People

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
Tiff Lam, BS, UC Davis

Honorary Project Scientist

Adele Seelke

Undergraduate Students

Audrey Alday

Jayden Galvan

Maddy Gayita

Jacob Gonzalez

Tatev Hambardzumyan

Nishani Maiyuran

Dana Mak

Sasha Meline

Kaitlyn Mier

Rebecca Duenas Monterola

Ariel Padovitz

Kenneth Polio

Jaden Sharief
Andrew Woodcock

Serena Yin

Fennel Zimmerman

Alumni

Hanna Butler-Struben, Ph.D. 2024; Policy Intern California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine

Pei Luo, Ph.D. 2023; in vivo Neuroscientist, GemPharmatech.

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: Obituary, Academic Memorial

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, Director, GSW

Sarah Laredo, Ph.D. 2014, Senior Scientific Director, Healthcare Consultancy Group

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