrowth
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Age-related histological and neurophysiological changes of auditory processing in a knockout mouse model of juvenile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
Postdoctoral Associate
Fiebelkorn Lab
Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Identifying and explaining neural signals that reflect speech and language processing in the brain
Graduate Student
Haptics Lab
Research Interest:
Selectivy of MSTd neurons to optic flow pattersn along curved paths
Graduate Student
McGrath Lab
Research Interest:
Develop the micro Sim Blood-Bain Barrier+ for modeling human, adult neurodegenerative diseases
Graduate Student
ZVR Lab
Graduate Student
Henry Lab
Research Interest:
Cochlear synaptopathy, auditory-nerve physiology
Postdoctoral Associate
Meeks Lab
Graduate Student
Snyder Lab
Research Interest:
Modeling latent neural dynamics underlying signal transformations in selective visual attention
Graduate Student
Hammond Lab
Research Interest:
The role of brain-specific complement inhibitor Sez6L2 in synaptic connectivity during development
Postdoctoral Fellow
Carney Lab
Graduate Student
Pain and Perceptions Lab
Research Interest:
The neural mechanisms underlying chronic pain, with a particular interest in how early life trauma impacts brain structure, function, and reward processing.
Email DavidHernandez Gutierrez
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
The neural basis of sentence and discourse processing, particularly in naturalistic contexts where language comprehension is a multimodal, socially situated process
Graduate Student
Mayer-Pröschel Lab
Research Interest:
How latent viruses may play a role in altering the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease
Graduate Student
Busza Lab
Research Interest:
Characterizing post-stroke motor deficits using BCI and MRI to improve functional recovery.
Graduate Student
Fiebelkorn Lab
Research Interest:
Naturalistic cognition, episodic memory, and attention
Graduate Student
Meeks Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the Cellular and Network Substrates of Chemosensation-mediated Social Learning
Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the neural substrates of multisensory integration in speech perception
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Studying neurophysiological underpinnings of cognitive and motor symptoms of movement disorders and further modulation by deep brain stimulation
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Cognitive-motor interactions in aging and neurodegeneration, objective measures of cognitive decline, and brain-computer interfaces.
Graduate Student
Fudge Lab
Research Interest:
Microglia's Role in Amygdala Paralaminar Nucleus (PL) Neuron Development in Nonhuman Primates
Graduate Student
Neural Circuits and Computation Laboratory
Research Interest:
Characterizing olfactory responses in ventral CA1 region of the hippocampus
Postdoctoral Fellow
Smith Lab
Graduate Student
Huxlin Lab
Research Interest:
Anatomical correlates of visual rehabilitation after occipital stroke
Graduate Student
Fiebelkorn Lab
Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Studying predictive processing in schizophrenia using EEG and naturalistic language paradigms
Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Computational and experimental investigations of speech perception, predictive processing, and neural oscillations
Graduate Student
Libby Lab
Research Interest:
Neurotoxic reactive glia cells in acute and chronic models of glaucoma
Graduate Student
Fogaça Lab
Research Interest:
How ketamine interacts with the endogenous opioid system to produce rapid & sustained antidepressant and hedonic effects
Graduate Student
Pain and Perceptions Lab
Research Interest:
Pain physiology and pathology with psychophysics and functional MRI
Graduate Student
Briggs Lab
Fiebelkorn Lab
Research Interest:
Visual thalamus, Feature-based Attention, Thalamocortical interactions
Postdoctoral Associate
Meeks Lab
Graduate Student
Arefin Lab
Research Interest:
Unveiling the sex-specific cellular-molecular-behavioral crosstalk following chronic alcohol exposure in mice
Graduate Student
Briggs Lab
Fiebelkorn Lab
Graduate Student
Sobolewski Lab
Cory-Slechta Lab
Research Interest:
Understanding the impact of late gestational air pollution exposure on the developing brain
Graduate Student
Briggs Lab
Crab Lab (Silverstein)
Graduate Student
Sobolewski Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating effects of gestational exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals and stress on maternal and offspring brain and behavior
Graduate Student
Fudge Lab
Research Interest:
Prefrontal cortex-amygdala circuits underlying social decision-making
Postdoctoral Associate
Cory-Slechta Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the mechanisms by which environmental toxicants can exacerbate neurodegenerative disorders
Graduate Student
Nedergaard Lab
Research Interest:
Immunoprofiling using mass cytometry following peripheral insult
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Neurophysiology & cognitive-motor integration in children and young adults with intellectual and developmental disability
Graduate Student
O'Banion-Olschowka Labs
Research Interest:
Exploring the cellular basis of neuroinflammation and attendant cognitive deficits due to cranial radiation exposure
Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
I study the neural mechanisms of speech processing using EEG, with a focus on how the brain encodes and integrates acoustic and linguistic information. My work combines signal processing, computational modeling, and experimental paradigms to better understand the dynamics of speech perception and production. I am particularly interested in how oscillatory activity supports speech communication, and in developing methods to analyze complex neural data
Graduate Student
Xia Lab
Graduate Student
Majewska Lab
Research Interest:
Astrocyte Sigma-1 Receptor signaling induces XBP1 pro-inflammatory functions in Movement Disorders
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Acute exercise intervention to ameliorate inhibitory control deficits in schizophrenia.
Graduate Student
Huxlin Lab
Briggs Lab
Research Interest:
Neuroplasticity and mechanisms of recovery following damage to the visual cortex
Graduate Student
Wang Lab
Postdoctoral Associate
Fiebelkorn Lab
Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Multisensory integration, visual perception, audiovisual speech comprehension, psychophysics
Graduate Student
Computational Neuroscience of Audition
Research Interest:
Speech processing in the human auditory cortex
Graduate Student
Wang Lab
Graduate Student
Smith Lab
Graduate Student
Xia Lab
Research Interest:
Electrophysiologically mapping PP1 and PP2A phosphatase-mediated regulation of synaptic physiology and its disruption by disease-associated variants
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Neurophysiological phenotyping of cognitive processes in rare neurodevelopmental disorders (Rett syndrome) and lysosomal storage diseases (Batten disease) and translational applications to clinical trials
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders
Graduate Student
ZVR Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the neurophysiology of cognitive-motor interactions in schizophrenia spectrum disorders
Graduate Student
Hammond Lab
Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Translational neurophysiology and advanced neuroimaging techniques in murine models for diseases such as Alzheimer’s Disease, and Lysosomal Storage disorders such as Cystinosis and Batten's Disease.
Graduate Student
Gelbard Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating how autism spectrum disorders may act as a contributing risk factor for Parkinson's disease and exploring the cellular mechanisms involved
Postdoctoral Associate
Majewska Lab
Research Interest:
Pathways that control cerebellar microglia dynamics and how these pathways contribute to cerebellar physiology and function
Graduate Student
Wang Lab
Research Interest:
Mechanism of microglia response to cannabidiol in healthy and diseased states
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Sensory processing in psychiatric disorders
Graduate Student
Neural Circuits and Computation Laboratory
Research Interest:
Network structure influences the strength of learned neural representations
Graduate Student
Wang Lab
O'Banion-Olschowka Labs
Research Interest:
Uncovering tau pathology from the context of neuroinflammation in AD brains
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Investigating language acquisition in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Graduate Student
Wang Lab
Research Interest:
The influence of emotional well-being on Alzheimer’s Disease progression.
Graduate Student
Libby Lab
Research Interest:
Pathways of retinal ganglion cell death in glaucoma