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Lab Members

Leadership

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PhD Students

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

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High School Interns

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Kei Kawata

Principal Investigator

Staff

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Dae-Jin Kim

Research Associate

Grace Recht

PhD Candidate

Claire Buddenbaum

Evan Cheng

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Research Coordinator

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Zach Bellini

Gage Ellis

PhD Student

Michael Pham

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Catalina Elwonger

PhD Student

Yash Gajjar

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Research Coordinator

Harper Day

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Lauren Beauregard

PhD Student

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Eva Guzman

Staff/Postdoctoral researchers/Graduate Students:

Zachary Bevilacqua, PhD (2017 – 2020)

  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at SUNY Brockport

 

Megan Huibregtse, PhD (2017 – 2022)

  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 

Madeleine Nowak, PhD (2017 – 2022)

  • Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine Dept of Psychiatry

 

Kyle Kercher, PhD (2019 – 2022)

  • Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health

Taylor Zuidema, PhD (2021 – 2024) 

  • Clinical Manger at Eli Lilly and Company

 

Sage Sweeney (2021 – 2025) – Research Assistant. B.S. in Human Biology

  • Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program at Indiana University School of Medicine

 

Jiancheng Hou, PhD (2021 – 2024) 

  • Professor at Fujian University 

 

Travis Beckwith, PhD (2023 – 2024) 

  • AI Model Trainer at Outlier inc.

 

Daniel Levitas, PhD (2023 – 2024) 

  • Research Analyst at University of North Carolina.

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

 

Alumni

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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