People

Name	Title	Department	Role	Topics	Research interests
Lamiae Abdeladim	Postdoctoral researcher, Adesnik lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
Sabrina Abram	Postdoctoral Researcher, CognAc lab	Psychology	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience
Hillel Adesnik	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Neural basis of sensation, perception, and action
Erin Aisenberg	Postdoctoral Researcher, Bateup lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc
Adrián Alejandro	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Gomez Lab
Derek Apodaca	Director of Building Services		Administrative Staff
Leleña Avila	Graduate Program Manager	Neuroscience	Administrative Staff	Graduate Program
Robin Ball	Continuing Lecturer	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Active and inclusive teaching practices in biology education
Deepthi Bannai	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Olshausen & Yates Labs
Helen Bateup	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience, Molecular and Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Molecular basis of synapse and circuit changes associated with epilepsy and autism
Annaliese Beery	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Integrative Biology, Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Mechanisms supporting affiliative social behavior between peers; neuroendocrinology of complex behavior
Natalie Bernstein	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Puthussery Lab
Nikhil Bhatla	Postdoctoral Researcher, Adesnik lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Karina Bistrong	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Feller Lab
Julia Bleier	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Isacoff Lab
Briana Bohannon	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feldman lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Postdoc	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Interneurons, cellular physiology, ion channels, psychiatric/neurodevelopmental disease
Steve Brohawn	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Molecular basis of sensory transduction and electrical signaling, especially mechanosensation
Skylar Brooks	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Hsu Lab
Haidyn Bulen	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Octavio Campos	Undergraduate Academic Advisor		Administrative Staff
Katie Carson	Assistant Director of Student Services		Administrative Staff
Amanda Chirino	Postdoctoral Researcher, Ivry lab	Psychology	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience
Bonnie Tom	Undergraduate Academic Advisor		Administrative Staff
Faye Clever	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Katie Cording	Postdoctoral Researcher, Bateup lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc
Yang Dan	Howard Hughes Medical Investigator and Professor of Neuroscience, Pivotal Life Sciences Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Neural circuits controlling sleep; mechanisms of executive control
Matt Davis	Postdoctoral Researcher, Beery lab	Integrative Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Michael DeWeese	Professor of Neuroscience	Optometry, Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Computational Neuroscience	Neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing and selective attention in the cerebral cortex and artificial neural networks
Gül Dölen	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience and Psychology	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Circuit and synaptic mechanisms of social cognition.
Julie Elie	Postdoctoral Researcher, Yartsev lab	BioEngineering	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience
Anna Elleman	Postdoctoral Researcher, Kramer lab	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Postdoc	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Thomas Elston	Postdoctoral Researcher, Wallis lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience
David Feinberg	Acting Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Cognitive Neuroscience	MRI technology development, mapping columnar and visual circuitry, modeling neurovascular coupling
Dan Feldman	Professor of Neuroscience, Coates Family Endowed Chair in Neuroscience, Department Chair	Neuroscience	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Sensory processing and plasticity in the somatosensory cortex
Maya Feldthouse	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Isacoff Lab
Marla Feller	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Functional development and organization of neural circuits in the retina
Yvette Fisher	Assistant Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Flexibility of neural circuits for spatial navigation
Corrina Fonseca	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Jagust Lab
Angelo Forli	Postdoctoral Researcher, Yartsev lab	BioEngineering	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
David Foster	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Encoding of spatial memory and navigation toward rewards by neural ensembles in the hippocampus
Marta Gajowa	Postdoctoral Researcher, Adesnik lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Carina Galicia	Director of Student Services		Administrative Staff
Jack Gallant	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Cognitive Neuroscience	Identifying cortical maps to discover how the brain represents information about the world and its own mental states
Logan Ganzen	Postdoctoral Researcher, Kramer lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Angel Garcia	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Pierre-Marie Garderes	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feldman lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Neuroscience	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
Liz Gardner	Department Manager	Neuroscience	Administrative Staff
Joseph Giorgio	Postdoctoral Researcher, Jagust lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience
Zhongyan Gong	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Bautista Lab
Mark Gorenstein	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Knight & Piantadosi Labs
Teresa Granados	Interim Director of Financial Services		Administrative Staff
Jessica Gustin Murray	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Feng Han	Postdoctoral Researcher, Jagust lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience
Theresa (Tessa) Harrison	Research Staff, Jagust lab	Neuroscience	Research Staff	Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, resilience, multimodal neuroimaging
Alev Hatay	AP Analyst		Administrative Staff
Caroline He	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Will Hendricks	Postdoctoral Researcher, Adensik lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Katharine Henn	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Miller Lab
Nancy Hernandez Villegas	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Schekman Lab
Marcus Hogan	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Jen Holmberg	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Gallant & Silver Labs
Mary Hsueh	Academic Services Director		Administrative Staff
Eric Hu	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Wallis Lab
Carolyn Irving	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Ehud Isacoff	Professor of Neuroscience, Evan Rauch Chair in Neuroscience	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Mechanisms of ion channel function, synapse development, plasticity, and neural circuit function
Richard Ivry	Professor of Neuroscience	Psychology, Neuroscience	Faculty	Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognition and action, with an emphasis on how people select actions, learn skills, and produce coordinated movements
Samantha Jackson	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Wilbrecht Lab
William Jagust	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Cognitive Neuroscience	Anatomic, biochemical, and neurochemical bases of brain aging and dementia
Yanabah Jaques	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Kaufer Lab
Mark Jenkinson	Director of Administraton and Operations		Administrative Staff
Na Ji	Professor of Neuroscience	Physics, Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Novel imaging methods to understand the brain
Iksung Kang	Postdoctoral Researcher, Ji lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Computational Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Krishna Kasuba	Postdoctoral Researcher, Yartsev lab	BioEngineering, Neuroscience	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience
Daniela Kaufer	Professor of Neuroscience	Integrative Biology	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity in response to stress and neurological insults
Preeya Khanna	Assistant Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Neural basis of dexterous motor skills and neurotechnology for restoring and rehabilitating movement
Leana King	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Weiner Lab
Bob Knight	Professor of the Graduate School	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty		Neural coding underlying goal-directed behavior and development of brain-machine interfaces for motor and language prostheses.
MeeJung Ko	Postdoctoral Researcher, Kaufer lab	Integrative Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience
Natsumi Komatsu	Postdoctoral Researcher, Landry lab	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Postdoc	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Richard Kramer	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Novel chemical reagents for non-invasive optical sensing and manipulation of ion channels and synapses
Lance Kriegsfeld	Professor of Neuroscience	Psychology, Neuroscience	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Brain and endocrine regulation of circadian rhythms
Chris Kymn	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Olshausen Lab
Amanda LaBel	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Gallant & Ivry Labs
Stephan Lammel	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Midbrain dopamine circuits in reward-based behaviors and pathological changes in addiction, depression and schizophrenia
Markita Landry	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering	Faculty	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Exploiting nanomaterials to probe and characterize complex biological systems at the nano-scale; nanosensors for brain chemistry
Aryanna Layden	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Jing-Jing Li	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Collins Lab
Tommy Li	Postdoctoral Researcher, Bateup lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Pei Wei Liu	Postdoctoral Researcher, Jagust lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience
Odilia Lu	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Lammel Lab
Samira Maboudian	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Jagust & Weiner Labs
Sonali Mali	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Bautista Lab
Maura McDonagh	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Baranzini & Kaufer Labs
Dosia McKinney	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Kaufer Lab
Anna McPherson	Undergraduate Academic Advisor		Administrative Staff
Emily Meschke	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Gallant Lab
Hannah Monday	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feldman lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Gergey Mousa	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Olzmann Lab
Dyana Muller	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Piantadosi Lab
Nathan Munet	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Wallis Lab
Sandra Muroy	Postdoctoral Researcher, Kaufer lab	Integrative Biology, HWNI, Neuroscience	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Lily Nguyen	MCB PhD student	Molecular and Cell Biology	Student	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience	Fisher Lab
Kristin Nichols	HR Partner		Administrative Staff
Allison Nieto	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Feldman Lab
Sean Noah	Postdoctoral Researcher, Silver lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience	Perception, cognition, attention, psychedelics and other psychoactive drugs
Bruno Olshausen	Professor of Neuroscience	Optometry, Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Computational Neuroscience	Computational models of sensory coding and visual perception
Ben Parker	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Weiner Lab
Stefania Pezzoli	Postdoctoral Researcher, Jagust lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience	Cognitive aging, Alzheimer's disease, successful aging, resilience, neuroimaging, neuropsychology
Chayarndorn Phumsatitpong	Postdoctoral Researcher, Kriegsfeld lab	Psychology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Miah Pitcher	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Feller Lab
Mark Plitt	Postdoctoral Researcher, Fisher lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
David Presti	Teaching Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Cognitive Neuroscience	How psychoactive substances contribute to understanding of the connection between physical processes in the brain and the psychology of mental states (the mind-body problem)
Max Pruner	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Foster Lab
Tianhao Qiu	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Fisher Lab
Deepa Ramamurthy	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feldman lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Neural circuits for attentional selection in somatosensory cortex.
Lucia Rodriguez	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Feldman Lab
Masato Sadahiro	Postdoctoral Researcher, Adesnik lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Atehsa Sahagun	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Bateup Lab
Eduardo Sandoval	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		DeWeese & Knight Labs
Ryan Schultz	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Isacoff Lab
Michael Silver	Professor of Neuroscience	Optometry, Neuroscience	Faculty	Cognitive Neuroscience	Neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of human visual perception, attention, and learning
Vidhi Sinha	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Rachana Deven Somaiya	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feller lab	Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Brooke Staveland	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Hsu & Knight Labs
Boaz Styr	Postdoctoral Researcher, Yartsev lab	BioEngineering	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Shruthi Sukumar	Postdoctoral Researcher, CognAc lab	Psychology	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience
Matthew Tarchick	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feller lab		Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
Frédéric Theunissen	Professor of Neuroscience, PhD Program Director	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Perception of complex sounds
Alina Tiemroth	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Gomez Lab
Cécile Tissot	Postdoctoral Researcher, Baker lab and Jagust lab	Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging	Postdoc	Computational Neuroscience
Dario Tommasini	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Shekhar Lab
Mauro Torres	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Weiner Lab
Tyler Toueg	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Jagust & Silver Labs
Tiffany Tran	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Liu Lab
Cincia Tsai	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Jagust & Kaufer Labs
Doris Tsao	Professor of Neuroscience, Nan Fung Life Sciences Faculty Scholar	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	How the brain builds a model of the visual world
Christine Tseng	Postdoctoral Researcher, Gallant lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience
Emilie Tu	Research staff (lab manager), Bateup lab	Molecular and Cell Biology, Neuroscience	Research Staff	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Neural basis of behavior, neurological disorders.
Kaeli Vandemark	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Feldman Lab
Matteo Visconti di Oleggio Castello	Postdoctoral Researcher, Gallant lab	Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute	Postdoc	Cognitive Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience
Joni Wallis	Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty, Faculty Research: Computational Neuroscience	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Neuronal mechanisms underlying high-level cognitive and behavioral processes
Han Chin Wang	Postdoctoral Researcher, Feldman lab	Neuroscience	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Sensory neuroscience
Maddie Webb	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Dillin Lab
Kevin Weiner	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty	Cognitive Neuroscience	Models to explain how brain structure and function contribute to measurable behaviors (e.g. face perception)
Gerald Westheimer	Professor of the Graduate School	Neuroscience	Faculty		Perceptual learning in spatial visual tasks
Linda Wilbrecht	Professor of Neuroscience	Psychology, Neuroscience	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Experience dependent plasticity and the development of circuits involved in value based decision making
Makenzie Wilkinson	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student
Kelly Wong	Research Staff (Lab Manager), Feldman lab and Fisher lab	Neuroscience	Research Staff	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Neurodevelopmental disorders, sensory dysfunction, ADHD, autism
Chenchen Xia	Postdoctoral Researcher, Clark lab	BioEngineering	Postdoc	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience, Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Mental disorders, neurodegenerative diseases
Michael Yartsev	Associate Professor of Neuroscience	Neuroscience, BioEngineering	Faculty	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Neural basis of complex spatial and acoustic behaviors
Anna (Ha Yun) Yoon	ME PhD student	Mechanical Engineering	Student	Circuit Systems and Behavioral Neuroscience	Ji Lab
Peony Yu	Graudate Program Coordinator	Neuroscience	Administrative Staff	Graduate Program
Jun Zhu			Postdoc
Jun Zhu		Molecular and Cell Biology	Postdoc	Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience	Optical microscopy for neuronal imaging
Kailin Zhuang	Graduate Student	Neuroscience	Student		Bouchard Lab
Bob Zucker	Professor of the Graduate School	Neuroscience	Faculty		Mechanisms underlying regulation of synaptic transmission