2021 Cohort
Courtney Dye
Mentors: Katy Lenz and Benedetta Leuner
Research Interests: understanding how chronic stress contributes to the onset of neuropsychiatric disorders, and more specifically how the immune and endocrine systems interact to mediate these outcomes.
Stephanie Muscat
Mentor: Ruth Barrientos
Research Interests: Memory deficits which disproportionately affect the aging population.
2020 Cohort
Zoe Tapp
Mentors: Olga (Niki) Kokiko-Cochran and Jonathan Godbout
Research Interests: How sleep disturbances, specifically sleep fragmentation, influence inflammatory and stress responses after TBI to contribute to long-term cognitive deficits and neuropathology.
Wenyuan (Ren) Yin
Mentors: Jonathan Godbout and John Sheridan
Research Interests: Understanding how neurovascular endothelial cells contribute to the neuroimmune response to stress.
2019 Cohort
Helen Chen
Mentor: Tamar Gur
Research Interests: Role of inflammation and tryptophan and serotonin metabolism in the effect of prenatal stress on offspring neurodevelopment.
Lars Nelson
Mentor: Katy Lenz
Research Interests: How the immune system influences early brain development.
Isabella Palazzo
Mentor: Andrew Fischer
Research Interests: Understanding mechanisms that mediate retinal regeneration.