Jeremy Cohen, PhD – Senior Research Scientist

jeremy_cohen@med.unc.edu

Jian Zhong (Jay) Guo, PhD – Principal Scientist

jayzhong@email.unc.edu

Reagan Bullins

rbullins@unc.edu
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Reagan graduated from Virginia Tech with B.S. in Computational and Systems Neuroscience and minor in psychology. At Virginia Tech, Reagan worked in the English lab where she worked on investigating the validity of spike sorting methods by collecting ground-truth neural recordings. In her graduate studies, Reagan is leveraging optogenetic perturbations to manipulate neural trajectories and drive behavioral outcomes.

Yuechen Qiu

ycqiu@email.unc.edu
Co-advised with Greg Scherrer

Yuechen got her B.Eng and M.S degrees in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Duke University respectively. She then moved to San Francisco and worked in Palop Lab at Gladstone Institutes, UCSF to investigate the cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s Disease. In her graduate studies, she hopes to leveraging cortical motor circuits to elucidate opioid mechanisms of neuromodulation.

Jaesung Yoo

jsyoo61@unc.edu
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Co-advised with Kanaka Rajan

Jaesung studied Electrical Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences from Korea University. He then worked in Seoul National University Hospital building artificial neural networks (ANN) for medical AI, and MIT brain and cognitive sciences department to answer neuroscience questions using ANNs as in-silico neuroscience models. In his graduate studies, he is using ANN to model how the brain uses neural population activity to generate behavior.

Anjali Nelatoor

nelatoor@email.unc.edu

Anjali Nelatoor is a junior at UNC Chapel Hill, double majoring in Neuroscience and Community & Global Public Health. Her interests lie at the intersection of neuroscience, research, and community-based care. She is particularly passionate about understanding and addressing neurodevelopmental conditions like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Her research interests focus on improving early diagnosis, exploring innovative treatment strategies, and uncovering the underlying neurobiological mechanisms of developmental disorders. After college, Anjali plans to pursue a career in medicine, combining clinical care and research to advance equity and outcomes in neurodevelopmental health.

Caitlin Lewis

Lab Position: Undergraduate Assistant Researcher (Fall 2022 – Spring 2024)
Current Position: PhD Student at Duke University, advised by Dr. John Pearson
Lab work: Caitlin studied Computer Science and Statistics at UNC. She has previously worked on software tools for large-scale calcium imaging analysis (mesmerize-core) and contributed to a general purpose scientific plotting library (fastplotlib). Caitlin also worked on automated behavioral classification software used within the lab (animal-soup).

Megan Gerlach

mgerlach@unc.edu

Lab Position: Undergraduate Assistant Researcher (Fall 2023 – Summer 2025)
Current Position: Research Technician
Megan is interested in the intersection of neural circuitry and psychiatric conditions. Specifically, she wants to investigate how factors such as drugs of abuse may increase the risk for psychiatric and neurological condition progression, as well as the development of possible pharmaceutical treatments.

Nikita Elkin

Lab Position: Undergraduate Assistant Researcher (Spring 2024 – Spring 2025)

Aditi Shah

aditishah0428@gmail.com

Lab position: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2023 – Spring 2024)

Dhatri Kakarla

dhatrik2024@gmail.com

Lab position: Undergraduate Research Assistant (Spring 2022 – Fall 2022)