Peyman Golshani, MD PhD
Principal Investigator
John Mazziotta Endowed Chair in Neurology
Professor-In-Residence, Department of Neurology
PGolshani@mednet.ucla.edu
Jiannis Taxidis
Associate Project Scientist
I use in vivo two photon calcium imaging and optogenetics to study how the hippocampus encodes information during learning of behavioral tasks requiring working memory.
jtaxidis@ucla.edu
Arash Bellafard
Postdoc
I use various techniques including optogenetics and calcium imaging to measure and manipulate neurons in cortical and subcortical areas to study neural circuits underlying working memory.
abellafard@mednet.ucla.edu
Pingping Zhao
Postdoc
I use miniscopes to understand how the nucleus accumbens, mPFC and their connected brain regions encode and drive social interaction
ppzhaoion@gmail.com
Sung Won Hur
Postdoc
I study of the cerebellum’s involvement in social behavior and how it affects cortical activity using the EScope (Miniscope + Ephys).
hurs0202@gmail.com
Ronen Reshef
Postdoc
I study the neural dynamics of spatial learning using miniaturized microscopes to record the activity of hundreds of neurons while animals are freely behaving and solving a spatial task.
RReshef@mednet.ucla.edu
Victoria M. Ho
Postdoc
I am using electrophysiology to understand cognitive dysfunction in epilepsy
VHo@mednet.ucla.edu
Karen Safaryan
Project Scientist
I use electrophysiology to explore abnormal brain oscillations and sleep in the Dup15q model of autism, intellectual disability and epilepsy.
karen.safaryan@gmail.com
Blake Madruga
Graduate Student
I design and develop a miniature multiphoton microscope to image calcium dynamics in large neuronal populations during free behavior.
blakemadruga@gmail.com
Conor Dorian
Graduate Student
I use in vivo 2-photon calcium imaging to understand how the brain encodes non-spatial information
conordorian@gmail.com
Stephanie Cheung
Graduate Student
I use two-photon chronic in vivo calcium imaging and optogenetics to investigate hippocampal CA3 time cells and to understand CA3’s role as a hub of temporal representations of memory.
stephanie.k.cheung@gmail.com
Mina Shahi
Graduate Student
I use Generalized Linear Models and network science to study learning and memory in hippocampal neural ensembles.
mi_shahi@gmail.com
Hesper Xing Chen
Research Assistant
I use miniscopes to better understand the encoding and expression of social memory in brain regions like the nucleus accumbens.
cx20122013@ucla.edu
Daniel E. Okobi
Postdoc
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dokobi@mednet.ucla.edu
Selected Lab Alumni
Tristan Shuman
Postdoc
Currently: Assistant Professor at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Daniel Aharoni
Postdoc
Currently: Assistant Professor at Department of Neurology at UCLA
Ahmet Arac
Clinical Instructor
Currently: Assistant Professor at Department of Neurology at UCLA
Pierre-Olivier Polack
Postdoc
Currently: Assistant Professor at Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience at Rutgers University
Michael Einstein
Graduate Student
Currently: Boston Consulting Group
Maria Lazaro
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
Mauricio Vallejo
Research Assistant
Currently: Postdoc at UCLA