Mentors
Sarit Smolikove, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor
Department of Biology
Hanna Stevens , Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor of Psychiatry
Emily Thomas, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Clinical Associate Professor, Psychology
Yuriy Usachev, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Professor of Anesthesia
John Paul Long Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Elizabeth Walker, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Associate Professor College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Scholar
Cong Wang, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Assistant Faculty Research Engineer, IIHR—Hydroscience and Engineering
Edward Wasserman, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor
Dewey B. Stuit Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Mary Weber, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Stead Family Scholar
Kristan Worthington , Ph.D.
Title/Position
Associate Professor, Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ling Yang, MD, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Anatomy and Cell Biology
Prospective Mentors
Ted Abel, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Director, Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience
Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Saba Rasheed Ali, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Research Team LSAMP
Professor of Counseling Psychology
Associate Dean for Research, College of Education
Kelly Baker, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health
Bengi Baran, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Alexander Bassuk, M.D., Ph.D.
Title/Position
Chair, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
Physician-in-Chief, Stead Family Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics - General Neurology
Professor of Neurology
Melissa Bates
Title/Position
Associate Professor
Health and Human Physiology
Terry Braun, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Hansjoerg E.J.W. Kolder MD Associate Professor in Best Disease Research
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Researcher, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Director of Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics
Researcher, Institute for Vision Research
Gordon Buchanan, MD, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Associate Professor of Neurology
Beth L. Tross Epilepsy Professor
Martha Carvour, MD, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Thomas Casavant, Ph.D.
Title/Position
Roy J. Carver, Jr. Chair in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Director of Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology