Our Team


Principal Investigator

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Mark Sheffield Ph.D.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

DEPARTMENT OF NEUROBIOLOGY

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

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Post-Doctorates

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Seetha Krishnan Ph.D.

Ph.D. National University of Singapore

I study the hippocampus spatial map to understand how memory of a context learnt under motivation differs from that learnt under threat.

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Antoine Madar

Ph.D.

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

I study the computations performed by the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus on its cortical inputs and how they support episodic memory.

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Douglas Goodsmith Ph.D.

Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University

I study how coordination and communication between mossy cells and granule cells in the dentate gyrus support the formation and retrieval of episodic memory.

 

Graduate Students

Ariana Tortolani

CNS

BSc. Boston University

Investigating the influence of Mossy cells in the dentate gyrus on CA3 neural dynamics during learning.

Bryan Garcia

CNS

BSc. University of Central Florida

Investigating memory dynamics in dentate gyrus using 2-photon imaging and engram tagging methods.

Yizhi (Cherry) Wang

CON

BSc. MIT

Investigating how thalamic inputs interact with and modulate interneurons in CA1 to suppress fear memories.

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Anqi Jiang

CNS

B.A. Macalester College

I study the functional differences between the hemispheres in CA1 and CA3.

Julliana Ramirez-Matias

MSTP

BSc. University of Michigan


Undergraduate Students

Valerie Barreto

University of Chicago

Working with Heather

Anthony James Jr.

University of Chicago

Working with Chad

Will Carson

University of Chicago

Working with Doug and Antoine

Stacia Konow

University of Chicago

Working with Seetha


Alumni

Post-doctorates

  • Joe DiPietro - Currently working at Nikon as a Senior Biosystems Applications Manager

Graduate students

  • Can Dong - PhD in Neuroscience- currently a postdoc in Lisa Giocomo’s lab at Stanford

  • Chad Heer - PhD in Neuroscience - currently a postdoc in Toshihide Hige’s lab at UNC and a Spire Fellow

  • Yuhung Chiu - PhD in Physics

  • Heather Ratigan - PhD in Neuroscience

Undergraduates

  • Denisse morales-rodriguez - currently at UC-San francisco pursuing her MD-PhD

  • Sophia vann-adibe

  • Shai Smith

  • Roma shah

  • Mohamed Fawaz

  • Zinnia Saha

  • Phoebe Cao

  • Reilly McClanahan

Lab Technicians

  • Chery Cherian - Currently at UChicago pursuing his Ph.D. in Neuroscience with Dr. John Maunsell

  • Madeline Klinger - Currently at UC-Berkeley pursuing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience


Lab Pictures

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