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Faith Aloboudi
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am a first-year Ph.D. Neurosciences IDP Student interested in how biopsychosocial factors, like social determinants of health, impact neuropsychiatric phenotypes and disease. I hope to identify how neural circuits and social behaviors are perturbed by different environmental landscapes that challenge social group dynamics.
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Lucas Encarnacion-Rivera
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Autumn 2020
BioI am a PhD candidate in the Neurosciences program co-advised by Karl Deisseroth, MD PhD, and Liqun Luo, PhD
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Sedona Ewbank
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Autumn 2019
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in using and developing systems neuroscience approaches to improve understanding and treatment of psychiatric illnesses. My current work is focused on developing translatable, noninvasive deep brain neuromodulation through targeted delivery of psychotropic drugs via ultrasound-sensitive nanoparticles.
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Emma Follman
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Summer 2022
BioEmma is a neurosciences graduate student interested in memory and epigenetics. Her thesis advisor is Dr. Longzhi Tan, an assistant professor in the Department of Neurobiology.
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Sarah Izabel
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Summer 2022
BioSarah was born and raised in Brazil where she attended law school before moving to the United States and shifting her interest to Neuroscience. She completed majors in Biology and Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) in 2020. At VCU, Sarah was part of the NIH-IMSD program and worked on uncovering mechanisms of axonal pathology in the lab of Dr. Jeff Dupree. She also worked with a clinical sample to identify the effects of income insecurity on decision-making in people with cocaine use disorder (CUD), in the lab of Dr. James Bjork. After graduating, Sarah went to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as a UGSP Research Fellow and characterized a progranulin knockout mouse model in the lab of Dr. Alan Koretsky. She returned to her clinical research work in her second year at NIH in the lab of Dr. Vijay Ramchandani, where she worked to understand the relationship between neurological domains underlying Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). At Stanford, Sarah is interested in treating and managing neuropsychiatric disorders and increasing access to participation in clinical research studies. Sarah is a RAISE fellow, a NIDA START Fellow, and an intern project manager for the Recovery Incentives Program.
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Gabriella Muwanga
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Autumn 2019
BioGabriella Muwanga is a Neurosciences graduate student in the Tawfik and Airan labs at Stanford. She is interested in understanding acute and chronic pain mechanisms and developing therapies for acute and chronic pain through basic and translational research. Gabriella holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. She is passionate about teaching, mentorship, science communication, and fostering diversity in science. Outside the lab, she enjoys writing, singing, drawing, Bible Study, and fellowship.
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Valerie Tsai
Ph.D. Student in Neurosciences, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am a first-year Neurosciences PhD student interested in understanding the structure of social behavior—from the motor sequences that constitute an interaction to the circuits and modulatory systems that shape its neural representations, and how these collectively are disrupted in neuropsychiatric conditions.
