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.

Caitlin Lewis

clewis7@email.unc.edu

Caitlin is a senior at UNC studying Computer Science and Statistics. She has previously worked on software tools for large-scale calcium imaging analysis (mesmerize-core) and is currently helping to develop a general purpose scientific plotting library (fastplotlib). Caitlin has also worked on automated behavioral classification software used within the lab (animal-soup). In the future, Caitlin would like to continue developing software tools to aid in the visualization and analysis of scientific data.

Dhatri Kakarla

dhatrik2024@gmail.com

Dhatri graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a B.S. in Neuroscience and a B.A in Medical Anthropology. She is interested in analyzing the movement profile of children with Angelman Syndrome for a collaboration with Dr. Shen’s lab.

Aditi Shah

aditishah0428@gmail.com

Aditi is a senior at UNC studying Biology and Psychology with a minor in chemistry. She is interested in the effects of neural inhibition on reward pathways of children. In the future, Aditi would like to attend medical school to pursue a career in pediatrics or psychiatry.

Megan Gerlach

mgerlach@unc.edu

Megan is a junior 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.