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.

Heather Aiken

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Keith Schneider

Research area: Cognitive Neuroscience

Research description: Temporal properties of the human visual system and functions of attention, perception, and awareness.

Mary Beth Bielicki

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Research description: I am currently conducting research in the field of developmental neuroimmunology. My research focuses on 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.

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Taylor Campbell

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Research area: Behavioral epigenetics

Research Description: Interested in how both positive (exercise) and negative (stress, CNS injuries) experiences during early development and adulthood alter epigenetic regulation in the brain and spinal cord.

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Claudia Collins

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Nicholas Collins

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Research Area: Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Description: My work explores the development of fear behavior as a function of maternal programming and associated epigenetic changes occurring in the brain of the progeny. 

Zachary Gemzik

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin

Christyana Kawar

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Research Area: Behavioral Neuroscience

Research Description: Studying the relationship between sensory cues and behavior--in particular, the influence of gentle touch sensation on vocalization and social behavior

Mohamad Khalife

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amanda Hernan

Research Area: epilepsy, single cell electrophysiology and neural dynamics

Research Description: I work on investigating the cognitive development and neural

dynamics in mice with early life seizure after ACTH treatment. I am currently investigating

the mechanisms of cognitive improvement in early life seizure mice post ACTH treatment

using single neuron electrophysiology recording and behavior experiments.

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Su Hyeong Kim

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin, Anna Klintsova

Research area:  System, Behavioral, and Developmental Neuroscience

Research description:  Interested in how developmental alcohol exposure affects cognitive function later in life and how medial prefrontal cortex and hippocampus communicate while performing spatial working memory 

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Elise Lemanski

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Yichong (Andre) Ma

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Devashish Pande

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Kari Schwink

Linguistics & Cognitive Science

Advisor: Arild Hestvik

Ian Smith

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Anna Klintsova

John Stout

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin

Jung-Mei Tsai

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Anjana Bhat

Research Area: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) / creative intervention

Research Description: Interested in creative art interventions for children with ASD to improve emotion processing and recognition.