Whitney A. Stevens-Sostre, PhDPostdoctoral Research Associate
Whitney is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Mrinalini Hoon's laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studies the mechanisms of circuit establishment and function within the mammalian retina. During her PhD studies she trained under the mentorship of Dr. Gail Robertson. Whitney's doctoral dissertation focused on the role of the hERG channel's cytosolic domains in slow deactivation gating.
Aarion Romany
PhD Candidate
Aarion is a 3rd year PhD candidate at the University of Maryland Baltimore School of Pharmacy. His research is focused on applying computational methods to accelerate covalent drug discovery targeting kinases and GTPases. In addition to accelerating the design of functional biomaterial based on amino polysaccharides. Outside of research, he enjoy's hiking, traveling, cooking, and eating new foods.
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Olivia Dickens, PhDSr. Associate Scientist
Olivia Dickens, PhD is an associate scientist in industry. She is interested in community outreach and science communication.
John S. Del Rosario
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Del Rosario is a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Gereau’s lab at Washington University in St. Louis. He is currently working on understanding how the peripheral nervous system adapts, maladapts, and remodels to sustain neuronal activity as a result of chronic pain conditions, specifically, in the context of ion channel dysregulation, and channelopathies.
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Cheyanne Lewis
Neurosciences PhD Student
Cheyanne is investigating how neurons in the spinal cord form locomotor circuits. She is interested in how these distinct neuron populations are generated in development and the ways in which diseases perturbate circuit balance.
Lisandra Flores Aldama
Postdoctoral Fellow
Lisandra is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Gail Robertson's laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studies hERG channel's mechanisms of gating and biogenesis. During her PhD studies, Lisandra trained under the supervision of Dr. Sebastian Brauchi at the Universidad Austral of Chile. As result of her doctoral research, she stablished an evolutionary structure- function correlate of the fast inactivation mechanism of calcium selective TRPV5 and TRPV6 ion channels.
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Jamaine Davis, PhDDr. Davis is a biophysicist trained in X-ray crystallography. The focus of his lab is to understand the molecular basis for human diseases. His work is at the intersection of genetics of disease, health disparities and structural biology. A key project in his lab is to determine how genetic variants of the ATP-binding cassette protein ABCA7 confer risk for Alzheimer’s disease, particularly among African Americans who are at greatest risk.
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Heather Pinkett, PhD
Dr. Heather Pinkett is an associate professor at Northwestern University and Director of the NIH T32 Molecular Biophysics Training Program. She studies the structure and function of ATP Binding cassette (ABC) transporters with an interest in host pathogen interaction.
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Theanne Griffith, PhD
Dr. Griffith is a neuroscientist. and received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience and Spanish from Smith College and earned her doctorate in neuroscience from Northwestern University. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of California Davis, where her lab investigates how our nervous system encodes bodily sensations such as temperature and pain.
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