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Gahtan Lab - Behavioral Neuroscience Research Lab
Principal Investigator: Ethan Gahtan
Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Biology
Functional architecture of neural circuits, neuroethology, behavioral genetics, cellular mechanisms of neurological disease, evolutionary psychology.
Lab Alumni | Curriculum Vitae | MA thesis
Research
I supervise undergraduate and Master’s students in neuroscience-related research. Topics are guided by students’ interests or relate to ongoing research in the lab. One current lab project is studying how neuronal chloride gradients influence brain activity and health, using gene editing and neuron activity recordings in zebrafish. Past research has also involved psychophysiological recordings and hormone assays in people, and computational modeling of neural circuit function.
Lab Alumni
Lab Alumni
Undergrad RA's and their post-graduation moves
- Emma Jones, PhD program in Cell, Developmental and Integrative Biology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- McKay Goh Butler, Stanford University School of Medicine, Master of Science in Translational Research and Applied Medicine
- Olivia Ortiz, Ph.D. Program in Cognition & Neural Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson
- Yared Haile, PhD Program in Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
- Maggie Baker, Doctoral program in molecular biology, Johns Hopkins University
- Aaron DeWald, University of South Dakota Medical School
- Elizabeth Gould, Doctoral program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Denver
- Kevin Simonson, Joint MD/MBA program, University of California, Irvine
- Lisa Voelker, Doctoral program in Neurobiology, University of Washington
- Masha Melnick, Doctoral program in Biology, University of California, San Diego
- Sarah Wood, Doctoral program in Psychology, Florida State University
- Ellyn Bass, Doctoral program in Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
- Samantha Sheldon , Doctoral program in Neuroscience, Boston University
- Allen Chen, Masters of Science program in Human Factors at Cal State Long Beach
- Tori Shen, UCSD Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research
- Neha Arora, CIRM (California Institute for Regenerative Medicine) scholar, Stanford University
Master’s students and their post-MA moves
- Samantha Diel, Doctoral program in Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University
- Sally Hang, Developmental Psychology Ph.D. Program at UC Davis
- Myra Mendez, Interdepartmental Neuroscience Gateway PhD program, UC Irvine
- Ryan McAuley, Neuroscience Graduate Program, The University of Texas Medical Branch
- Brian Griffiths, Doctoral program in Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston
- Nathan Helm-Burger, Doctoral program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
- Sarah Stednitz, Doctoral program in Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene
- Kristen Gallander, Doctoral program in Zoology at the University of British Columbia
- Briana Freshner, Research technician, Division of Neurology, University of Utah School of Medicine
- Trevor Caudle, Clinical Research Coordinator in Dr. Amit Etkin's lab, Stanford University school of medicine
- Benjamin Bishop, Chemistry Lab Specialist, Monterey Peninsula College
- Michael Stobb (Mathematics MS supervised by Prof Bori Mazzag), Doctoral program in Mathematics, University of California, Merced