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 interested in investigating how we can leverage optogenetic perturbations to drive skilled behavior.

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.

Megan Gerlach

mgerlach@unc.edu

Megan is a senior at UNC Chapel Hill majoring in Neuroscience with minors in Chemistry and Data Science. She 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. After she completes her undergraduate career, she hopes to obtain a PhD in Neuroscience with a focus in the improvement of neurological disorder treatments.

Nikita Elkin

elnick@unc.edu

Nikita is a senior neuroscience student with a minor in Asian Studies and an undergraduate research assistant at Dr. Hantman’s lab. Nikita’s research interests in neuroscience encompass two primary areas: neural prosthetic devices and neurodegenerative diseases, with a particular focus on the resultant memory deficits. Within the realm of neural prosthetics, Nikita is intrigued by the development of innovative technologies that interface with the nervous system to restore lost functions or augment cognitive capabilities. Concurrently, Nikita’s fascination with neurodegenerative diseases stems from a desire to unravel the complex pathophysiological mechanisms underlying conditions such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, with a specific emphasis on understanding the neural substrates of memory impairment.

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).

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)