Team

Marta Sabariego, Ph.D. - Marta Sabariego was born and raised in Jaén, Spain. She was the first in her family to go to college. She received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Jaén. During graduate school she worked under the direction of Dr. Carmen Torres investigating genetic vulnerability to frustration. Marta received several awards that allowed her to work at the University of Cagliari, Italy and the University of California, Irvine. She moved to the US to work at the laboratories of Dr. Stefan Leutgeb and Dr. Robert Clark during her postdoc, where she investigated the neuronal mechanisms of working and long-term memory storage at the systems level. Outside of the lab, she loves traveling, dancing, watching movies, and hanging out with her family and friends.


StudentS 

Kylee Miller '24

Double majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and Mathematics. Kylee is on pre-MD-PhD track who is interested in utilizing mathematics in neuroscience research. 

Vy Hoang '24

Majoring in Anthropology and  minoring in Chemistry with 5 College Certificate in Culture, Health, & Science. Vy is on premedical track and is interested in public health initiatives. 

Habiba Abouelatta '26 

Double majoring in Neurscience and Behavior and Datascience. Habiba wants to continue to do neuroscience research and is interested in getting a PhD in computational neuroscience to combine her interests.

Gaby Cordero '26 

Majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and minoring in Chemistry. Gaby is on the premedical track and is interested in pursuing research centered around neuropsychiatric disorders. 

Ainsley Gruner '26

Majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior. Ainsley is interested in applying for a PhD program in Behavioral Neuroscience, with the eventual goal of running her own lab.

Aubryn Kaine '25

Majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior and minoring in Philosophy. Aubryn is interested in studying nonverbal communication and human-animal interaction research. 

Luci Campau '25 

Majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior and minoring in Gender Studies. Luci is interested in getting a PhD in neuroscience and eventually becoming a professor. 

Oliver Aries '24 

Majoring in Neuroscience & Behavior and minoring in Biology. Oliver is interested in science communication and making science more accessible to all. 

ALUMNI

Eleftheria Vogiatzoglou '23

Lucy Anderson '23, Completed Honors Thesis, Summa cum Laude in Neuroscience & Behavior

Sarah Luiz '23

Petra Yang '23

Gabby Gagnon '24

Tracy Wen '24

Olivia Shields '24

Wenqi Zou '25

Lauren Kang '25

Saee Chitale '22, Completed Honors Thesis, Summa cum Laude in Neuroscience & Behavior

Shi Tang '22

Divna Scepanovic '22

Jennie Li '22

Grace Wallsinger '23

Deena Chohan '21

Anusha Vallepalli '22

Megi Hoxha '21, Completed Honors Thesis, High Honors in Neuroscience & Behavior 

Safa Jawad '21

Sarah Tenney '21