Tiffany Chen, BSc
Tiffany is a postbaccalaureate IRTA fellow at the National Institutes of Health. She is in her second year as a fellow in the Sidransky lab. Tiffany received a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University. There, she completed an honors research thesis investigating the role of pyrethroid pesticide exposure on nigrostriatal dopamine receptors, and discovered a significant increase in striatal D1 receptors. She received Highest Honors for her thesis.
Avika Chopra
Avika is a PhD student in the field of Neurosciences at the University Medical Centre Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen. She is affiliated with the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS), Göttingen Neuroscience program. She did her Master's in the field of Neuroscience and received a scholarship via the IMPRS program. She has a bachelor's in Biochemistry from the University of Delhi, Delhi, India.
Aslan Cook, BA
Aslan is a Research Assistant in the Harper Lab at Harvard Medical School. She completed her undergrad at MIT in biology, where she studied membrane trafficking in Drosophila. She is interested in using cell biology to understand neurobiological dynamics. She is applying this cycle to PhD programs in cell biology and neurobiology.
Sadik Elshani, MSc
Sadik is a PhD student in the University of Dundee within the MRCPPU unit. He graduated from the University of Dundee with a MSc in Biomedical and Molecular sciences.
Renuka Gupta, MSc
Renuka has 6 years of experience maintaining and working with hESCs and iPSCs . She has been part of projects that involved reprogramming patient fibroblast and PBMCs into iPSCs using viral vectors (Sendai virus , Retrovirus and Lentivirus), and also studying molecular mechanism congenital heart diseases and embryonic heart development through differentiation of iPSCs and hESCs into cardiomyocytes.
Janna Jernigan, PhD
Janna is a recent PhD graduate from the university of Florida with extensive experience in understanding the role of chronic systemic inflammation on the immune system in and around the brain. Janna has been proud to run two regional SfN chapter conferences for the North Central Florida Chapter of SfN and interact with students as a summer course instructor.
Sophia Lehrman
Sophia is a senior undergraduate research assistant in the Sanders lab at Duke University. She has been a member of the Sanders lab since freshman year.
Lyndsey Lipson, BSc
Lyndsey is a research technician at Emory University at the Sampson Lab. She graduated with a BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology with Highest Honors.
Gabriele Strusi, PhD
I am a Research Associate at Spillantini's Lab where I plan to investigate the spreading of alpha-synuclein from the gut to the brain, elucidating the role of LRRK2. I recently completed a PhD in Biomedical Science at the University of East Anglia where I investigated the relevance of isothiocyanate to improve the efficacy of kinase inhibitors in hepatocellular carcinoma. Before that I studied new ways to improve the biocompatibility of synthetic polymers for the growth of human primary fibroblast for regenerative medicine applications at the Tissue Engineering lab of the University of Sheffield. My background lies on a bachelor's degree in Biotechnology that I undertook at the University of Sassari. I completed the BSc degree after an internship at the University of Southampton with a thesis on the use of a software to identify novel copy number variants in exome data from patients affected by inflammatory bowel disease.
Yirong Xu
I am a researcher specializing in immunology and molecular biology, with a primary focus on the interactions between the microbiota and the immune system, as well as the relationship between the genome and Parkinson’s disease. I have extensive experience using advanced techniques such as flow cytometry, immunohistochemistry, and gnotobiotic murine models to study the the relationship between the genome and neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s.
