• Reesha Patel, Ph.D.

    Principal Investigator

  • Francesca Massa

    Research Technician

  • Ashley Holloway, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow
    NIH D-SPAN Scholar

  • Dahee Jung, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Ana Farias Waltrick, Ph.D.

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jenny Klein

    NU Undergraduate Student

  • Claire Cho, B.S.

    NUIN Graduate Student

  • Aarushi Mittal

    UIUC Undergraduate Student

  • Morgan Chaljub

    NU Undergraduate Student

Lab Alumni.

  • Jenna Lee, B.S.

    NU Undergraduate Honors Thesis Student
    Next Step: NIH Postbac

 Open Positions.

  • Lab technicians

    We are looking for lab technicians with undergraduate experience and interested in learning neuroscience techniques related to molecular biology, rodent behavior, and more. If interested, please email a curriculum vitae or resume and contacts for references.

  • Graduate Students

    We are actively seeking rotation students, if you are interested in mental health, social factors, or neuroimmune signaling, please reach out through email and apply through the NUIN graduate program.

  • Postdoctoral Fellows

    We are looking for postdocs that are motivated by curiosity and interested in finding creative ways to explore the uncharted territory of how social factors and immune signaling impact neural circuits driving behavior, please reach out by email.