A Wealth of Talent
With the goal of building interdisciplinary collaborations, LaMP trainees are sought from diverse graduate groups including Neuroscience (NSC), Pharmacology and Toxicology (PTX), Psychology (PSY), Integrative Genetics and Genomics (IGG), Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (BMCDB), Molecular Cellular and Integrative Physiology (MCIP) and Biomedical Engineering (BMEGG) graduate programs. Current and past trainees are highlighted below with links to their biographies and recent publications.
2022-2023 Trainees
Joshua Chandra
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Christina K. Kim, Ph.D.
Research Area: Systems/Behavior
Proposal Title: Mechanisms that underlie rewards-based behavioral state changes
Nicholas Christopher-Hayes
Graduate Group: Psychology
Major Professor: Simona Ghetti, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cognitive
Proposal Title: Linking chronic asthma to memory impairments in children
Andrea Cordero
Graduate Group: Human Development
Major Professor: Johnna Swartz, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cognitive
Proposal Title: TBD
Jessica Korte
Graduate Group: Biomedical Engineering
Major Professor: Audrey Fan, Ph.D. and Wil Joiner, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cognitive
Proposal Title: Dissociating the neural correlates of motor learning and memory deficits in healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease
Celena Lozano
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Kimberley McAllister, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: Identifying changes in hippocampal connections that underlie susceptibility and resilience in offspring following maternal immune activation
Paula Vij
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Kyle Fink, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: Characterization of human model systems for neurodevelopmental disorders using patient-specific iPSC-derived cells.
2021-2022 Trainees
Arabo Avanes
Graduate Group: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Major Professor: David Olson, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: TBD
Shea Duarte
Graduate Group: Psychology
Major Professor: Joy Geng, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cognitive
Proposal Title: Identifying mechanisms of multisensory memory using virtual reality and fMRI
Simone Grant
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Melissa Bauman, Ph.D.
Research Area: Systems/Behavior
Proposal Title: Influence of DISC1 genetics on brain and behavioral development of offspring exposed to maternal immune activation
Chelsey Lee
Graduate Group: Integrative Genetics and Genomics
Major Professor: David Segal, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: The Epigenetics Crossroads of Environmental Exposures and Early-Life Adversity
Samuel Petshow
Graduate Group: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Major Professor: Karen Zito, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: Uncovering the mechanisms of Ephexin5 function in dendritic spine plasticity and Alzheimer's disease
Hannah Saeger
Graduate Group: Pharmacology and Toxicology
Major Professor: David Olson, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: TBD
Tanner Stevenson
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professors: Tim Hanks, Ph.D. & Rishi Chaudhuri, Ph.D.
Research Area: Systems & Behavior & Computational
Proposal Title: TBD
2020-2021 Trainees
Jasmine Carter
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Kyle Fink, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: iPSC-derived neuronal model to study synaptic plasticity impairments associated with intellectual disabilities
Rose De Kock
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Wil Joiner, Ph.D.
Research Area: Systems/Behavior
Proposal Title: Influence of movement on temporal discrimination in children with ADHD
Anirudh Gaur
Graduate Group: Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
Major Professor: Jennifer Whistler, Ph.D.
Research Area: Systems/Behavior
Proposal Title: Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptors gate dopamine dynamics, memory and learning
Kiran Long-Iyer
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Lin Tian, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: Investigating the sterotonergic modulation of reinforcement learning
Jacob Russin
Graduate Group: Psychology
Major Professor: Randy O'Reilly, Ph.D.
Research Area: Computational
Proposal Title: Computational principles underlying learning in the prefrontal cortex
Ksenia Vlasov
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Diasynou Fioravante, Ph.D.
Research Area: Systems/Behavior
Proposal Title: Functional connectivity in novel cerebellar-amygdala circuits in mice
Tracy Warren
Graduate Group: Neuroscience
Major Professor: Alex Nord, Ph.D.
Research Area: Cell/Molecular
Proposal Title: Uncovering the functional role of memory-associated risk variants in CACNA1C