Lab Members
Current Lab Members
















Selected Lab Alumni
Jiannis Taxidis, PhD
Associate Project Scientist
Currently: Scientist at SickKids Research Institute and Assistant Professor, Dept Physiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Sung Won Hur, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Research associate, Paul Mathews lab, UCLA
Victoria Ho, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Assistant Professor at UCLA, Department of Neurology
Daniel E. Okobi, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Medical Director of Cognitive Behavioral Medicine, AdventHealth Neuroscience Institute, Orlando, FL
Stephanie Cheung, PhD
Graduate student
Currently: MD-PhD student at UCLA
Hesper Xing Chen
Research Assistant
Currently: PhD candidate at Berkeley.
Tristan Shuman, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY.
Daniel Aharoni, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Assistant Professor at Department of Neurology at UCLA
Ahmet Arac, MD
Clinical Instructor
Currently: Assistant Professor at Department of Neurology at UCLA
Pierre-Olivier Polack, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Currently: Assistant Professor at Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University, NJ.
Michael Einstein, PhD
Graduate Student
Currently: Boston Consulting Group
Maria Lazaro, PhD
Graduate Student
Currently: AMGEN Inc.
Celina Yang
Lab manager
Currently: MD-PhD candidate at UCI
Duy Tran
Research Assistant
Currently: PhD candidate at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY.
Mauricio Vallejo
Research Assistant
Currently: Postdoc at UCLA