Principal Investigator

 

Jeffrey Mellott

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Jeffrey Mellott, PhD

I received my Ph.D. in applied cognition and neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas, followed by postdoctoral training in neuroanatomy at the University of California Berkeley and NEOMED. I have taught neuroanatomy at the undergraduate, graduate and medical levels.

Staff

Andrew Ohl

Research Assistant

Andrew Ohl
Nick Tokar

Nick Tokar

Research Assistant

Volleyball

 

 

Graduate Students

Laila Almassri

Laila Almassri, MS

Integrated Pharmaceutical Medicine



Dakota Smallridge

Biomedical Sciences

Dakota Smallridge

 

Undergraduate Lab Members

Milena Iafrate, Kent State University (Fall 2023)

Aidan Wade, Kent State University (Spring 2024; NIH)

Kristen Crane, University of Akron (Spring 2024; Viginia Tech)

Lena Dellaria, Kent State University

Martina White, University of Akron

Gurveer Singh, University of Akron

Kylee Tenney, University of Akron

 

 

Medical Student Lab Members

Class of 2022

Lindsay Hofer
Whitney Stolnicki

Class of 2023

Oren Barat
Matt Russ

Class of 2024

Vincent Pham
Abigail Beaver
Alice Dalo
Christina Koehler
Elizabeth Slabinski
Alexa Wawrzyniak

Class of 2025

Syllissa Duncan
Justine Busby
Diana Albaba
Brenda Vega

Class of 2026

Seann Hergenrother
Joshua Harris
Erin Beskitt

Class of 2027

Madeline Guy
Gillian Barach
Sheila Rodriguez

 

 

Masters Students

Zachary Alkhayri (Spring 2024, Basic and Translational Biomedicine – Innovation; NEOMED)

 

 

Former research assistants

Amir Mafi

Amir Mafi

Amir is now a medical student at Ohio State University.

Lauren Robinson

Lauren Robinson

Lauren moved into the biotech world where she worked as an Application Scientist for Swift Biosciences, a next generation sequencing library prep company. From there she joined Illumina, a leader in the NGS space, as a Sequencing Specialist where she now serves as a technical advisor for all things sequencing.

Mitch O'Hara

Mitch O'Hara

Mitch is now a chemist working at NASA.