
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
Emily Dean
Advisor: Amanda Hernan
Research Description: epilepsy
Niloufar Faridani
Advisor: Maryam Viziri-Pashkam
Research interests: 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: motor neuroscience, movement disorders and neuroimaging
Sara Penuela Rodriguez
Advisor: Dr. John Jeka
Research Description: balance and locomotion, focused on concussions and neuro mechanics
Ali Solbi
Advisor: 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: 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: Evan Usler and Ho Ming Chow
Research Description: Speech motor control, motor neuroscience, stuttering
Christyana Kawar
Advisor: Josh Neunuebel
Research Description: behavioral neuroscience, studying the 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: Philip Gable
Research Description: psychological and brain sciences
Fei Ting Woon
Advisor: Amanda Seidl
Research Description: language acquisition and development
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: developmental neuroimmunology, how immune activation during critical periods of development can contribute to symptoms of developmental disorders and impact learning behavior and brain function later in life
Taylor Campbell
Su Hyeong Kim
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.