Principal Investigator

Omar J. Ahmed

**Associate Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering**

Research Technicians

Sofia Andrikou

**Data Analysis Technician**

Ethan Donoho

**Lab Manager & Senior Technician**

Izabela Jedrasiak-Cape

**Lab Manager & Senior Technician**

Tao Deng

**Whole Cell Physiology & Imaging Technician**

Postdoctoral Fellows / Neurosurgery Residents

Cassie Avila

**Graduated from Martin Sarter’s Lab at the Univ. of Michigan**

Tyler Ekins

**Graduated from Chris McBain’s Lab at the NIH**

**Kaiser Arndt**

**Graduated from Dan English’s Lab at Virginia Tech**

Sameer Kailasa

**Graduated with a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Victoria Booth and Omar Ahmed’s Labs at the Univ. of Michigan**

**Armin Mortazavi**

**Neurosurgery Resident**
**MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine**
**NIH Predoctoral Training Program Research with Kareem Zaghloul**

Graduate Students

Elizabeth Brouns

**Biopsychology Masters Student**

Cayden Dodd

**Chemistry Rotation Student**

  Undergraduate Research Assistants

Ananya Bommineni

Matilda Burke

Paul Fontana

Jaeryeong (Jenny) Kim

Nathan Park

Isha Singhal

Skye Thompson

Alumni

Ellen Brennan

**Neuroscience Ph.D. Student in the lab, 2016-2021**
**NSF Graduate Research Fellow**
**Now a Program Administrator, NASA Vermont Space Grant Consortium**

Sharena Rice

Neuroscience Ph.D. Student in the lab, 2016-2021

NIH T32 Fellow

Now working in the Startup Industry

Tibin John

**Neuroscience Ph.D. Student in the lab, 2017-2022**
**NSF Graduate Research Fellow**
**Now an M.D. student at Yale University**

Danny Siu

**Biopsychology Ph.D. Student in the lab, 2017-2022**
**Now working as a Data Scientist**

Megha Ghosh

**Biopsychology Ph.D. Student in the lab, 2018-2023**
**Rackham Predoctoral Fellow**
**Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington**

Alcides Lorenzo Gonzalez

**Neuroscience Ph.D. Student in the lab, 2017-2023**
**Now a Postdoctoral Fellow at Florida International University in Tim Allen’s lab**

Vaughn Hetrick

**Lab Manager & Lead Technician in the lab, 2016-2024**
**Now a commercial pilot**

Isla Brooks

**Physiology & Bioinformatics Technician in the lab, 2022-2024**
**Now a Ph.D. Student at Brown University**

Allison Ahrens, Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Now a Research Scientist at Boston University
 
Thomas Choi, Former Lab Technician (2016-18), Now an MD student at Uniformed Services University

Will Sheeran, UM MCDB Masters Student, Now an MD/PhD student at the University of Colorado

Shyam Kumar Sudhakar, Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Now an Assistant Professor at Krea University

Fang-Chi Yang, Now a Postdoctoral Associate at Brown University

Mingxiao Zhang, UM BME Masters Student, Now a PhD student at Univ. of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Undergraduate Alumni:

Matthew Askar

Keaton Bonds

Elizabeth Brouns

Yasmina Haddad

Audrey Herman

Arham Kaiser

Yuki Kanazawa

Rex Hu

Gurnoor Kaur

Abigail McCay

Rachel Meng

Daniel Najarian

Rishi Raghav

Nikhil Ramachandra

Divya Singhal

Nidhi Tolpadi

Rachel Weldy

Ruben Wu

Christine Zeng