Lab Members

Dinesh Pal, Ph.D.  (dineshp@med.umich.edu)

Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesiology 

Molecular & Integrative Physiology

Neuroscience Graduate Program

Michigan Neuroscience Institute, Affiliate

Michigan Psychedelic Center

Center for Consciousness Science

Tiecheng Liu, M.D.

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Department of Anesthesiology

tiecliu@med.umich.edu 

Sara Smith, B.S., L.V.T.

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Department of Anesthesiology

sarazak@med.umich.edu 

Emma Huels, B.S. (etrammel@med.umich.edu )

Graduate Student - Neuroscience Graduate Program

Department of Anesthesiology

Center for Consciousness Science

Nick Kolbman, B.S. (nkolbman@med.umich.edu)

Graduate Student - Department of Pharmacology

Department of Anesthesiology

Center for Consciousness Science

Trent Groenhout, B.A.

Research Associate

Department of Anesthesiology

trgroenh@med.umich.edu 

Amanda Nelson, B.S., M.A.

Research Assistant

Department of Anesthesiology

agnels@med.umich.edu

Andres Villegas Calderon, B.S.

NIH-UM Postbaccalaureate Fellow

Department of Anesthesiology

andresvc@med.umich.edu

Sumegha Ponnaluri

Undergraduate Research Assistant

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Neuroscience

sumeghap@umich.edu

ALUMNI

Stella Wisidagamage, M.S. (2012-2016)

Research Lab Specialist Intermediate

Department of Anesthesiology

Donald Fedrigon, B.S. (2013-2015)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Neuroscience

Farah Alam, B.S. (2013-2016)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience 

Lana Sharba, B.S. (2015-2018)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Neuroscience (Honors)

Ahad Bootwala, B.S. (2016-2018)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Movement Science

Jon Dean, M.S., Ph.D. (2016-2020)

Graduate Student

Department of Anesthesiology

Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Anna Fryzel, M.S. (2017-2020)

Research Laboratory Specialist Intermediate

Department of Anesthesiology

Michael Brito, Ph.D. (2017-2021)

Graduate Student - Neuroscience Graduate Program

Department of Anesthesiology

Center for Consciousness Science

Nick Glynos, Ph.D. (2018-2023)

Graduate Student - Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Department of Anesthesiology

Haya Beydoun (2019-2020)

Undergraudate Research Assistant

LSA student in Biology, Health, and Society, and French

Jiayu Liu (2019-2020)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Program in Biology/Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience (Biochemistry Major)

Daiyao Yi (2019)

Volunteer Master's Student

Biomedical Engineering

Anjum Parkar, Ph.D. (2019-2021)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Anesthesiology

Chloe Rybicki-Kler, B.S. (2019-2020) 

Research Assistant 

Biochemistry & English Literature and Language 

Peter Walczyk (2020)

BME 590 student

Biomedical Engineering

Zuzanna Fracz, B.S. (2020-2023)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Neuroscience

Chris Fields, B.S. (2020-2023)

Research Associate

Department of Anesthesiology

Russell Nichols, D.V.M. (2021-2022)

Research Fellow

Department of Anesthesiology

Unit for Laboratory Animal Medicine

Haoxuan Lucy Wang, B.S. (2021-2023)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Neuroscience

Harini Byraju, B.S. (2021-2023)

Undergraduate Research Assistant

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Neuroscience

Brian Silverstein, Ph.D. (2021-2024)

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Department of Anesthesiology

Center for Consciousness Science

Mary Norat, B.S.

Research Lab Specialist Senior

Department of Anesthesiology

Rachel Summerfield

Undergraduate Research Assistant

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Neuroscience

Sarayu Chaparala

Undergraduate Research Assistant

College of Literature, Science, and the Arts - Neuroscience

Eva Goren

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience

evagoren@umich.edu