PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Jeremy Herskowitz
Patsy W. and Charles A. Collat Professor of Neuroscience
Center for Neurodegeneration and Experimental Therapeutics
Department of Neurology (Primary)
Departments of Neurobiology (Secondary) and
Cell/Developmental/Integrative Biology (Secondary)
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ph.D., Emory University School of Medicine
STAFF
Kelsey Greathouse
Scientist
B.S., University of Tennessee
Evan Liu
Computational Neuroscientist
B.S., Washington University in St. Louis
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Audrey Weber
Ph.D. Student (Neuroscience Theme)
PREP Scholar
NINDS T32 Fellow
NIA F99/K00 Fellow
B.S., Agnes Scott College
Derian Pugh
Ph.D. Student (Neuroscience Theme)
AMC21 Scholar
NINDS T32 Fellow
NIA F31 Fellow
SfN TPDA Recipient
B.S., Xavier University of Louisiana
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Phaedra Manuel
EMSAP student
Honors College Personalized Pathway
Bioinformatics Major
Noelle Cooper
Neuroscience Major
Personalized Pathways Honor Student
Juliana Eberhardt
Neuroscience Major
University Honors Program
Lillian Long
Neuroscience Major
Accelerated Masters in Biomedical Sciences (MBS) program
Rachitha Avatapally
Neuroscience Major
Honors College
LAB ALUMNI
Jung Vin Seo (Undergraduate Student 2020-2023)- Medical Student, UAB
Cameron Freeman (Undergraduate Student 2020-2023)- Medical Student, UAB
Courtney Walker, Ph.D. (Graduate Student 2018-2022)-Postdoctoral Fellow, Yoo Lab, Washington University
-NIA F31 Fellow
-NINDS T32 Fellow
Ashley Adamson (Researcher 2019-2021) - PhD Student, AMC21 Scholar, UAB
Hamad Muhammad (Undergraduate Student 2018-2020) Medical Student, UAB
Raksha Ramdas (Undergraduate Student 2017-2020) Medical Student, UAB
-Honors College Presidential Summer Fellow
Julia Andrade (Researcher 2019-2021) - Research Associate, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Kendall Curtis (Undergraduate Student 2016-2020)-Medical Student, University of Pittsburgh, PSTP program
-Posters on the Hill Scholar
-Honors Neuroscience Summer Research Scholar
Benjamin Henderson, Ph.D. (graduate student 2014-2019) - Postdoctoral Fellow, Hudson Alpha
-NINDS T32 Fellow
Benjamin Boros (undergraduate student 2014-2018) - MD/PhD student, Washington University St. Louis
-Barry Goldwater Scholar (2017)
-CurePSP Research Award (2017)
-Honors Neuroscience Research Scholarship Awardee (2018)
Erik Gentry (laboratory technician 2014-2017) - Medical Resident
Josue Deslauriers (SPIN student 2017)
Elizabeth Birchall (medical student 2015-2016) - Neurology Resident, UAB