{"id":14,"date":"2016-07-21T13:12:14","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T17:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:02:13","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/people\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BZ\"<\/p>\n

Basilis Zikopoulos, MS, PhD<\/h4>\n

Associate Professor<\/p>\n

Principal Investigator<\/p>\n

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\"\"Xuefeng Liu, PhD<\/h4>\n

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Research Scientist<\/p>\n

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Tara McHugh, MS<\/h4>\n

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Research Fellow<\/p>\n

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Melinda Stackpole, MS<\/h4>\n

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Research Fellow<\/p>\n

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Jillianne Son<\/h4>\n

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PhD Candidate<\/p>\n

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Songlin Xie<\/h4>\n

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PhD Candidate<\/p>\n

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Gengchen Wei<\/h4>\n

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PhD Candidate<\/p>\n

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So Wing Lum<\/h4>\n

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BS\/MS Candidate<\/p>\n

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Emilee Jun Carleton<\/h4>\n

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MS Candidate<\/p>\n

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Ezekiel Moroze<\/h4>\n

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Senior Thesis, Neuroscience major<\/p>\n

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Aiyang Jiang<\/h4>\n

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Research Volunteer, Human Physiology major<\/p>\n

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Yi – Hsi Huang<\/h4>\n

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Research Volunteer, Human Physiology major<\/p>\n

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Kidus Efrem<\/h4>\n

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Research Volunteer, Human Physiology major<\/p>\n

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Alumni<\/h2>\n

From Program in Human Physiology, Program in Neuroscience, and Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Health Sciences, Computer Science<\/p>\n

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Iris Trutzer (MD\/PhD student), now Resident at Johns Hopkins<\/em><\/td>\nSangwook Park (Research Volunteer and senior thesis), now Law student at Duke University<\/em><\/td>\nBrandon McCoughlin (BS\/MS student), now at Nikon Bioimaging Labs<\/em><\/td>\nRebecca Johnson (BS\/MS student), now Researcher at Tufts University<\/em><\/td>\nSophie Struble, (MS student), now Lab Scientist I at Leica Microsystems<\/em><\/td>\nJulied Bautista (MS student and Research Fellow), now MD\/PhD student at Boston University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Edward Liu (UROP and Research Volunteer), now MD student at Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine<\/em><\/td>\nJulia Hacker, \u00a0(BS\/MS student), now PhD student at University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/td>\nTingru Lian (UROP and Research Volunteer), now PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University<\/em><\/td>\nShimrani Banik (UROP and Research Volunteer), now MD student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine<\/em><\/td>\nCaroline Dugan (Research Volunteer and senior thesis), now MD student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine<\/em><\/td>\nMahdi Khemakhem (Research Volunteer and senior thesis), now MS student at Boston University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Olivia Swanson, MS\u00a0\u00a0(Research Fellow), now postdoc at University of Pennsylvania<\/em><\/td>\nJoy Ismail, (MS student), now Research Associate at Imperial College London, UK<\/em><\/td>\nKomal Wasif (UROP and Research Volunteer), now dental student at Tufts University<\/em><\/td>\nEugenia Angelopoulos (UROP and Research Volunteer), now PhD student at University of Minnesota<\/em><\/td>\nLily Travis (Research Volunteer), now MD student at University of Arizona<\/em><\/td>\nYandan Wang (MS student), now PhD student at Stanford University<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Utsav Rana (UROP, Research Volunteer), now at UCSF School of Densistry<\/em><\/td>\nMaalavika Ragunathan, MS\u00a0 (Research Fellow), now Project Coordinator at University of Pittsburg<\/em><\/td>\nJustin Tepe, MS (UROP, Research Volunteer), now MD student at NY Medical College<\/em><\/td>\nSu Htwe (Research Intern), now MD student at NY Medical College<\/em><\/td>\nBrooklynn Earls (Research Intern) , now MD student at Baylor College of Medicine<\/em><\/td>\nDimitri Mabarak (Research Volunteer), now MD at Cleveland Clinic<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Adline Juste (Research Volunteer), now Therapist at Penn State College<\/em><\/td>\nRebecca Housh (Research Volunteer) now at Xeris Pharmaceuticals<\/em><\/td>\nJustin Luh (UROP, Research Volunteer), now at Audacity Health<\/em><\/td>\nAustin Liou (Research Intern), now Doctor of Chiropractic, Texas<\/em><\/td>\nSamuel Han (Research Intern), now at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital<\/em><\/td>\nAnna Streifel (Research Intern)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Tate Higashihara (Research Volunteer), now MD in MA<\/em><\/td>\nJulia Rosario (Research Volunteer), now at Dispatch Health<\/em><\/td>\nAworanti Eunice (Research Volunteer), now MD student at Emory University<\/em><\/td>\nUma Khemraj (UROP, Research Volunteer), now at Harvard Medical School<\/em><\/td>\nSofia Konstantinidou (Research Volunteer), now Consultant at Deloitte Greece<\/em><\/td>\nRebecca Salamone (UROP, Research Volunteer), now in industry<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Grace Lei (Intern, Research Volunteer), now Consultant, Health & Benefits at Mercer<\/em><\/td>\nAlexander Li (Research Volunteer), now at Revere Medical<\/em><\/td>\nDouglas Benishek (Research Volunteer), now EMT\/Music Director<\/em><\/td>\nKevin Pruna, MS, now at New England Aquarium<\/em><\/td>\nAntonio Lopez (STaRS, Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nMorgan Bruzzese (Research Volunteer)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Tyler Jensen (Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nKonrad Skubritz (Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nNajila Zaman (UROP, Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nSussan Al-Shanniek (Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nJulie Ngo (UROP, Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nAbraham Ha (Research Volunteer)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Sophia Yuan (Research Volunteer and senior thesis)<\/td>\nIris Chun (UROP and Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nNina Velu (UROP and Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nJustin Kim (Research Volunteer)<\/td>\nMarcia Feinberg, MS\u00a0 (Electron Microscopist)<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Basilis Zikopoulos, MS, PhD Associate Professor Principal Investigator email Xuefeng Liu, PhD   Research Scientist email Tara McHugh, MS   Research Fellow email Melinda Stackpole, MS   Research Fellow email Jillianne Son   PhD Candidate email Songlin Xie   PhD Candidate email Gengchen Wei   PhD Candidate email So Wing Lum   BS\/MS Candidate email […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12250,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/brainlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}