Interdisciplinary Neuroscience: Students

Bridget Armstrong

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Research interests: microglia, neuroendocrinology, postpartum depression

Abbie Bower

 

Kinesiology & Applied Physiology

Advisor: Dr. Roxana G. Burciu

Research Description: motor neuroscience, movement disorders, and neuroimaging 

Taylor Campbell

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Research area: Behavioral epigenetics

Research Description: Interested in how both positive (exercise) and negative (stress, CNS injuries) experiences during early development and adulthood alter epigenetic regulation in the brain and spinal cord.

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Claudia Collins

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Emily Dean

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amanda Hernan

Research Description: Epilepsy

Akanksha Goyal

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amanda Hernan

Research Description: Neural dynamics and epilepsy

Zachary Gemzik

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin

Grace Gervino

 

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Advisors: Evan Usler and Ho Ming Chow

Research Description: Speech motor control, motor neuroscience, stuttering

Christyana Kawar

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Research Area: Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Description: Studying the relationship between sensory cues and behavior--in particular, the influence of gentle touch sensation on vocalization and social behavior

Mohamad Khalife

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amanda Hernan

Research Area: epilepsy, single cell electrophysiology and neural dynamics

Research Description: I work on investigating the cognitive development and neural

dynamics in mice with early life seizure after ACTH treatment. I am currently investigating

the mechanisms of cognitive improvement in early life seizure mice post ACTH treatment

using single neuron electrophysiology recording and behavior experiments.

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Su Hyeong Kim

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin, Anna Klintsova

Research area:  System, Behavioral, and Developmental Neuroscience

Research description:  Interested in how developmental alcohol exposure affects cognitive function later in life and how medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus communicate while performing spatial working memory 

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Elise Lemanski

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Dominique Lopiccolo

 

Linguistics & Cognitive Science

Advisor: Alon Hafri

Research Description: Interested in the neural mechanisms underlying spatial and mathematical cognition

Yichong (Andre) Ma

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Sarah Marshall

 

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Advisor: Philip Gable

Research Description: Psychological and Brain Sciences

Devashish Pande

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Sara Penuela Rodriguez

 

Kinesiology & Applied Physiology

Advisor: Dr. John Jeka

Research interests: balance and locomotion, Focused on concussions and neuro mechanics

Ian Smith

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Anna Klintsova

Ali Solbi

 

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Advisor: F. Sayako Earle

Research Description: Memory consolidation, Sleep, Speech perception

Jung-Mei Tsai

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Anjana Bhat

Research Area: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) / creative intervention

Research Description: Interested in creative art interventions for children with ASD to improve emotion processing and recognition.

Fei Ting Woon

 

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Advisor: Amanda Seidl 

Research Description: Language acquisition and development 

Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Alumni

Heather Aiken

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Keith Schneider

Research area: Cognitive Neuroscience

Research description: Temporal properties of the human visual system and functions of attention, perception, and awareness.

Mary Beth Bielicki

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Research description: I am currently conducting research in the field of developmental neuroimmunology. My research focuses on how immune activation during critical periods of development can contribute to symptoms of developmental disorders and impact learning behavior and brain function later in life.

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Nicholas Collins

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Research Area: Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Description: My work explores the development of fear behavior as a function of maternal programming and associated epigenetic changes occurring in the brain of the progeny. 

John Stout

 

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin