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Aswati Aravind
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI study the role of mutant Huntingtin protein in disrupting transport of BDNF in striatal neurons of Huntington mouse model with the use of microfluidics and lentiviral vectors.
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Michael Eddy F Belloy
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioMy broad scientific goal is to investigate neurological disorders with the aim of identifying novel mechanisms that improve understanding of disease pathophysiology and that could lead to novel drug development. I pursue this goal by investigating the genetic risk factors of the respective disease under question, studying how they contribute to disruptions of brain function measured by in vivo imaging techniques, and how they correlate with the presentation of disease-sensitive biomarkers. Within this broader scope, my primary interest is to focus specifically on Alzheimer's disease, elucidating the genetic, molecular, and clinical spectrum of the disease, and hopefully, eventually, contributing to the path towards a cure.
I am a highly interdisciplinary scientist with experience in programming (using various scripting languages), advanced data analyses methods, neuroimaging, and studies of preclinical mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease. I also have a long-standing interest in brain function and network dynamics in both health and disease. More recently, I have further gained experience into the clinical aspects, imaging approaches, and genetics of Alzheimer’s disease. Altogether, this translates into my current research strategy in which I investigate large-scale multimodal datasets that contain information on genetics, clinical outcome measures, structural and functional brain properties, and other biomarker data.
I am currently a third-year post-doc at Stanford university, under the lead of Dr. Michael D Greicius. My main aims in this lab are to identify genetic factors that may be causative to Alzheimer's disease. Specifically, I aim to uncover genetic risk factors that interact with the Apolipoprotein E (APOE) gene to alter risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Further, I seek to identify how these genetic interactions with APOE differ by sex, age, and ethnicity. I believe this will allow the identification of novel genes relevant to Alzheimer's disease and contribute to advancing personalized genetic medicine.
During my PhD, supervised by Dr. Marleen Verhoye, Dr. Shella Keilholz and Dr. Georgios A Keliris, I worked on developing dynamic resting state functional (rsf)MRI in mice, which lead to the first observation of mouse Quasi-Periodic patterns, and related applications for Alzheimer's disease research in rodents. I still have an ongoing interest in dynamic rsfMRI research. -
Eran Blacher
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Blacher carried out his B.Sc studies in Life Sciences (2007-2010) and proceeded to Ph.D. in Neuroimmunology (2010-2015) under the Dean’s list honors direct Ph.D. program for outstanding students of Tel-Aviv University, Israel. His postdoctoral studies were carried out at the lab of Prof. Eran Elinav from the Immunology department at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (2015-2018), where he studied the role of the Microbiome-gut-brain axis in the context of neurodegenerative diseases.
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Mingyu Chung
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRegulation of cell cycle and quiescence in tissue regeneration, homeostasis, and aging.
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Prashnna Gyawali
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioI am interested in exploring machine learning and deep learning methods for biomedical applications and medical imaging. Limited availability of labeled datasets to train machine learning models and large-scale variability in the datasets are some of the common challenges that I am interested in solving for the successful use of AI in this domain. Currently, I am exploring machine learning methods for genomics, where I am particularly focused on improving prediction for disease risk for Alzheimer’s disease for minority populations.
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Sung Soo Jang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr.Jang is a passionate neuroscientist who has strong interests in investigating the mechanisms that underly neurological disorders such as Epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease (AD).
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Tahereh Kamali
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Tahereh Kamali joined Stanford University in September 2019. Her research interests primarily lie in the design of new machine learning techniques for healthcare and developing clinical decision support systems to achieve accurate as well as robust prediction particularly in case of having partially-labeled training data. Her research interests also span the areas of the biomedical signal/image processing, computer vision, intelligent assistive technologies, and affective computing.
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Jamie C. McDonald
Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Masters Student in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, admitted Autumn 2020
Fellow in MedicineBioDr. Jamie McDonald is a Senior Clinical MS/Neuroimmunology Fellow at Stanford MS Center. She is a National MS Society Sylvia Lawry Fellow for 2020-2022. Dr. McDonald completed her undergraduate degree at Cornell University followed by Master of Science in Human Nutrition at Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition. She earned her medical degree from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. As part of her fellowship, she is pursuing a masters degree in epidemiology and clinical research.
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James Stieger
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioJames earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Minnesota. His research was focused on brain computer interfaces using EEG signals. His interests lie in the intersection of machine learning and real-time brain recording. James joined the LBCN with the intent to discover how focal brain activity can be harnessed to decode brain function and how to improve it in conditions such as epilepsy.
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Kevin Wilkins
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioKevin obtained a PhD in Neuroscience from Northwestern University while working in the Physical Therapy and Human Movement Sciences Department and a BS/BA in Psychology and English from Boston College. His dissertation research focused on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying upper extremity impairments in individuals with chronic stroke and subsequent motor improvements following novel interventions. His postdoctoral work at Stanford with Dr. Helen Bronte-Stewart focuses on the neural features associated with different symptoms in individuals with Parkinson's disease using a combination of structural imaging, neurophysiology, and kinematic analysis. He was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Basic Scientists from the Parkinson's Foundation to investigate the cognitive correlates of gait impairment in Parkinson's disease.
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Kristy Zera
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioKristy did her undergraduate work at Bates College in Lewiston, ME where she received a BA in Biology in 2012. She then moved to Athens, GA where she obtained a PhD in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences from the University of Georgia in 2017. Her research investigated the role of the transcription factor HIF-1a in thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency-induced neurological damage. She joined the Buckwalter lab in late 2017 to continue researching mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroinflammation. She is interested in investigating the role of astrocytes in neuroinflammation following stroke. Ultimately, understanding how astrocytes mediate neuroinflammation in the context of disease and neurological injury may identify therapeutic targets to protect the brain following injury.
