People

 

members of the lab in 2025
Principal Investigator

Brian Trainor, PhD, University of Wisconsin

CV; Google Scholar profile

As, PI, I am committed to creating an inclusive environment in the lab that values and respects lab members from different backgrounds and career goals. Lab members receive my support both while in the lab as well as after they move on for the next step in their careers.


Graduate Students
Audrey Chrisman, BS, Wake Forest University
Alicia Dye, BS UC Davis
Zachary Oakland, BA Sacramento State
​Valentina Cea Salazar, BS Florida State University
Rani Purewal (w/Fox lab), BA Sacramento State
 
Lab Manager
Tjien Dwyer, BS, UC Davis
 
Project Scientist
Adele Seelke, PhD Iowa
 
Undergraduate Students
Sinéad Archdeacon
Maddy Gayita
Yasmine Lewis
Elvis Ma
Nishani Maiyuran
Dana Mak
Sasha Meline
Rebecca Duenas Monterola
Kenneth Polio
Jasmine Redding
Vienna Spezza
Fennel Zimmerman


Alumni
 
Hanna Butler-Struben, Ph.D. 2024; Policy Intern California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine
 
Pei Luo, Ph.D. 2023; Research Scientist, Switch Therapeutics.

Alexia Williams, Ph.D. 2020; Senior manager at argenx

Emily Wright, Ph.D. 2020: Post-doc Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (Tian lab)

Natalia Duque-Wilckens, Ph.D. & Post-doc 2014-2018: Assistant Professor North Carolina State

Abigail Laman-Maharg, Ph.D. 2017

Katharine Campi, Ph.D. Post-doc 2010-2014; Instructor and Chair of Psychology, Sierra College​

Gian Greenberg, Ph.D. 2014, Associate Medical Director, Arbor Scientifica

Sarah Laredo, Ph.D. 2014,  Senior Medical Director, Arbor Scientifica

Michael Steinman, Ph.D. 2014, Associate Medical Director, Arbor Scientifica