Lab Directors
Chad Sylvester, MD, PhD (SEAL)
Michael Perino, PhD (SHARK)
Rebecca Schwarzlose, PhD (SQUID)
M. Catalina “Cat” Camacho, PhD (CRAB)
Staff
Clinical Research Coordinators
Victoria Brooks, LCSW
Shelby Kessler, BS
Molly Mendoza, LCSW
Professional Raters & Technicians
Emily Bax, BA, BFA
Berklea Going, BA
Gabriella Kellerman, BA
Katie Lee, BS
Christina Luo, MS
Stevie Overschmidt, BS
Kathy Pope, MEd, LPC, NBCC
Programmers
Ramone Agard, BS
Joey Scanga, BS
Clinical Research Specialist
Karen Lukas, RN
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Carolyn Lasch, PhD
Julia Moser, PhD (joint with UMN)
Students
Graduate
Leda Balogh, BS (DBBS Neurosciences PhD program; rotation student)
Sam Blake, BS (DBBS Neurosciences PhD program; rotation student)
Andrew Goldberg, BS (Medical Scientist Training Program; rotation student)
Alyssa Labonte, BS (DBBS Neurosciences PhD program)
Darby Le, BS (Medical Student)
Mei Murphy, BS (DBBS Neurosciences PhD program, rotation student)
Obed Usenbor, BS (Applied Health Behavior Research MS program)
Undergraduate
Kaylee Baek (Biology)
Vicky Cadena (Biology: Neuroscience)
Caden Coleman
Elina Deshpande (Biology: Neuroscience)
Ari Djemal Rukin (Biology: Neuroscience)
Emilia Feria
Connor Gusky
Halle Hirshman (Mechanical Engineering)
Natalie Huttner (Anthropology)
Jeff Hwang (Biomedical Engineering)
Martin Ibarra
Kevin Jia
Raghav Kale
Mahika Kanchanam (Biology: Neuroscience)
Andrew Kim
Leo Liao (Biochemistry)
Jade Mehta (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience)
Harin Moon
Jasmine Najari (Biology)
Kate Smith
Augustina Sun
Nissi Yorke (Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology & Global Studies)
Alex Zhang (Biology: Neuroscience)
External Trainees
Emily Furtado, BS (UMN ICD Clinical Psychology PhD student)
Sanju Koirala, BA (UMN ICD Developmental Psychology PhD student)
Sahvannah Michaud, BS (UMich Developmental Psychology PhD student)
Yanbin Niu, MS (Vanderbilt Developmental Psychology PhD student)
Sanjana Ravi, MA (Vanderbilt Clinical Sciences PhD student)