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Denis Paré

Principal Investigator

Dr. Denis Paré, Distinguished Professor, Director, Center for Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience


Mohammad M. Herzallah

Research Associate

Research project: Regulation of the amygdala by the midline thalamus Founder and director, Palestinian Neuroscience Initiative at Al-Quds University in Palestine


Alon Amir

Research Associate

Research projects: 1. Contextual visual discrimination task in rodents 2. Closed-loop optogenetic control of gamma oscillations and emotional learning


Shumsuzzaman Khan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Research project: Differential output connectivity and activity coordination within the functional architecture of the BLA


Luisa Fernanda Gomez-Alatorre

Doctoral Candidate

Research project: Signaling of salience and prediction errors by the anterior insula


Mohamed Badawy

Doctoral Candidate

Research project: Information Coding in Local Field Potentials, Oscillations, and Units: Individual Differences and Comparisons across Tasks and Species Neural coding through oscillations. Neural coding of tasks variables by unit


Zeynep Sen

Doctoral Student (Rotation)

Research project: Connectivity and functional properties of engram neurons in the basolateral amygdala


Season (Tian) Qiu

Doctoral Student

Research project: Interested in reward-guided & value-based decision making (concurrently in the MIMO lab)


Osmalyn Urena

Research Assistant

Research project: Axonal collateralization of basolateral amygdala neurons


Maria E. Liberador Dos Santos Nunes

Research Assistant

Research projects: 1. Closed-loop optogenetic control of gamma oscillations and emotional learning 2. Contextual visual discrimination task in rodents