Lab Members
Leadership
Staff
Kei Kawata
Principal Investigator
PhD Students
Dae-Jin Kim
Research Associate
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Gage Ellis
PhD Candidate
Michael Pham
Isaac Siewin
Research Coordinator
Zach Bellini
Lauren Beauregard
PhD Student
Eva Guzman
Mason Cannady
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PhD Candidate
Claire Buddenbaum
PhD Student
Jacob Finney
Nile Raza
Kirstin West
Tate Trammell
PhD Student
PhD Student
Research Coordinator
Harper Day
Research Coordinator
Molly McGuire
Alumni
Staff/Postdoctoral researchers/Graduate Students:
Zachary Bevilacqua, PhD (2017 – 2020)
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at SUNY Brockport
Megan Huibregtse, PhD (2017 – 2022)
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Madeleine Nowak, PhD (2017 – 2022)
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine Dept of Psychiatry
Kyle Kercher, PhD (2019 – 2022)
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health
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Taylor Zuidema, PhD (2021 – 2024)
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Clinical Manger at Eli Lilly and Company
Sage Sweeney (2021 – 2025) – Research Coordinator. B.S. in Human Biology
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Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program at Indiana University School of Medicine
Jiancheng Hou, PhD (2021 – 2024)
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Professor at Fujian University
Travis Beckwith, PhD (2023 – 2024)
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AI Model Trainer at Outlier inc.
Daniel Deabler, PhD (2023 – 2025)
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Research Analyst at University of North Carolina.
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Gracie Recht, PhD (2022-2026)
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Postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Francisco
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Catalina Elwonger, M.S. (2024-2026)
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Mikayla Stevens (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Lillian Klemz (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Isabella Alexander (2019 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Rachel Kalbfell (2018 – 2022) B.S. in Biochemistry
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Adriana Rodriguez (2022 – 2025) B.S. in Clinical Psychology
Trinity Wright (2022 – 2024) B.S. in Neuroscience
Sufiyan Ahmed (2021 – 2024) B.S. in Neuroscience
Osas Ogbeide (2020 – 2024) B.S. in Biology/Exercise Science
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Alekhya Koppineni (2018 – 2020) B.S. in Neuroscience.
Joseph Kim (2018 – 2019) B.S. in Biochemistry
Nishant Chenchaiah (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Rida Bonday (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
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Yash Gajjar (2024-2026) B.S. in Neuroscience