Lab Members
Leadership
Staff
Kei Kawata
Principal Investigator
PhD Students
Dae-Jin Kim
Research Associate
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Gage Ellis
PhD Candidate
Michael Pham
Kirstin West
Research Coordinator
Zach Bellini
Lauren Beauregard
PhD Student
Eva Guzman
Isaac Siewin
Claire Buddenbaum
PhD Candidate
PhD Student
Kate Miller
Mason Cannady
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Jacob Finney
Research Coordinator
Harper Day
Research Coordinator
Molly McGuire
PhD Student
PhD Student
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
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.
Gracie Recht, PhD (2022-2026)
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Postdoctoral researcher at University of California San Francisco
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
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
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
Yash Gajjar (2024-2026) B.S. in Neuroscience