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Carla Abdelnour
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioOriginally from Caracas, Venezuela, Dr. Carla Abdelnour received her medical degree at the Central University of Venezuela, and then completed her neurology residency training at the University Hospital Príncipe de Asturias in Madrid, Spain. She conducted her doctorate in Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona working with Drs. Dag Aarsland, Javier Pagonabarraga and Jaime Kulisevsky. Her thesis focused on the influence of Alzheimer´s disease copathology in atrophy patterns, longitudinal cognitive decline, and heterogeneity of patients with dementia with Lewy bodies.
Carla´s main interest is the study of neurodegenerative diseases, especially Lewy body disease. As a Sue Berghoff LBD Research Fellow, her plan is to investigate the impact of different comorbidities in the clinical presentation, cognitive profile, and disease progression of Lewy body disease. Additionally, she wants to study the biological underpinnings of prodromal Lewy body disease to identify potential biomarkers for diagnosis and prognosis. -
Sumana Bhowmick
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioMy main research interests focus on isolation and characterizing novel compounds and producing them with sufficient purity to be tested in biological systems followed by target discovery the use of '-omics' technologies.
My aim is to get associated with a challenging position within an organization wherein I can use my skills to the optimum level and at the same time get an opportunity to enhance my knowledge and pursue skills for further research work. -
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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Rachel Crockett
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioRachel completed her BSc in Psychology and MSc in Brain Imaging and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Birmingham, UK. She then completed her PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of British Columbia, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Teresa Liu-Ambrose. Her PhD work utilised lesion network mapping to investigate the functional networks disrupted by cerebral small vessel disease, its relationships with cognitive and mobility impairment, and the use of resistance training to target disease progression. She is now a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Human Motor Control and Neuromodulation Lab under the supervision of Dr. Helen Bronte-Stewart. In this role, Rachel will use diverse neuroimaging methodologies to evaluate neural targets for deep brain stimulation to treat cognitive impairment in people with Parkinson’s Disease.
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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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Behzad Iravani
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioI received my PhD in medicine from Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. My main research interest concerns accurate function mapping of the human frontal lobe, specially the medial and orbital parts where the non-invasive methods lose accuracy. Ultimately my research strives to improve mental health using combination of functional mapping and direct cortical stimulation.
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Sung Soo Jang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr.Jang is a neuroscientist who has a strong passion and interests in investigating the mechanisms that underlie neurodevelopmental disorders such as Epilepsy and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). He is not a scientist who dreams of building success career through science, but instead of becoming a innocent and pure brain researcher who loves scientific discovery itself and wants to help patients suffering from Neurological disorders through academic observations.
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Tahereh Kamali
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAI for Healthcare, Neuroimaging, Biomarkers Development
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Xiwei She
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioDr. Xiwei She is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Neurology. He received his B.S. degree in Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013, and his M.S. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 2016. Worked as a research assistant at the USC Neural Modeling and Interface Laboratory, he received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2022. After graduation, he joined Stanford University as a postdoctoral scholar at the Pediatric Neurostimulation Laboratory (Baumer Lab) and Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute.
His research interests are largely directed toward identifying the causal relationship of neurons/brain regions and understanding how information is encoded in neural signals by employing machine learning models. Specifically, his postdoc research focuses on applying machine learning modeling techniques on EEG and TMS-EEG data to better understand the impact of interictal epileptiform discharges (IEDs) on brain activity in children with childhood epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (CECTS). -
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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Minhui Su
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioMinhui Su, PhD is a postdoctoral fellow at the Neurology Department. She is investigating neuronal activity-regulated glioma growth, specifically how membrane depolarization regulates glioma growth in the tumor microenvironment.
She obtained her PhD in Molecular Biology, with a focus on neuroimmunology, at the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) at Georg August University Göttingen, Germany. Her PhD research discovered that inflammation is an essential early step of myelin regeneration, and uncovered the roles of microglia (the resident immune cells of the central nervous system) in myelin damage response.
She enjoys science, art and hiking in her free time. -
Sergei Tugin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDeviation of the brain functioning can result in severe repercussions to the human body, up to and including disability. Noninvasive diagnostic and treatment tools, such as TMS and EEG, have vast potentiation in the treatment of neurological deviations such as epilepsy and depression. The current protocols induced contradictory results and are therefore slow to be accepted into mainstream clinical practice. My primary interest is to investigate the neurophysiological sources of this variability.
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Gil Vantomme
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
BioI am a postdoctoral fellow interested in studying synaptic physiology and dysfunctions. My researcher focuses on thalamocortical circuits involving cortical structures relevant for cognition and executive function. Taking advantage of mouse models of autism spectrum disorder and epilepsy, I aim to uncover defects in synaptic function that underlie these disorders.
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Daniel Zamler
Postdoctoral Scholar, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsWorking on the interface of Brain Tumors and Computer Science
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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.
