Principal Investigator

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.

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Staff

Nick Tokar

Research Assistant

Volleyball

Graduate Students

Laila Almassri, MS

Integrated Pharmaceutical Medicine

Dakota Smallridge

Biomedical Sciences

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 (Spring 2025; HistoTech at Pittsburgh Allegheny)
Martina White, University of Akron
Gurveer Singh, University of Akron
Kylee Tenney, University of Akron
Madelyne Fernandez, 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

Sean Hergenrother
Joshua Harris
Erin Beskitt

Class of 2027

Madeline Guy
Gillian Barach
Sheila Rodriguez
"Sofia" Perez

Class of 2028

Hager Hamed
Gina Frigic
Kaitlyn Persuric

Masters Students

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

Former research assistants

Amir Mafi

Amir is now a resident at Baylor College of Medicine.

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 is now a chemist working at NASA.