WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Key Persons


Aaron Bonner-Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University
Aaron Bonner-Jackson is currently on internship. He will defend his dissertation in Fall 2008. He is a 4th year graduate student in the Clinical Psychology program. He works with Dr. Deanna Barch on studies of episodic memory and strategy use in schizophrenia using functional neuroimaging methods. Aaron graduated from Oberlin College in 2001, then worked as a research assistant in the Clinical Brain Disorders Branch at NIMH before coming to Washington University in 2003.

Adam Culbreth

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student of Deanna Barch, Now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Univ of

Aditi Malay

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Adrianne Casagrand

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Alan Anticevic

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now an Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine
Alan Anticevic - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now an Associate Research Scientist in Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine Aaron Bonner-Jackson - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University Karla Becerril - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now a Medical Science Liaison, Neurodegenerative Diseases, EMD Serono, Inc. Shefali Brahmbhatt - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now at UCSF Jennifer Burbridge - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch Cat Camacho, Graduate Student Alan Ceaser - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University Kimberly Chiew - Graduate Student, Todd Braver, now at University of Denver Yu Sun Chung - Graduate Student of Deanna Barch, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Northwestern University Shelly Cooper - Graduate Student, Todd Braver Adam Culbreth - Graduate Student of Deanna Barch, now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Univ of MD Leticia Czepielewski - Visiting Graduate Student 2015-2016. Now, a Professor at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Greg Burgess - Graduate Student, Todd Braver, now a Research Scientist at WUSM Zainab Delawalla - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Emory University Erin Connor Dowd - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now at Medical School at Washington University Jenny Crawford - Graduate Student Michael Freund - Graduate Student Elizabeth Hawkey - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch. Now at U of California, San Francisco - Clinical Psychology Fellow Katherine Lopez - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch. Now at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Neuropsychology Fellow Noam Keren - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch - now a Research Technician, The Human Neurodiversity Laboratory Dov Lerman-Sinkoff - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch MSTP student, now at WUSM Hannah Sypher Locke - Graduate Student, Todd Braver, now a Researcher Government Accountability Office (GAO), Washington, DC Katherine Luking - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, and Postdoctoral Researcher at SUNY, now at WUSM Meredith Dodge-Melinder - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now at St. Mary's Hospital Beth Keys - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch now an Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine Jennifer Mathews - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch now a Post-doctoral researcher at Washington Univeristy School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry Tara McAuley - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, The Hospital for Sick Children David Pagliaccio - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now a Postdoctoral Researcher, NIH Carrie Racine - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology at University of California, San Francisco Brent Rappaport - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch. Now at UCLA Jeremy Reynolds - Graduate Student, Todd Braver, now Faculty at University of Denver Nicole Seider - Rotation Graduate Student, Barch, Grad student, at WUSM Julia Sheffield - Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, now a post-doc at Vanderbilt University Catherine Tang - Graduate Student with Todd Braver Andrew Westbrook - now a Post-doc at Brown University Tal Yarkoni - Graduate Student, Todd Braver, now a postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder Debbie Yee - Graduate Student, Todd Braver, now at Brown University Ying Yiang - former Rotation Student, Deanna Barch, Graduate Student, now at WUSM in Neuroscience

Alan Ceaser

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University

Alex Puricelli

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician I ( 2018 ), Now a Research Coordinator at WUSM ( Psychiatry )

Alexander Kizhner

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member
  • Research Technician II ( 2017 - 2020 ) - Now at University of Miami School of Medicine

Allison Tay

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician I

Anais Beauvais

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Andy Jones

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Anna Viscovich

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
My name is Anna Viscovich, and I am a senior majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience and minoring in Global Health and Environment. My research interests include mindfulness, psychopathology, and memory. I hope to attend PA school in the future and work within the neurosurgery field. In my free time, I enjoy playing soccer, reading, and traveling.

Asad Beck

Job Titles:
  • Summer Research Student

Audra Stump

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
My name is Audra, and I am a sophomore majoring in computer science and minoring in bioinformatics and chemistry. I am interested in data graphics and visualization, particularly regarding the life sciences, and I hope to pursue a PhD in that domain. In my free time, I enjoy playing the fiddle, running, and experimenting with new recipes.

Becca Feldman

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
  • Graduate Student
Becca is a research assistant working on the Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control Project. She graduated from the University of Georgia in 2019 with degrees in Psychology and Cognitive Science. She is interested in the relationship between emotion and cognitive control in both healthy and clinical populations.

Ben Wang

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician I

Benjamin Acland

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member
  • Research Technician

Beth Keys

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch Now an Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Psychology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Bethany Edwards

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Brent Rappaport

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch. Now at UCLA

Bri Williams

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
Bri Williams is an undergraduate student pursuing a major in Psychological & Brain Sciences and minors in Chinese and Environmental Studies. After graduating from WashU in the Spring of 2024, Bri plans on pursuing a master's degree in clinical psychology. She enjoys listening to music, writing, and spending time in nature.

Bruna Martins

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Cameron Tate

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Summer 2018

Carol Cox

Job Titles:
  • Lab Manager
  • Research Coordinator
  • Research Program Coordinator & Lab Manager
Carol is the CCP Lab Manager and the Research Program Coordinator for Drs. Barch & Braver.

Carol McKenna

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator

Carolina Pedraza

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
Carolina Pedraza is an Argentine Cognitive Neuroscience major whose research interests include mindfulness and sensory perception across different psychopathologies. She became interested in the field through the late Dr. Oliver Sacks' published works and hopes to attend medical school in the future. Carolina is passionate about cooking, music, and languages.

Carolina Ramirez

Job Titles:
  • Programmer, Now at University of California, San Francisco.

Carrie Racine

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery and Radiation Oncology at University of California, San Francisco

Cat Camacho

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Catherine Tang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student With Todd Braver

Chris Gu

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
My name is Yueping(Chris) Gu, and I am currently a junior majoring cognitive neuroscience and computer science. I am interested in the underlying processes/mechanisms of human cognition and emotion and is fascinated by interdisciplinary topics of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, etc. In my free time I love traveling, doing sports, and watching criminal investigation documentaries.

Christine Hoyer

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Danielle Kelly

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member
  • Research Technician - Former Research Assistant, Now at WUSM, Psychiatry

David Pagliaccio

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now a Postdoctoral Researcher, NIH

Deanna Wu

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
Deanna Wu is a student majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience. After graduation, she plans on attending medical school. Her research interests include mindfulness, emotion regulation, and cognitive control. In her free time, Deanna enjoys baking, basketball, and playing instruments.

Debbie Yee

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Todd Braver, Now at Brown University

Devin Berson

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
My name is Devin and I am a Junior majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience and Marketing. I am interested in understanding the neurological bases of behavior and exploring the intersection of my two areas of study. In my free time I do music production, play soccer, run, and spend time with friends and family.

Dionne Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2008 - 2011

Elisa Di Rosa

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology
  • Research Fellow

Elizabeth Hawkey

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch. Now at U of California, San Francisco - Clinical Psychology Fellow

Emily Thomason

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Coordinator
  • Clinical Coordinator for Dr. Deanna
Emily is a Clinical Coordinator for Dr. Deanna Barch. She is responsible for the successful functioning of schizophrenia clinical trials, and assists with the Conte Center and CNTRACS studies. In addition, she coordinates the First Contact Program, a program for young people at risk for major psychiatric disorders. She has worked at Washington University since 2000, performing clinical interviews, neuropsychological testing, and coordination of many schizophrenia research studies. Emily received her Bachelor's degree in Psychology in 1995, and her Master's degree in Counseling from the University of Missouri-St. Louis in 1999. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor for the state of Missouri as well as a National Certified Counselor.

Eric Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher With Deanna Barch, Now a Program Officer at National Institute of Mental Health ( NIMH )

Erin Connor Dowd

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now at Medical School at Washington University

Erin Moran

Job Titles:
  • Senior Scientist
  • Staff Scientist
Dr. Moran is a staff scientist working with Deanna Barch in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University.

Greg Burgess

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Todd Braver, Now a Research Scientist at WUSM

Hailey Madison Rich

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Volunteer Research Assistant

Hannah Sypher Locke

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Todd Braver, Now a Researcher Government Accountability Office ( GAO ), Washington, DC

Inglis Towe

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician, Now at WUSM Psychiatry

Jacob Pine

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Jacob Pine is a clinical doctoral student working with Dr. Deanna Barch. After receiving his B.A. from the College of Wooster in 2015, Jacob spent the subsequent four years studying mediators and moderators of psychosis treatment response with Dr. Nicholas Breitborde at the Early Psychosis Intervention Center (EPICENTER). He is interested in using cognitive process models to study individual differences in learning, motivation, and cognitive control among those with psychotic disorders.

Jeff Lin

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jeff is a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. Todd Braver. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Michigan State University. His research broadly aims to elucidate the effects of mindfulness and other contemplative practices on cognitive control and emotion regulat ion. As a member of the WUSTL Aging and Development program, he hopes to leverage the tools of cognitive neuroscience and psychophysiology to extend his work on mindfulness toward the study of healthy aging. Jeff's long-term aspira tion is to develop an interdisciplinary research program that intersects the arts and sciences, drawing ins ights from psychology, neuroscience, religion, and philosophy to advance understanding and treatment of human suffering.

Jennifer Burbridge

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna

Jennifer Mathews

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch Now a Post - Doctoral Researcher at Washington Univeristy School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

Jennifer Villa

Job Titles:
  • Summer Research Student

Jenny Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician I ( 2019 )

Jeremy Reynolds

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Todd Braver, Now Faculty at University of Denver

Jessica Weiss

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Jo Etzel

Job Titles:
  • Research Analyst

Joe Hilgard

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

John Hanrahan

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
My name is John and I'm a junior majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience and minoring in Marketing. I'm interested in the crossover between neuroscience and sports and hope to pursue that link further down the road. In my free time, I enjoy playing soccer, hiking, and spending time with friends.

Jonathan Tsao

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
My name is Jonathan Tsao, and I am an undergraduate student majoring in Psychological & Brain Sciences: Cognitive Neuroscience. I am currently working with Cat Camacho on a project analyzing neurodevelopmental data of toddlers to track how emotions form in the brain. In my spare time, I like to do taekwondo, play violin, hang out with friends, and (when I am at home in Boston) pet my cats. In the future, I hope to go to dental school.

Joshua Bridges

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Joshua Brown

Joshua Brown - Former Post-Doctoral Researcher with Todd Braver, now at Indiana University Candice Coker-Morey - Former Post-Doctoral Fellow with Todd Braver, now at Cardiff Michael W. Cole - Former Postdoctoral Fellow with Todd Braver, now at Rutgers University, NJ Nicola De Pisapia - Former Post-Doctoral Researcher with Todd Braver, now Research Scientist University of Trento, Italy Elisa Di Rosa - Former Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Todd Braver, now an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Padova. Christina Fales - Former Post-Doctoral Fellow, now at St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute. Jeremy Gray - Former Research Scientist with Todd Braver (now at MSU) Koji Jimura - Former Post-doctoral Fellow with Todd Braver, now Post-doc at University of Texas, Austin Brenda Kirchhoff - Former postdoctoral fellow with Deanna Barch, now Asst. Professor at St. Louis University Marie Krug - Former Staff Scientist with Todd Braver, now an Assistant Project Scientist at UC Davis MIND Institute. Bidhan Lamichhane - Former Postdoctoral Research Associate with Todd Braver Pamela LaMontagne - Former Postdoctoral Researcher with Todd Braver, now at WUSM Katherine Luking - Former Staff Scientist Eric Murphy - Ph.D., Postdoctoral Researcher with Deanna Barch, now a program officer at National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Grega Repovs - Former Post-Doctoral Researcher with Deanna Barch, now at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Hannes Ruge - Former Post-Doctoral Researcher with Todd Braver, now Research Scientist and Lecturer at Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Psychologie Alexandre Schaefer - Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar with Todd Braver, currently at University of Leeds, UK Jordan Taylor - Former Post-Doctoral Researcher with Todd Braver, now at the University of California, Berkeley

Joshua Prince

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician II - Former Research Assistant ( 2016 ), Now at WUSM ( Psychiatry )

Julia Ermel

Job Titles:
  • Research Project Coordinate
Julia is a research technician in Dr. Deanna Barch's lab. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with a B.A. in Cognitive Neuroscience. She is interested in studying psychosis and plans to attend graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Julia Sheffield

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now a Post - Doc at Vanderbilt University

Karla Becerril

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now a Medical Science Liaison, Neurodegenerative Diseases, EMD Serono, Inc

Katherine Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch. Now at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine - Neuropsychology Fellow

Katherine Luking

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, and Postdoctoral Researcher at SUNY, Now at WUSM

Katie Lee

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Katie Pereira

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician II, Now Graduate Student U of WI

Kevin Oksanen

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician II, Now at Children 's Hospital

Kristen Haut

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Laura Bustamante

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Laura Bustamante is a postdoctoral fellow working with Dr. Deanna Barch. She completed her Ph.D. at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where she studied individual differences in motivation to exert cognitive and physical effort. Her research focuses on computational approaches to understand psychiatric symptoms, such as cognitive control difficulties and apathy. She is interested in the cognitive processes underlying successfully achieving goals, as well as what prevents people from achieving their goals. Laura plans to bring disability justice in conversation with computational psychiatry. She aims to move towards strengths-based research on neurodivergent populations, includes individuals with psychiatric disabilities in the research process, and focuses on removing barriers to access for disabled people in line with the social model of disability.

Laura Cobb

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
  • Research Technician I
Laura graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A in psychology in 2017. She works in Dr. Deanna Barch's lab. She had a stroke with aphasia. In addition to her interest in stroke recovery, Laura has a longtime interest in children with autism.

Laura Talpey

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Lauren Ness

Job Titles:
  • Summer Research Intern

Leah Fruchtman

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student

Leah Newcomer

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician II

Lisa Dickmann

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Liz Chrastil

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Liz Harrison

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Loren Lacruz

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
Loren Lacruz is an undergraduate student from New York pursuing a double major in Political Science and Psychological & Brain Sciences. Loren has internship experience in BigLaw and the public sector and plans on pursuing a J.D. after graduating from WashU. During her free time, she produces content for her own podcast show, True Shh, where she interviews entrepreneurs, artists, creatives, students, innovators, and everyone in between (@trueshhpodcast). Loren will also be a part of an ASD practicum her junior year, where she will work closely with families with children on the spectrum.

Madelyn Shapiro

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Marco Pipoly

Job Titles:
  • Summer Undergraduate Researcher, 2017

Margaret Redic

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Margaret is a clinical graduate student working with Dr. Deanna Barch. She received a B.S. in Child Development and a B.A. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, she researched family-level depression interventions with Dr. Bruce Compas. After graduating, Margaret spent two years working in Dr. Margaret Sheridan's lab at UNC-Chapel Hill, investigating how early life experiences influence adolescent psychopathology and neural development. Margaret is interested in studying how cognitive processes and early life adversity influence the development of affective psychopathology in adolescence.

Maria Chushak

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Maria Gehred

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Maria Hossain

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Marie Krug

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Project Scientist

Mark Curtis

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mark is a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr. Deanna Barch. He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. His dissertation work focused on auditory attention in early psychosis. His current research utilizes multimodal imaging to understand the influences of puberty on brain development and risk for developing psychopathology. His research goal is to improve the translation between basic and clinical research, ultimately leading to improved outcomes for individuals.

Marne White

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician
  • Research Technician in Dr. Todd Braver
Marne is a research technician in Dr. Todd Braver's lab. She graduated with a B.A. in 2021 from Washington University in St. Louis with a major in Psychological and Brain Sciences and a minor in Mathematics. Marne plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.

Matthew Singh

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Matthew is a post-doctoral research fellow working with Todd Braver & ShiNung Ching. He received an honors' concentration in Psychology from the University of Tennessee and minors in Neuroscience and Mathematics. Prior to graduate school he spent one year at Vanderbilt University developing mathematical models of dendritic function, reward learning, and psychopathology with David Zald. Matthew's research focuses upon mathematical neuroscience including methods/theory and basic questions in cognitive neuroscience. He works on developing new methods in applied mathematics, modeling, and functional data analysis (fMRI, EEG, optical spectroscopy, & primate electrophysiology), in addition to studying basic science questions of higher cognition particularly regarding working memory and cognitive control.

Maya Quale

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician
  • Research Technician I
  • Research Technician in Dr. Todd Braver
Maya is a research technician in Dr. Todd Braver's lab working on the Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control project. She graduated from University of Dayton in 2022 with a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience.

Melanie Bussan

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Meredith Dodge-Melinder

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now at St. Mary 's Hospital

Michael Freund

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Mitchell Jeffers

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Monet Davis

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician
  • Research Technician I
  • Summer Research Intern
Monet is a research technician I in Dr. Todd Braver's lab. She graduated in 2020 from the University of Missouri- St. Louis with her B.S in Psychology, a minor is Biology and a certificate in Neuroscience.

Nada Dalloul

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Nada is a clinical graduate student working with Dr. Deanna Barch. She received a B.S. in Biological Psychology and a B.S. in Applied Statistics from the University of California, Davis. During her undergraduate career, she researched attention and working memory with Dr. Steve Luck. After graduating, she worked at the UC Davis Medical Investigation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders (MIND) Institute under Dr. Marjorie Solomon, investigating cognitive control in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Nada is interested in studying functioning, neurocognition, and symptoms in individuals with psychotic disorders.

Naomi Yodkovik

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Nathan Schoen

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Nicholas Bloom

Job Titles:
  • Programmer
Nick earned a B.S. in psychology at Washington University in St. Louis in 2010 and has worked in the Psychiatry/Psychology departments since that time, primarily assisting with task design and implementation with software such as E-Prime. Nick has worked on various projects in other capacities as well and has spent time designing and collecting data for eye tracking, EEG, and fMRI projects. He is currently a programmer in the CCP Lab.

Nicole Karcher

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Nicole is a post-doctoral scholar with the NIMH Training in Clinical Sciences fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine under the mentorship of Deanna Barch, Ph.D. Her research interests largely focus on conducting translational research in order to better understand the neural and genetic substrates underlying risk for and development of psychotic disorders.

Nicole Seider

Job Titles:
  • Rotation Graduate Student, Barch, Grad Student, at WUSM

Noah Eby

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant, Now WUSM Student

Noam Keren

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch - Now a Research Technician, the Human Neurodiversity Laboratory

Nourhan Elsayed

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student

Rachel Brough

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member
  • Research Technician II, Now at University of Denver

Rachel Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Coordinator

Resh Gupta

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate
  • Postdoctoral Research Associate
Resh Gupta is a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr. Todd Braver and the Mindfulness Science & Practice Transdisciplinary Cluster. She received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University where she examined the effect of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on event-related potential markers of attentional bias in anxious populations. Resh's current research utilizes EEG, behavioral, and self-report methods to understand the effects of mindfulness on attentional and cognitive control in anxious populations.

Rita Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Rita is a graduate student working with Dr. Deanna Barch. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Cognitive Science from Northwestern University. After graduating, she worked at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior on a large study broadly investigating environmental influences on child development. She is interested in the influence of early life adversity-particularly as it relates to unpredictable learning environments-on the maturation of brain structures and pathways related to motivation and cognitive control.

Robert Jirsaraie

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Robert is a graduate student who is working with Deanna Barch Aris Sotiras through the Division of Computational & Data Sciences. His research focuses on mapping the neurodevelopmental trajectories of psychopathology to better understand biomarkers and predict risk.

Sahee Abdelmomin

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sam Wang

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
Sam is an undergraduate student majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience with a minor in Global Health and Environment. He is currently working with Jeff Lin on the effects of mindfulness on cognitive control and emotion regulation. In his free time, he enjoys playing tennis, listening to EDM music, and watching The Great British Bake Off. He hopes to become a medical doctor.

Saptarshi Sinha

Job Titles:
  • Research Programmer Analyst

Sarah Adams

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member
  • Research Technician II, Now at WUSM ADRC

Sarah Lageman

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Sarah Stier

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
My name is Sarah Stier, and I am a sophomore in the School of Arts and Sciences. I am planning on majoring in biology on the neuroscience track with a minor in psychology and healthcare management. My research interests include psychopathology, control over decisions and emotions, memory, and sleep. I love working with children and hope to become a doctor working within a pediatric field. In my free time I enjoy exercising and spending time outside.

Shefali Brahmbhatt

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now at UCSF

Sishir Yarlagadda

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Sofia Mora

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Stefanie Beck

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Stephanie Gombas

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician
Stephanie is a research technician under Dr. Deanna Barch, assisting in data collection on her ECDM and CNTRACS studies. She graduated with a B.S. in Psychological Science and a minor in Law from Purdue University in 2021. While at Purdue, she worked as an undergraduate research assistant for Dr. Dan Foti in his PACER lab. Her interests lie in cognitive functioning and perception in psychotic disorders and the potential for cognitive behavioral therapy as a treatment, as well as the neuropsychological effects and broader cultural perceptions of methamphetamine use. She plans on pursuing a Ph.D. within the next few years.

Susan Bongiolatti

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Swathi Karthik

Job Titles:
  • Research Technician

Sydney Cartwright

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Sydney Tran

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
  • Undergraduate Student
Sydney Tran is a sophomore undergraduate student majoring in psychology and communication design. She is interested in becoming a clinical psychologist as well as becoming a health communication designer and hopes to find an intersection between her interests. In her free time she enjoys crocheting, foraging, and hanging out with her dog Thor.

Talia Reich

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Tara McAuley

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now a Post - Doctoral Research Fellow, the Hospital for Sick Children

Thomas Dudey

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student
Thomas is a graduate student working with Dr. Todd Braver. He received a B.A. in Psychology at Princeton where he studied attentional mechanisms in change detection. He also received an M.A. at UChicago where he worked with Professor Howard Nusbaum on generalized auditory perceptual learning. He is using multilevel models to study between-subject and within-subject variability in cognitive control for both healthy and vulnerable populations.

Timothy Heaven

Job Titles:
  • RESEARCH STAFF Member

Todd S. Braver

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Psychological and Brain
  • RESEARCH STAFF
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Radiology and Neuroscience, Washington University Principal Investigator, Co-Director of the Cognitive Control and Psychopathology Laboratory at Washington University

Usma Rizvi

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Student

Ying Yiang

Job Titles:
  • Rotation Student, Deanna Barch, Graduate Student, Now at WUSM in Neuroscience

Zainab Delawalla

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Deanna Barch, Now an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Emory University