Interdisciplinary Neuroscience: Students
Current Students
Working directly with faculty P.I.s, the Ph.D. students in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience program engage in cutting edge research, tackling grand challenges from different angles.
Bridget Armstrong
Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz
Research interests: microglia, neuroendocrinology, postpartum depression
Abbie Bower
Advisor: Roxana G. Burciu
Research Description: motor neuroscience, movement disorders and neuroimaging聽
Emily Dean
Advisor: Amanda Hernan
Research Description: epilepsy
Niloufar Faridani
Advisor:聽Maryam Viziri-Pashkam
Research interests:聽Studying vision and movement during human social interactions using fMRI neuroimaging technique and computational methods
Akanksha Goyal
Advisor: Amanda Hernan
Research Description: Neural dynamics and epilepsy
Dominique Lopiccolo
Advisor: Alon Hafri
Research Description: neural mechanisms underlying spatial and mathematical cognition
Molly Quattrucci
Advisor: Roxana Burciu
Research Description:聽motor neuroscience, movement disorders and neuroimaging聽
Sara Penuela Rodriguez
Advisor: Dr. John Jeka
Research Description: balance and locomotion, focused on concussions and neuro mechanics
Ali Solbi
Advisor:聽F. Sayako Earle
Research Description: memory consolidation, sleep, speech perception
Boshang Yin
Advisor: Amanda Seidl
Research focus: language development, infant speech perception and infant speech production
Bodhiswata Biswas
Advisor:聽Alon Hafri
Research Description: Representation and organization of events in human cognition, how event structures are constructed, maintained, and transformed across modalities; how symbolic categories interface with continuous neural codes and interact with memory and perceptual systems.
Mariah Egerton
Advisor: Gio Morini
Research interests: language acquisition, cognitive development, bilingualism
Grace Gervino
Advisors:聽Evan Usler and Ho Ming Chow
Research Description:聽Speech motor control, motor neuroscience, stuttering
Christyana Kawar
Advisor: Josh Neunuebel
Research Description: behavioral neuroscience, studying the聽relationship between sensory cues and behavior, the influence of gentle touch sensation on vocalization and social behavior
Anna Luddy
Advisor: Chris Martens
Research Interests: aging and neurodegenerative disease
Sarah Marshall
Advisor:聽Philip Gable
Research Description: psychological and brain sciences
Fei Ting Woon
Advisor: Amanda Seidl聽
Research Description: language acquisition and development聽
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Alumni
Heather Aiken
Advisor: Keith Schneider
Research Description: cognitive neuroscience, temporal properties of the human visual system and functions of attention, perception and awareness.
Mary Beth Bielicki
Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz
Research Description:聽 developmental neuroimmunology, how immune activation during critical聽periods of development can contribute to symptoms of developmental disorders and impact learning behavior and brain function later in life
Taylor Campbell
Research Description: behavioral epigenetics, how both positive (exercise) and negative (stress, CNS injuries) experiences during early development and adulthood alter epigenetic regulation in the brain and spinal cord.
Su Hyeong Kim
Advisor:聽Amy Griffin, Anna Klintsova
Research Description:聽 system, behavioral, and developmental neuroscience, how developmental alcohol exposure affects cognitive function later in life and how medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus communicate聽while performing spatial working memory聽
Nicholas Collins
Research Description: behavioral neuroscience, the development of fear behavior as a function of maternal programming and associated epigenetic changes occurring in the brain of the progeny.聽
Mohamad Khalife
Advisor:聽Amanda Hernan
Research Description: epilepsy, single-cell electrophysiology and neural dynamics,聽the mechanisms of cognitive improvement in early life seizure mice post ACTH treatment
