

Lab Members
Leadership

Kei Kawata
Principal Investigator
Staff

PhD Students
High School Interns

Dae-Jin Kim
Research Associate


Grace Recht
PhD Candidate
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Claire Buddenbaum
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Jacob Finney
Evan Cheng

Research Coordinator



Zach Bellini
Gage Ellis
PhD Student
Michael Pham
Kate Miller

Catalina Elwonger

PhD Student
Yash Gajjar

Research Coordinator
Harper Day

Molly McGuire
Research Coordinator

Lauren Beauregard
PhD Student

Eva Guzman
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.
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