Research Staff
Rowan Gargiullo - Lab Manager
Rowan received a psychology BS at Stony Brook University and previously worked as a lab technician at the CDC's HPV serology lab and at MNG Laboratories. Rowan also has some engineering experience from post-bac courses at GSU Clarkston, working at VCO Systems, and playing at the Freeside Atlanta makerspace.
Graduate Students
Cedric Bowe
Cedric is a student in the MD/PhD program at Emory. He will complete his PhD dissertation in our lab as part of the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Abigail McElroy
Abigail is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Lucas Williamson
Lucas is a PhD student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Sukrith Sriram Vedapuram
Sukrith is a Master’s student in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Undergraduate Researchers in the PAC Lab
Jessica Mai
Jessica is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory. She completed the FYRE program and is doing research credit in the lab through the Neuroscience Program.
Eliana Pollay
Eliana is majoring in Sociology at Emory University. She is doing research credit in the lab through the Neuroscience Program.
Valentina Esho
Valentina is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and also in Chemistry at Emory University.
Joseph Chung
Joseph is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University.
Kai Park
Kai is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology with a minor in Philosophy at Emory University.
Cici Liang
Cici is majoring in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Previous Lab Members
James Song
James is majoring in Computer Science in the “4+1” combined Bachelor’s / Master’s program. He worked as a QTM Fellow in our lab during Fall 2023.
Osama Hussein
Osama is majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, with a minor in Anthropology, at Emory. Osama is also doing his honors thesis in the lab.
Megan Zheng
Megan is majoring in Economics and Human Health at Emory. She is completing research credit with the Human Helath program in our lab.
Nia Walker
Nia is an undergraduate student at University of Maryland - Baltimore County (UMBC) majoring in Public Health. She is an LGS-SOAR scholar who is working in our lab for the summer of 2023.
Carrissa Morgan
Carrissa is an undergraduate at Albany State University majoring in Biology, and worked with us for the summer of 2022 through the SOAR program at Laney Graduate School.