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.
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.
Abbie Bower
Kinesiology & Applied Physiology
Advisor: Dr. Roxana G. Burciu
Research Description: motor neuroscience, movement disorders, and neuroimaging
Taylor Campbell
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.
Emily Dean
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Advisor: Amanda Hernan
Research Description: Epilepsy
Akanksha Goyal
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Advisor: Amanda Hernan
Research Description: Neural dynamics and epilepsy
Grace Gervino
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Advisors: Evan Usler and Ho Ming Chow
Research Description: Speech motor control, motor neuroscience, stuttering
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.
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
Sarah Marshall
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Advisor: Philip Gable
Research Description: Psychological and Brain Sciences
Ali Solbi
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Advisor: F. Sayako Earle
Research Description: Memory consolidation, Sleep, Speech perception
Fei Ting Woon
Communication Sciences & Disorders
Advisor: Amanda Seidl
Research Description: Language acquisition and development
Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Alumni
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.
