Mentoring students and technicians (2013-Present)

Mentorship, MCRI (Tufts Medical Center), Katz Lab (Brandeis University), and Pulakat Lab (University of Missouri), 2024

Recruited, trained, and mentored undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, MD, and PhD rotation students to both support my projects and on independent projects.


MCRI, Tufts Medical Center, MA

NamePositionActivitiesProject TitleYear
Alex MansourUndergraduateData Collection and Analysis. Co-author on manuscript (In Preparation)“Preventing systemic colistin nephrotoxicity using localized, needle-free transdermal delivery”2024-2025
Kiet DuongUndergraduateData Collection and Analysis. Co-author on manuscript (In Preparation)“Assessment of Cardiac Function and Microvascular Structure in a Rat Model of Pressure Ulcer Injury”2024-2025
Charles XuMD StudentData Collection and Analysis“Effect of human mesenchymal stem cells on foot wound in a rat model with severe diabetes”2024
Abigail WuSummer Student, Research Science InstituteData AnalysisSummer Project Thesis: “Effects of rapamycin on cardiac health and signaling in rats fed a cafeteria diet”2024
Nancy HassanSummer Student, Research Science InstituteData AnalysisSummer Project Thesis: “Effects of chemo-toxicity on iCell cardiomyocytes”2024

Brandeis University, MA

NamePositionActivitiesProject TitleYear
Vincent Calia-BoganUndergraduate ResearcherComputational Modeling and Data Analysis. Computational Neuroscience Training Grant awardee. Co-first author on manuscript (In Preparation)Undergraduate Thesis: “Investigating Intra-State Dynamics in Gustatory Cortex” (High Honors)2023-2025
Vasudeva Krishnamurthy BhatPhD Rotation StudentStatistical modelling and data analysis“Detecting state changes in local field potential”2025
Hannah GermainePhD Rotation StudentModeling and Data Analysis. Co-author on 1 published article.“Statistical validation of transition alignment in multiple neural population”2022
Victor SuarezPhD Rotation StudentData Analysis“Neural correlates of variable behavioral output to aversive tastants”2020
Jessica SteindlerPost-Baccalaureate Student/Research TechnicianHardware construction, surgery, and data collection. Co-author on 2 published articles and 1 manuscript (In Preparation)“Dynamics of the BLA-GC interaction during taste processing”2019-2021
Thomas MurdyUndergraduate ResearcherSurgery, data collection, and analysisUndergraduate Thesis: “Investigating the BLA-GC interaction in CTA acquisition” (High Honors)2020-2021

University of Missouri, MO

NamePositionActivitiesProject TitleYear
Paige BeauparlantUndergraduateData collection“Cardiovascular Protective Effects of AT2R Activation by Peptide Drug NP-6A4”2017
Laura PerryUndergraduateData collection 2017
Jamal BajwaUndergraduateData collection and analysis“Regulation of Neuroprotective MCL1 by Rapamycin and AT2R Agonists in Dopaminergic Neurons”2016-2017