Kishore Kuchibhotla, PhD
Assistant Professor
kkuchib1@jhu.edu
Kishore grew up in Connecticut before going to MIT where he majored in Physics and Brain/Cognitive Science and minored in Political Science. He earned his PhD in Biophysics at Harvard University with Drs. Brian Bacskaiand Bradley Hyman. He then did a postdoc with Dr. Robert Froemke at NYU. In his spare time, Kishore is a bit of a political junkie having worked in Washington, DC as a policy analyst and as a consultant at McKinsey. He likes to play tennis, basketball, eat other people's cooking, and watch the latest season of [insert binge-worthy show here].
Jennifer Lawlor, PhD
Kavli Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
jlawlor3@jhu.edu
Jennifer grew up in Paris, France and received her PhD in Neuroscience from the Ecole Normale Supérieure working with Shihab Shamma and Yves Boubenec. Her work focused on the cortical representation of changes in complex, cluttered auditory scenes along the auditory pathway, She has joined the Kuchibholta Lab as well as the JHU Batlab to develop 2-photon calcium imaging in bats and study neural circuits underlying learning of flexible, context-dependent behaviors. Outside of the lab, she enjoys spending time with friends, curling up with a good book, and traveling.
Sharlen Moore, PhD
Hearing Health Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
smoorec2@jhu.edu
Sharlen grew up in Mexico and moved to Germany to do a PhD in Neurosciences. She worked at the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine with Dr. Livia de Hoz and Prof. Klaus-Armin Nave, studying the role of myelin in mice auditory processing. She then returned to Mexico to do a short postdoc at the UNAM, with Dr. Francisco Fernández de Miguel. There, she studied extrasynaptic serotonin release in the leech and participated in a project to understand how sounds modified the perception of visual art. She joined our lab to study neuromodulatory circuits that influence learning and to understand the role of astrocytes in context-dependent high-order functions. Besides science, she loves traveling, visiting museums and dancing.
Andrea Santi, PhD
Alzheimer’s Association Postdoctoral Research Fellow
asantim1@jhu.edu
Andrea grew up in Madrid, Spain, where she studied the role of IGF-I in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders with Prof. Torres-Aleman at the Cajal Institute. As a result of this work, she obtained her PhD in Neuroscience from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. She moved to Baltimore to do a brief postdoc at the Hussman Institute for Autism with Dr. Shiyong Huang, where her work focused on the effects of interneuron dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorder. She then joined the Kuchibholta Lab to understand the function of inhibitory circuits in sensorimotor learning and context-dependent memory retrieval in Alzheimer's disease. In her spare time, she enjoys hiking and biking, to travel, and taking on impossible reading challenges.
Ziyi Zhu
Kavli Distinguished Doctoral Fellow (Neuroscience)
zzhu34@jhu.edu
Ziyi grew up in Beijing, China, and obtained a BSc in Neuroscience at University of Rochester with a minor in math before starting his PhD in Neuroscience at Johns Hopkins. He is interested in combining computational and experimental approach in his research to understand dynamics in cortical circuits during sensorimotor learning. He likes playing soccer and table tennis, various video games, and enjoys classical and modern Asian literature.
Fangchen Zhu
Science of Learning Institute Doctoral Fellow (PBS)
fzhu7@jhu.edu
Fangchen is from sunny Singapore where he graduated from Yale-NUS College with a B.Sc. (Honours) in Life Sciences with a minor in Mathematical, Computational and Statistical Sciences. He is interested in understanding the neural circuits underlying contextual learning in mice. In his free time, he can be found learning sports analytics and developing a sophisticated taste in bad movies.
Aneesh Bal
PBS Doctoral Student
abal1@jhu.edu
Aneesh completed his BS at Michigan State University in Neuroscience while working in the lab of Dr. Amy Arguello on cue-induced drug seeking behaviors. After his undergrad, he spent a year working on deep-learning methods for mouse action recognition in Dr. Kay Tye’s lab at the Salk Institute. Aneesh joined both the Janak and Kuchibhotla labs in the Summer of 2021, and is interested in the neural basis of decision making, task learning, and social learning. Outside of the lab, Aneesh enjoys reading books, running, and playing basketball.
Rashi Monga
PBS Doctoral Student
rmonga2@jhu.edu
Rashi grew up in Delhi, India. She completed her Masters in Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, where she worked on classification of cervical cells with Dr. Kedar Khare. Afterwards, she switched gears to Neuroscience and Psychology. In lab, she is interested in looking at how cortical plasticity is shaped by interneurons during context dependent learning. Besides science, she enjoys literature and spending time with friends.
Su Jin Kim
Center for Hearing and Balance T32 Doctoral Fellow
sjkim1@jhu.edu
Before coming to Hopkins, Su earned her B.A. at Boston University, where she worked primarily with Karen Warkentin on hatching plasticity in red-eyed tree frogs. Upon graduating she worked with Jason Ritt (who is now at Brown) on the whisker barrel cortex. Next, with Ben Scott's endless mentorship, Su developed a repeatable, miniaturized kinematic coupling device for head-fixation of mice. Now in the Kuchibhotla Lab, she is interested in how new and mutable audiomotor memories are changed into stable memories resistant to forgetting. According to Su's GRE scores she can barely speak English or do long division, but her primary interests outside of the lab are writing & reading, making music, and amateur carpentry.
Zyan Wang
Research Technician (Lab Manager)
zwang214@jh.edu
Zyan was raised in Beijing, China and came to the US since high school. She is currently an undergraduate Neuroscience major and Psychology minor at Hopkins. In the lab, she is working with Sharlen and Angel on astrocytes-related neuromodulatory project. She enjoys playing video games, occasional writing, and taking a nap.
Lauren Williams
NIH PREP Scholar
lwill204@jhu.edu
Lauren was born and raised in South Florida before moving to Baltimore to earn her B.A. in Cognitive Science here at Johns Hopkins. She also minored in Music, Classics, and Environmental Studies and worked in Dr. Paul Ferraro’s lab, exploring the effect of peer comparisons on reducing human pressures on the environment. She is now a Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) scholar. In the lab, she studies task learning in information-deprived environments and cognitive fluctuations in individuals with dementia. Outside of the lab, she enjoys reading, napping, failing at playing video games, and wishing for the day that she can get a cat (not necessarily in that order).
Yeonjae (Angel) Lee
Undergraduate Researcher
ylee200@jh.edu
Angel grew up in South Korea, lived in Boston for two years, and now is at JHU majoring in Neuroscience. She is interested in neural circuits for learning and memory retrieval. In the lab, she studies context-dependent neuromodulation through behavioral tasks. Outside the lab, she loves watching movies, traveling, and eating good food.
Jordan Amato
Undergraduate Researcher
jamato6@jhu.edu
Jordan grew up in Long Island, NY and is pursuing a Dual Degree in Neuroscience and Voice Performance at Hopkins and Peabody Institute. In the lab, she has been working with Andrea on contextually-expressed memories in Alzheimer’s Disease mouse models. Outside of the lab, she enjoys her immunity to mosquitoes, training in classical voice, listening to cheesy show-tunes, and watching tv-shows with family and friends.
collaborators
Patricia Janak, PhD
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
PBS & Neuroscience, JHU
Patricia is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor with joint appointments in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, and in the Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience in the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her lab is interested in the behavioral and neural mechanisms of associative learning - the simple learning of relations between environmental stimuli and the outcomes they predict (Pavlovian processes) and between motor actions and the outcomes they produce (instrumental processes).
Céline Drieu, PhD (Janak Lab, Collaborator)
Kavli Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow
cdrieu1@jhu.edu
Céline grew up in a small city next to Paris, France before going up to the capital where she received her PhD in Neuroscience from the University Pierre and Marie Curie. Her PhD works, performed in the lab of Michaël Zugaro at the Collège de France, focused on the study of hippocampal cell assembly sequences in memory formation and consolidation in freely behaving rats. She has crossed the ocean to study cortical and subcortical computations underlying context-dependent learning. She is mentored by Dr. Patricia Janak as part of the Kavli Fellowship. Out of the lab, she likes to play tennis, hike and climb, discover good places to eat, and traveling.
Adam Charles, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, JHU
Adam is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at The Johns Hopkins University with affiliations at the Department of Neuroscience, Center for Imaging Science (CIS), the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute (NDI) and the Mathematical Institute for Data Science (MINDS). His lab focuses on machine learning and signal processing for neural imaging, data analysis, and other applications (including remote sensing and theoretical/computational neuroscience).
socially-distanced graduation celebration for sarah!
SFN 2019
fall crabfest 2019
Summer climbing 2019
going away party for Kelly (onto Phd at Ucsd)!
Winter holiday outing and dinner 2018
Alumni
Damola Ogunlade (Doctoral Student at Princeton Neuroscience Institute)
Aarong Wang (MD program at University of Pennsylvania)
Kylie Fuller (Research Coordinator at Stanford University
Sarah Elnozahy (Doctoral Student at UCL / SWC)
Shivani Kumaresan (undergraduate at JHU)
Kelly Fogelson (doctoral student at UCSD)
Tara Raam (postdoctoral fellow at UCLA)
Tom Hindmarsh Sten (doctoral student at Rockefeller Student)
Ina Shehu (audiology student at CUNY)
Danyal Bhutto (doctoral student at Boston University, BME)
Xioyan ‘Coco’ Li (undergraduate at JHU)