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Current lab members

Luke Remage-Healey, PhD

Brief Bio: I grew up in central Maine playing hockey and dreaming of surfing. I got my start in science as sophomore under the careful tutelage of Professor L. Michael Romero at Tufts University. This was where I became fascinated by hormones and their multitudinous roles in the body and brain. I was then fortunate to join the outstanding graduate program in Neurobiology and Behavior at Cornell University. There, I trained for my PhD with Dr. Andrew Bass exploring the neural mechanisms of vocalization in midshipman fish, and how they are modulated by steroid hormones. I completed my postdoctoral training with the incomparable Dr. Barney Schlinger at the Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology at UCLA., while also realizing the dream of learning how to surf. In the lab, we discovered the fast fluctuations in brain estrogens during social interactions that set the foundation for my independent lab. I was then fortunate to join the faculty at UMass in 2010. Current CV.

Research Interests: Steroid hormone production and action in brain circuits; Vocal production and sensorimotor learning; Neuromodulation and electrophysiology of neuronal circuits.

Jeremy Spool, PhD
K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison
For more on Jeremy's work and interests click here.
Katie Schroeder, M.S.
Graduate Student
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Program
More on Katie's work can be found here.
Hyejoo Kang, M.S.
Graduate Student
Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Lily Fahey
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Animal Care
Liz Poirier
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Animal Care
Felipe Augusto Cini Da Silva, M.S.
Graduate Student
Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Kristina Smiley
K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Cornell University
For more on Kristina's work and interests click here. And find out more about the BRAIN Initiative here.
Pamela Anderson, B.S.
Graduate Student
Neuroscience and Behavior Program

Lab Alumni

Natasha de la Rosa-Rivera, B.S.
Graduate Student
Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Following Graduation, Natasha started as a Clinical Research Associate at Medpace in Houston, TX.
Britt Mardis
Research Assistant and Lab Manager
After working as a lab manager and keeping us all in line and the lab in tip-top shape, Britt enrolled in the PhD program in Neurobiology and Behavior at UT Austin.
Sana Shah
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Sana started as a research technician at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA.
Durga Bhole
UMass College of Natural Sciences
After a brief stint as our marvelous lab manager and confocal-er extraordinaire, Durga enrolled in medical school in Australia!
Paulina Chen
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Paulina joined the Aroian lab at UMass Medical Center as a research technician.
Colin Brooks,
Research Assistant
Following graduation, Colin joined the Wellman lab at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's studying sleep.
Marcela Fernandez-Peters, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD: Cornell University
Marcela started her own lab as an Assistant Professor in the Neuroscience Department at Colorado College!
For more on Marcela's work and interests click here.
Matheus Macedo-Lima, PhD
Graduate Student - LASPAU Fellow Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Matheus is now a postdoc in the lab of Melissa Caras at the University of Maryland.
Hannah Boyd
Lab manager
Commonwealth Honors College
Hannah is now in the Neuroscience PhD program at Penn State.
Jonathan Morse, B.S.
Research Assistant and Lab Manager
Dan Pollak
Research Assistant
Commonwealth Honors College
Following graduation Dan joined the PhD program at CalTech.
Abigail Cashel
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Animal Care
Following graduation, Abby entered the program in Veterinary medicine at Tufts University
Elise Babula
Research Assistant
Following graduation, Elise joined the Master's program in Biotechnology at Northeastern University.
Sophie Elgart
Research Assistant
College of Natural Sciences
Maddy Manfredi
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Animal Care
Following graduation, Maddy entered the program in Veterinary medicine at the University of Minnesota.
Nick Ambrosio
Research Assistant
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Nick joined the Balk lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center researching Hematology/Oncology.
Zahra Alam
Research Assistant
Following graduation, Zahra joined on as a technician in the Koliatsos neuropathology lab at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Amelia Hecsh
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Amelia enrolled as a Graduate Student at George Mason University's School of Policy and Government
Rachel Frazier
Post-Baccalaureate PREP student
Rachel is now an M.D. candidate at the University of Alabama School of Medicine.
Garrett Scarpa
Graduate, UMass College of Natural Sciences
Former Lab Manager
Garrett is now in the PhD program at Tufts University Medical School
Catherine deBournonville, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD: University of Liege
Catherine is now a Senior Scientist in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Liege
Violet Ivan
UMass College of Natural Sciences >br> After graduation, Violet joined Rockefeller University as a research scientist in molecular genetics and neuroscience.
Anna De La Cruz
UMass College of Natural Sciences
After graduation Anna enrolled in Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.
Daniel Vahaba, B.S.
Graduate Student
Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Dan is now a Research Communication Scientist at the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences.
Vanessa Indeglia
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation Vanessa enrolled in veterinary medicine at Tufts University.
Tessa Oliver
Commonwealth Honors College
After graduating with honors, Tessa joined as a clinical research coordinator at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Newton, MA.
Amelia Ho
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation Amelia enrolled in veterinary medicine at Tufts University.
Miranda Senft
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation Miranda enrolled in veterinary medicine at Cornell University.
Kyssia Mendoza
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following gradution Kyssia joined the Ricci lab at Stanford University as a research technician.
Aiden McGrath
UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation Vanessa enrolled in veterinary medicine at Tufts University.
Amanda Krentzel, B.S.
Graduate Student
Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Amanda is now a postdoc in the lab of John Meitzen at NC State University.
Olivia Li
UMass College of Natural Sciences
After graduating with honors, Olivia joined the lab of Bradford Lowell at Harvard Medical School.
Maaya Ikeda, PhD.
Graduate Student
Molecular and Cellular Biology
Program
Maaya is now a postdoc in the lab of Todd Roberts at UT Southwestern
Vanessa Lee
UMass Commonwealth Honors College
After graduating with honors, Vanessa enrolled in medical school at UMass Worcester, following a stint as a technician in the lab of Mariana Pereira.
Christina Moschetto and Jessica Neves
UMass College of Natural Sciences Following graduation Christina enrolled in Veterinary Medicine at the University of Minnesota, and Jessica joined Benchmark Senior Living as a Program Coordinator.
Era Koroveshi
Following graduation with honors, Era began a position at Charles River Laboratories.
Ben Pawlisch, PhD
Ben was a postdoc in the lab and is now an Assistant Professor in Biology at Adrian College.
Joseph "Rudi" Starrett, BS
UMass Commonwealth Honors College Graduate
Rudi was an undergraduate and then lab manager. He is now enrolled in the neuroscience graduate program at the University of Michigan.
Dana Moseley, PhD
Collaborator
Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Program.
Dana became a Smithsonian Postdoctoral Fellow, and is now on the faculty at James Madison University.
Ifeyinwa Arinze
Graduate: Mt. Holyoke College
Following graduation Ify accepted a position as a lab manager for the Moorman lab.
Victoria Turner
Graduate: Amherst College
Following graduation, Victoria took a position as a technician in a laboratory in Japan.
Thomas Cao
Graduate: UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Tom took a technician position at a Clinical Science Lab in Mansfield, MA.
Sung David Jeon
Honors Graduate: Amherst College
Following graduation, David enrolled in medical school at the University of Rochester.
Clemens Probst
Graduate: UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Clemens took a position as a research technician at Mass General Hospital.
Aaron Karp
Graduate: UMass Commonwealth Honors College
Following graduation, Aaron took a position as a Research Fellow at the Sustainable Endowments Institute
Ashley Paon, B.S.
Ashley is currently in Boston, MA preparing for neuropsychology graduate programs.
Mike Stefanelli Graduate: UMass College of Natural Sciences
Following graduation, Mike took a position at Life Cell Corporation.
Narendra Joshi
Honors Graduate of Amherst College
Following graduation, Narendra took a position at Columbia University in the lab of Richard Axel, and is now enrolled in the neuroscience graduate program at Harvard University.
Laura Bernal-Corzo
UMass Commonwealth Honors College
Diane Kelly, Ph.D.
Senior Research Fellow
Neuroscience and Behavior Program More on Diane's Research
Andrew Chao
Andrew was our lab manager when the lab was just hatching in 2010, and we all became gratefully well-provisioned. After leaving the lab, Andrew began his studies in veterinary medicine at UC Davis.