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

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


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
Mitchell 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
O'Banion-Olschowka Labs
Research Interest:
Unraveling microglial-intrinsic sex-specific properties and their contribution to Alzheimer's disease pathology

Graduate Student
McGregor Lab

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
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Identifying brain imaging biomarkers of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and its neurocognitive correlates

Graduate Student
Meeks Lab
Research Interest:
Effects of traumatic brain injury on olfactory circuits

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

Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Wang Lab
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
Haptics Lab
Research Interest:
Selectivy of MSTd neurons to optic flow pattersn along curved paths

Graduate Student
Brown Lab

Graduate Student
McGrath Lab
Research Interest:
Develop the micro Sim Blood-Bain Barrier+ for modeling human, adult neurodegenerative diseases

Graduate Student
Carney Lab
Research Interest:
Timbre encoding in the auditory midbrain

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:
Exploring a casual role of PFC in the selection of information in MT

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:
Ketamine and pain signaling

Graduate Student
Mayer-Pröschel Lab

Graduate Student
Busza Lab
Research Interest:
Characterizing post-stroke motor deficits using BCI and MRI to improve functional recovery.

Graduate Student
Iordan Lab

Graduate Student
Meeks Lab

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

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

Graduate Student
Fiebelkorn Lab

Graduate Student
Libby Lab
Research Interest:
Neurotoxic reactive glia cells in acute and chronic models of glaucoma

Graduate Student
Fogaça Lab

Graduate Student
Briggs Lab
Fiebelkorn Lab

Postdoctoral Associate
Meeks Lab

Graduate Student
First Year
Research Interest:
Elucidating the role of High mobility group box 1 in blood-brain barrier breakdown and neuroinflammation

Graduate Student
Briggs Lab
Fiebelkorn Lab

Graduate Student
Sobolewski Lab
Research Interest:
Understanding the impact of late gestational air pollution exposure on the developing brain

Graduate Student
Xia Lab
Research Interest:
PP1 function in neurodevelopmental disease

Graduate Student
Briggs Lab

Graduate Student
Sobolewski Lab

Graduate Student
Fudge Lab
Research Interest:
Prefrontal cortex-amygdala circuits underlying social decision-making

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
Maddox Lab

Graduate Student
Xia Lab

Graduate Student
Majewska Lab
Research Interest:
The effects of modulating Sigma-1 receptor signaling on pathogenic activities of astrocytes in Parkinson's Disease

Graduate Student
Majewska Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the effects of developmental exposures to environmentally relevant toxicants on glia and neurons

Graduate Student
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Acute exercise intervention to ameliorate inhibitory control deficits in schizophrenia.

Graduate Student
Lalor Lab
Research Interest:
Social processing and underlying language deficits in schizophrenia during naturalistic video viewing

Postdoctoral Associate
Fiebelkorn Lab

Graduate Student
Xia Lab

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
Mayer-Pröschel Lab
Research Interest:
Contribution of secondary insults to neuropathology in rare genetic diseases

Graduate Student
Maddox Lab

Graduate Student
Schallek Lab
Research Interest: Structural and functional analysis of alpha smooth muscle actin in the mouse retina (under normal and hyperglycemic conditions

Graduate Student
ZVR Lab
Research Interest:
Investigating the neurophysiology of cognitive-motor interactions in schizophrenia spectrum disorders

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

Postdoctoral Associate
Majewska Lab
Research Interest:
Pathways that control cerebellar microglia dynamics and how these pathways contribute to cerebellar physiology and function

Graduate Student
Maddox Lab

Postdoctoral Fellow
Wang Lab
Research Interest:
Mechanisms of mesofrontal dopaminergic plasticity

Graduate Student
Wang Lab
Research Interest:
Mechanism of microglia response to cannabidiol in healthy and diseased states

Graduate Student
Lalor Lab

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

Postdoctoral Fellow
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory
Research Interest:
Neurophysiology of multisensory perception and predictive processing in autism and neurotypical populations

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