Trainees

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Former Trainees

Jessica M Bove

Jessica Bove is a doctoral student at the University of Florida in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. She graduated from Ursinus College in 2015 with a dual degree in Neuroscience and Psychology.

smith lab

Brittany Defeis

Understanding the impact of nutrition and metabolic factors on cognition and disease pathogenesis, to inform the development of translational interventions for improving cognition in persons with mild cognitive impairment

Maurer & Burke Labs

Nicholas Dicola

Examining how the in vivo physiology of the medial temporal lobe changes in tauopathy

Chakrabarty & Lewis Labs

Emily Koller

Exploring the interplay of aging and genetic risk factors on tau pathogenesis and synaptic dysfunction
Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Baylor College of Medicine.

lewis lab

Ariel Luz Walker

Studying the effects of repetitive mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) on the progression of taupathy, as TBI is the most robust environmental risk factor for developing dementia

Smith Lab

Priscilla Amofa

After graduating with undergrad degree in Psychology and a minor in neuroscience, Priscilla completed a 1-year service project as an AmeriCorp HealthVista for a local non-profit organization to improve and increase access to healthcare to undeserved and uninsured community members. After her service, Priscilla took a clinical research coordinator position in the Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. During this time, she also completed a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.

Tansey Lab

Drew Gillett

Woods Lab

Cheshire Hardcastle

Cheshire Hardcastle is a graduate student at the University of Florida in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology. Cheshire graduated Summa cum laude from the University of Cincinnati in 2013 with a B.A. in psychology. Cheshire then worked at the Stanford Research Institution (SRI) researching alcoholism and HIV. Cheshire then earned her Master’s in Neuroimaging for Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience from the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. Her thesis involved researching certain imaging methods to measure cerebral blood perfusion in an elderly population.

Brian Ho

Brian Ho is a doctoral student at the University of Florida in the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology.

Woods Lab

Jessica Kraft

Jessica Kraft is a neuroscience doctoral student. Her research interests include using multi-modal imaging to assess structural and functional neural correlates of cognition. Her dissertation work focuses on non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, such as tDCS on improving cognition in older adults.