Principal Investigator

Omar Ahmed.jpg — Omar J. Ahmed

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

Research Technicians

Sofia Andrikou

**Data Analysis Technician**

Isla Brooks

**Physiology & Bioinformatics Technician**

Ethan Donoho

**Genotyping & Imaging Technician**

Izabela Jedrasiak-Cape

**Lab Manager & Senior Technician**

Vaughn Hetrick

**Lab Manager & Lead Technician**

Postdoctoral Fellows

Cassie Avila

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

Tyler Ekins

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

**Alexander Johnson**

**Graduated from Doug Nitz’s Lab at UCSD**

Graduate Students

  Undergraduate Research Assistants

Elizabeth Brouns

Kate Conkright

Audrey Herman

Arham Kaiser

Yuki Kanazawa

Yasmina Haddad

Gurnoor Kaur

Rishi Raghav

Fanny Raskind

Nidhi Tolpadi

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**

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

Rex Hu

Abigail McCay

Rachel Meng

Daniel Najarian

Nikhil Ramachandra

Divya Singhal

Rachel Weldy

Ruben Wu

Christine Zeng