Interdisciplinary Neuroscience: Students

Interdisciplinary Programs

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

bridgeja@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Research interests: microglia, neuroendocrinology, postpartum depression

Abbie Bower

aebower@udel.edu

Kinesiology & Applied Physiology

Advisor: Dr. Roxana G. Burciu

Research Description: motor neuroscience, movement disorders, and neuroimaging

Taylor Campbell

tcamp@udel.edu

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

ccol@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Emily Dean

edean@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amanda Hernan

Research Description: Epilepsy

Akanksha Goyal

agoyal@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amanda Hernan

Research Description: Neural dynamics and epilepsy

Zachary Gemzik

zgemzik@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Amy Griffin

Grace Gervino

ggervino@udel.edu

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Advisors: Evan Usler and Ho Ming Chow

Research Description: Speech motor control, motor neuroscience, stuttering

Christyana Kawar

ckawar@udel.edu

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

mkhalife@udel.edu

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

suhyeong@udel.edu

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

lemanski@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Jaclyn Schwarz

Dominique Lopiccolo

dlopicco@udel.edu

Linguistics & Cognitive Science

Advisor: Alon Hafri

Research Description: Interested in the neural mechanisms underlying spatial and mathematical cognition

Yichong (Andre) Ma

yma@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Sarah Marshall

marshsa@udel.edu

Psychological and Brain Sciences

Advisor: Philip Gable

Research Description: Psychological and Brain Sciences

Devashish Pande

deva@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Josh Neunuebel

Sara Penuela Rodriguez

penuelas@udel.edu

Kinesiology & Applied Physiology

Advisor: Dr. John Jeka

Research interests: balance and locomotion, Focused on concussions and neuro mechanics

Ian Smith

ismith@udel.edu

Psychological & Brain Sciences

Advisor: Anna Klintsova

Ali Solbi

alisolbi@udel.edu

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Advisor: F. Sayako Earle

Research Description: Memory consolidation, Sleep, Speech perception

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.

Fei Ting Woon

feitingw@udel.edu

Communication Sciences & Disorders

Advisor: Amanda Seidl

Research Description: Language acquisition and development

Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Alumni

Heather Aiken

haiken@udel.edu

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

bielicki@udel.edu

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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Nicholas Collins

nicollin@udel.edu

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.