People

[Current members]

Minae Niwa – Principal Investigator, Associate Professor (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol)

Jose Francis de Oliveira – ​Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol)

Adeel Ahmed – Researcher II and lab coordinator (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol)

Rohit Reddy – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP)

Ms. K – ​Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol): starting Spring 2023

[Alumni]

Postdoctoral fellows

Kongpyung Kim – ​Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2019-2022; Physician, Okayama University, Japan

Norimichi Ito – Postdoctoral Researcher (Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2020-2021; Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, Japan

Graduate and medical students

Victoria King – PhD Student (Psychology, Behav Neurosci), 2021 rotation; UAB graduate student, Dr. Kraguljac’s lab

Rahul Gaini – Medical Student, 2019-2021; Resident, Neurology, Duke University

Research technician and lab manager

Owen Leitzel – Researcher II, lab coordinator, 2021-2022: UAB GBS graduate student, Dr. Robel’s lab

Dania Mallah – Researcher II, lab coordinator, and MS student (BME, Psychiatry and Behav Neurobiol), 2019-2021; Computational Data Analyst, Harvard Medical School

Undergraduate students

Molly McNulty – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience), 2022

Alex Hayes – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience), 2021-2022

Alp Turgut – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2020-2021

Hector Caceres – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2019-2021

Soumya Khanna – Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience, EMSAP), 2019-2020