People
Faculty, Organizations, Students, Staff, Collaborators, Alumni
Faculty
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Alberto Vazquez, Ph.D.
Lab Director, Associate Professor of Radiology, Neurobiology and Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh
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Mitsuhiro Fukuda, Ph.D.
Lab Co-Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology
University of Pittsburgh
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Alexander Poplowski, Ph.D.
Instructor of Radiology
University of Pittsburgh
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Tao Jin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Radiology
University of Pittsburgh
Organizations
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Neurovascular Collaborative Cluster
The Neurovascular Coupling Collaborative Cluster is a cross-institutional multi-disciplinary group that seeks to inform our local community and bring together researchers interested in neurovascular interactions. This group is supported by the Pitt & CMU’s Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC).
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Pop Coding Cluster
The Population Coding Collaborative Cluster is another CNBC supported group that aims to inform and bring together researchers interested in the acquisition and analysis of neural data.
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Pitt ADRC
Pittsburgh’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) houses and supports clinical, education and research programs. This organization has been a strong supporter and advocate of imaging.
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Pitt AIC
The University of Pittsburgh’s Animal Imaging Center (AIC) houses two animal MRI systems (9.4 Tesla and 11.7 Tesla) for brain and body imaging. Located next to the Neuroimaging Laboratory has facilitated numerous projects and collaborations with our group.
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CNBC
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition brings together students and faculty from Pitt and CMU participating in neuroscience research.
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LatiNeuro
A place for Latinx neuroscience researchers to share experiences, ideas and establish community.
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Pitt Radiology
Radiology Department website of clinical and research divisions.
Meet the Team
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Christopher Cover, M.S.
MSTP Student
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Fernanda Juarez
Graduate Student
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Jiwon Kim
Graduate Student (CNUP)
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Syeda Tabassum
Post-Doc (NIL/Manole Labs)
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Andrew Toader
Post-bac Researcher
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Owen Clemens-Regan
Undergrad Researcher
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Dani Laverti
Undergraduate Researcher
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Mohith Gollapali
Undergraduate Researcher
Collaborators
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Bistra Iordanova, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
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X. Tracy Cui, Ph.D.
Professor of BioEngineering, NeuroTechnology Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
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Takashi Kozai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of BioEngineering, BIONIC Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
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Sarah Ross, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsbrugh
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Jana Kainerstorfer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
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Mioara Manole, M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh
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Ken Fish, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
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Afonso Silva, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology, Translational Neuroimaging Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh
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Milos Ikonomovic, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
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Michael Gold, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
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Xiaoming Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
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William Klunk, M.D. Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh
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Oscar Lopez, M.D.
Professor of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh
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Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of the Center for Neuroimaging Research (CNIR) of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon Korea
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Sheffield Neuroimaging Lab
Jason Berwick, Ph.D. and Clare Howarth, Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield, Sheffield UK
Alumni
Harsha Sridhar, M.S.
CMU Master’s Student mentored jointly with Jana Kainerstorfer. Characterized NVC changes with body position.
Catherine Ruff, Ph.D. D.V.M.
CNUP PhD student in the Ross Lab and our group. She characterized Tacr1 neurons and their ability to regulate CBF.
Umer Nissar, M.D.
Visiting scholar, helped get our longitudinal AD project off the ground. Acquired extensive longitudinal data from AD mice.
Juan Cortez, M.S.
CMU Master’s Student mentored jointly with Jana Kainerstorfer. Characterized NVC changes with body position.
Jenna Peretin, B.S.
Undergraduate and post-bad researcher that led our work on synaptic contributions to blood flow regulation. Now in medical school at Drexel University.
Michael Krawchuk, B.S.
Undergraduate researcher, led our initial work on inhibitory neurons and CBF.
Alain Altamirano, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellow that led our project implementing optogenetic silencers and tested the role of excitatory neurons on NVC.
Matthew Murphy, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellow that led projects ranging from imaging vision to rodent imaging and network analyses.
Young Kim, B.S.
Bioengineering Undergraduate student that implemented body and pupil tracking using Raspberry Pi and Deep Lab Cut.
Meghan Carlton, B.S.
Undergraduate researcher, led the mid-phase of our AD imaging project and our early tests on AD and stimulation.
Jessica Getz, B.S.
Undergraduate researcher, helped lead our effort on awake mouse fMRI.
Jordan Williams, M.D. Ph.D.
Post-doctoral fellow that led a project on optogenetic stimulation of peripheral muscles.
Constance Robbins, Ph.D.
Post-doctoral researcher now a special Faculty Member in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Meehan, B.S.
Undergraduate researcher, characterized parenchymal and vascular amyloid plaques for our CAA project.
Harris Chisti, B.S.
Undergraduate researcher, helped lead our effort on awake mouse.
Lauren Nedrow, B.S.
Undergraduate researcher, helped lead our effort on Alzheimer’s mice
Adiya Rakymzhan, Ph.D.
Graduate student in our lab that led our work on PV neuron contributions in blood flow regulation. Now a post-doctoral researcher Dr. Laura Lewis laboratory.
