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Our Team


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Greg Appelbaum
Professor
Department of Psychiatry 
Ph.D. University of California, Irvine 2004
B.A. Emory University 1995
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NeuroTree
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Itay Hadas
Neurophysiologist
Ph.D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2017



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Liam Lochhead
Research Coordinator and Staff Research Associate
MSc. Imperial College London 2019
B.A. University of San Diego 2018
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Louise Stolz
Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience Graduate Program
B.Sc. Brown University 2018
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Lindsay Benster
Ph.D Student, Clinical Psychology Joint Doctoral Program (UCSD/SDSU)
B.A. University of San Diego 2016
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Current UCSD Undergraduate Research Assistants

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Jordan Baker
B.S. Student, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science (Graduating 2022)
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​Shelby Brunenieks
B.S. Student, Cognitive Science with a Specialization in Neuroscience (Graduating 2023)
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Ted (Zeyu) Feng 
B.S. Student, Applied Math, Cognitive Science Spec. Machine Learning and Neural Computation (Graduating 2023)
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Current Undergraduate Honors Thesis Students at Duke University
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Jessica Ho
Major: Neuroscience
​Duke University Class of 2022
Successfully defended her Honors Thesis, 12/13/21
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Ashwin Subramaniam
Major: Neuroscience
Duke University Class of 2022
Successfully defended his Honors Thesis, 4/15/22

We have recently moved to UCSD and are looking to grow our team.
Please see the job page for opportunities
Recent Postdoctoral Fellows
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Sicong (Zone) Liu -- now a Fellow at U. Penn
Ph.D. Florida State University 2018
B.S. Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 2010
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Lysianne Beynel -- now a Research Scientist at NIMH
Ph.D. Laboratory of Psychology and Neurocognition, Grenoble, France 2015
B.A. University Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France 2010
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Lab Alumni (role and last known whereabouts)
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
  • Sicong Liu (Penn)
  • Lysianne Beynel (NIMH)
  • Olga Lucia Gamboa Arana (EQness) 
  • Lingling Wang (research scientist for General Electric, China)
  • Tarik Bel-Bahar (NYSPI)

Former Resident Trainees
  • Jonathan R. Young (Clinical Associate Duke Psychiatry)

Former Research Coordinators
  • Eleanor Wood (former clinical research coordinator, Peterchev Lab at Duke University)
  • Susan Hilbig (former clinical research coordinator, current PA student at Duke University)
  • Hannah Palmer (former clinical research coordinator, current PA student at Emory University)
  • Courtney Crowell (former research associate, more research in cooler climates... Utah)
  • Connor Hile (former clinical trials specialist, research specialist)
  • Alex Brito (former clinical trials specialist, Medical Student, Vanderbilt University)
  • Duy Nguyen (former clinical trials specialist, Resident in Family Medicine at Detroit Mercy Hospital)
  • Lauren Hughes (former lab manager, Nurse practitioner)
  • Kristina Krasich (former lab manager, currently in postdoc in CCN @ Duke)

Former Graduate Students
  • Miles Martinez (completing PhD at Duke)
  • Jillian Clements (American Express)

Former Undergraduate Students
  • JT Galla
  • Charlotte Johnson
  • Edem Asamoa
  • Rachel Donaldson
  • Shailen Parmar
  • Angikar Ghosal
  • Maria Naclario
  • Erikson Nichols
  • Joyce Wang (applying to med schools)
  • Amanda Watts (RA at Durham VA)
  • Wesley Lim (Masters Student, University of Texas-Houston)
  • Elayna Kirsch (Research Position, Yale University)
  • Eliza Gentzler (Medical Student, Wiel Cornell Medical Center)
  • Floyd Wilks Jr. 
  • Clara Colombatto (PhD Student, Yale University)
  • Gabriela Asturias 
  • Ben Ramger (Duke DPT class of 2018)
  • Annie Apple (Medical Student, Vanderbilt University)
  • Yvonne Lu (Medical Student, University of California, Irvine - starting residency in Psychiatry at USC in summer 2021)
  • Laura Holton (Graduate student in Physiology at Georgetown)
  • Garland Austin (Medical Student, Emory University)
  • Natasha Sakraney (Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company)
  • ​Elie Shinder 
  • Rajan Khanna (Medical student, Layola University, Chicago)
  • Kelly Vittetoe (Medical Student, Vanderbilt University)

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