Professional Interests: Supporting investigator-driven studies and efficient day-to-day lab operations through research coordination, workflow organization, mentoring and supervising new students, protocol management, inventory and equipment oversight, and enhancing collaborative neuroscience research environments.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I love travelling to new places and experiencing different cultures around the world, cooking, and gardening which brings me peace and happiness.

Professional Interests: I'm interested in how associations between cues and reward outcomes form and are maintained in the lateral visual association cortex using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I enjoy collecting and selling Pokemon cards, I’m a matcha enthusiast, and I like watching YouTube and twitch streams while I do work.

Professional Interests: I am a pre-med student working with Alvin and helping understand the physiological changes behind locus coeruleus norepinephrine release during visual learning. I am interested in neurology and how public health intersects with clinical medicine!

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I enjoy running in my free time, baking (fun fact I used to have a cookie business), and travel.

Professional Interests: I’m interested in how sleep promotes motor learning! I’m currently working on understanding the role of dopamine and acetylcholine in the striatum during sleep and after learning. I use fiber photometry and optogenetics in combination with behavioral and sleep recordings.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I’ve been an Irish dancer for almost 20 years, most recently, with Leim Irish Dance, a club here at UM! I also love to bake; my specialties are garlic bread and banana muffins. In my free time, I’m working on visiting every park in Ann Arbor— I’ll be rating them all on a 30-point scale!

Professional Interests: I’m currently working with Alvin on studying locus coeruleus norepinephrine changes when it comes to visual learning! I am also applying to dental school and hope to one day do family or pediatric dentistry and academic/teach in dentistry.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I discovered my love for dentistry from doing nails and working on histology here in the Burgess Lab! I also was an ice dancer for 10 years for UMich, played piano for 15 years and competed nationally, and am a Beli lover.

Professional Interests: I am a pre-med student and one day hope to be a surgeon! In lab, I work with Brandon on studying the mechanisms of REM sleep regulation.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I love to watch crime documentaries, play the violin, and eat a lot of food!

Professional Interests: I’m interested in how monoaminergic systems regulate healthy and disordered sleep, with a focus on REM sleep phenomenon.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: Busy everyday watching sports, biking, and playing chess.

Professional Interests: I’m interested in individual differences in motor skill with a focus on basal ganglia cortico-striatal circuitry.

Hobbies/Fun Facts: I enjoy doing anything outside (running, hiking, boating, camping, etc.), I have an unhealthy love of coffee, and I enjoy trying new restaurants.

Sarah Golidy, MD: R1 @ the University of Toledo

Sierra McClaim, DVM, MPH, MS: Cardiology Resident @ Atlantic Coast Veterinary Specialists

Chris Phillips: PhD student @ UT Dallas

Annie Taylor: PhD Student @ UCSF

Tim Cha: Veterinary student @ Michigan State University

Courtney Meyers: PhD student @ UMich

Hannah Lyons: PhD student @ McGill University

Lorelei Baron: PhD student @ UMich

Mohammed Rasheed: MD candidate @ Chicago Medical School

Kaan Gurun

Lexi Faulkner, PhD: Evident Scientific

Katie Furman, PhD: Michigan Medicine Fellow

Robert Zhang

Katlynn Emaus, PhD: Postdoc @ University of Colorado

Makaila Furderer, MS: Physical Therapy Technician

Joey Sanjya

Pio Lee: MD Candidate @ Cornell University

Allie Mallouk

Drew Michelini: Software Engineer

Lucia Kim: MD Candidate@ University of Michigan

Swathi Karthik: PhD @ Stony Brook University

Rayna Reddy: MD Candidate @ University of Queensland

Elizabeth Pappas: MD Candidate @ University of Oklahoma

Katie Chang: MD Candidate @ Johns Hopkins

Selina Li: PhD student @ the University of Michigan

Jack Evans: MD Candidate @ Oakland University

Anna Goforth: Master’s student @ University of Wisconsin-Madison

Austin Chen

Sarah Fechtali: Undergraduate at UT Permian Basin

Victoria Ortiz: Lab technician @ Harvard Medical School

Natasha Selektor

Amulya Jonnalagadda: Medical Assistant

Chris Wierenga

Eitan Frankowitz: Associate Researcher @ Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine

Alexandra Jack

Elena Fernandez