Current Members

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• Senior Research Associates
• Post-Doctoral Fellows
• Visiting Scholars
• Graduate Students
• Undergraduate Research Assistants
• Undergraduate Students
• Other

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Senior Research Associates

Yuling Liang MD
liangy@bbl.med.upenn.edu

Project: Long-term effects of adolescent ketamine abuse on neuronal and glial markers, using immunohistochemistry, in-situ hybridization and stereology

 

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Post-Doctoral Fellows

Eddie Billingslea, PhD
ebill@mail.med.upenn.edu

Projects: My project focuses on understanding the role of genetic mutations in autism, specifically the role of neuroligin 4

 

Robert Featherstone, PhD
fear@mail.med.upenn.edu

Projects: Long-term effects of adolescent ketamine abuse on cognition and electrophysiology, operant EEG, animal models of cognitive deficit in schizophrenia and depression

 

Valerie Leitman, PhD
vleitman@mail.med.upenn.edu

Projects: Electrophysiological, behavioral effects of cell-type selective NMDA-receptor knockdown; Ciliary dysfunction in mouse models of schizophrenia

 

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Visiting Scholars

Takuma Mihara, PhD
Visiting from Astellas Pharma Inc., Japan
mihara@mail.med.upenn.edu

Projects: Evaluation of relationship between Amygdala activity and Emotional stimuli; The effect of oxytocin on NMDA-antagonist induced behavioral and electrophysiological deficits.

 

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Graduate Students

Robert Lin
roblin@mail.med.upenn.edu
Pharmacology PhD Student

Projects: Behavioral and electrophysiological sensitivity to dopamine and glutamate perturbations in vasopressin deficient rats as a model for social impairments in schizophrenia

 

Ankit Jain
ankj@mail.med.upenn.edu
MD/PhD Candidate

 

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Rachel Anderson
rachelan@sas.upenn.edu

Biology (Neuroscience Concentration)
Projects: Evaluating the auditory steady-state response as a biomarker for Schizophrenia 

 

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Undergraduate Students

Jaynie Anguiano

Program: Biological Basis of Behavior, Chemistry
Project: Role of genetic mutations in autism, specifically the role of neuroligin 4

 

Anthony Ciacci

Program: Biological Basis of Behavior
Project: Developmental Trajectories of Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

 

Carlos Coto

Program: Biological Basis of Behavior
Projects: The role of the basolateral amygdala in social deficits in mouse models of schizophrenia

 

Lauren Nagy

Program: Biological Basis of Behavior
Project: Long-term effects of adolescent ketamine abuse on cognition and electrophysiology

 

 

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Other

Tomas Isakowitz
Adjunct Assistant Professor