[Current members]

Minae Niwa – Principal Investigator, Associate Professor (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol)

Jose Francis de OliveiraPostdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol)

Allyson Thammavongsa – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience)

Matthew Shen – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP)

[Alumni]

Postdoctoral fellows

Kongpyung KimPostdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2019-2022; Assistant Professor, Okayama University, Japan

Norimichi Ito – Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2020-2021; Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, Japan

Graduate and medical students

Ryleigh Nyman – Medical student, 2022-2024; Resident, Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University

William Gilbert – PhD Student (GBS rotation, Neuroscience), 2023-2024 rotation

Gabrielle Prince – PhD Student (GBS rotation, Neuroscience), 2023 rotation

Shaimaa Khidr – PhD Student (GBS, Pathobiology, Pharmacology, & Physiology), 2023 rotation

Victoria King – PhD Student (Psychology, Behav Neurosci), 2021 rotation

Rahul Gaini – Medical Student, 2019-2021; Resident, Neurology, Duke University

Research technicians

Adeel Ahmed – Researcher II (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2022-2023

Owen Leitzel – Researcher II (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2021-2022; UAB GBS graduate student

Dania Mallah – Researcher II and MS student (BME, Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2019-2021; Computational Data Analyst, Harvard Medical School

Undergraduate students

Rohit Reddy – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2020-2024

Jakayla Thomas – Blazer BRAIN Summer Student (Psychology, Miles College), 2024

Lila Ariste – Blazer BRAIN Summer Student (Biology, Adelphi Univ), 2023

Molly McNulty – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience), 2022

Alex Hayes – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience), 2021-2022

Alp Turgut – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2020-2021

Hector Caceres – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2019-2021

Soumya Khanna – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2019-2020