Meet the Lab
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Steve Mennerick, PhD
Principal Investigator
I enjoy working with trainees, staff, and collaborators to advance projects that will yield new information about neuronal communication and that will spur insight into health and disease.
Xinguo Lu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ann Benz
Lab Manager
I participate in virtually all projects by managing the lab, preparing cultures, performing surgeries, and imaging specimens.
Peter Lambert
MD/PhD Student
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Sofia Salvatore
Research Technician
Jenny Shu, MD,PhD
Senior Scientist
My main interests are in neurosteroid modulation of GABA receptors. I’m also exploring the transcription changes in neurons to various environmental and genetic changes.
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Michele Barraco
Graduate Student/Visiting Researcher
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Richard Ni
Research Technician
Collaborators
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellow
Catherine Wasser, PhD
Min-Yu Sun, PhD
Fellow
Joshua Hogins, DO
George Elias, MD
Dissertation Student
Tina Chang, PhD
Courtney Sobieski, PhD
Undergraduate
Christopher Fields
Andrew Yu
Kyle Wu
Daniel Chen
Daniel Giuffra
Micah Keiser
Monika Martinek
Jay Mohan
Isaac Mordukhovich
Carson Platnick
Forrest Whiting
Natasha Warikoo
Luke Ziolkowski
Omkar Venkatesh