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Current Students
Entering fall 2018
Jaren Reeves-Darby
Research mentor:
Donna M. Platt, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Millsaps College, Neuroscience & Cognitive Studies
Entering fall 2019
Loc Pham
Research mentor:
Kevin Freeman, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, University of Alabama – Birmingham, Neuroscience
Entering fall 2020
William Doyle
Research mentor:
Sally Huskinson, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BA, University of Mississippi, Biochemistry
Tanya Pareek
Research mentor:
Barbara Gisabella, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Millsaps College, Biology; MS, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Biomedical Sciences
Entering fall 2021
Daniel Borgatti
Research mentor:
James Rowlett, PhD, and Lais Berro, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BA, Framingham State University, Psychology
Jena' Mazique
Research mentor:
Hong Zhu, PhD, Department of Otolaryngology
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, William Carey University, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology
Jon Person
Research mentor:
Eric Vallender, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BA, University of Mississippi, Biological Science, Psychology; MS, Mississippi College, Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Entering fall 2022
Jobin Babu
Research mentor:
Harry Pantazopoulos, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, University of Houston,
Kinesiology-Exercise Science
; MS, Mississippi College, Biology
Jacob Haskell
Research mentor:
Lee Bidwell, PhD, Department of Neurology
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Kent State University, Psychology
Entering fall 2023
Annie Hollis
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Mississippi University for Women, Psychology
A'Kaychia Lowery
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Delta State University, Biology; MS, Delta State University, Natural Science
Karen Saffold
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Mississippi University for Women, Biological Sciences
Youness Touissi
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
MD, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Medicine
Entering fall 2024
Goodness Adegbola
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Babcock University, Anatomy; MS, Anglia Ruskin University, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience
Sarah Rivero
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, Regent University, Psychology
Aditi Rudrashetty
Undergraduate/graduate degree:
BS, University of South Carolina, Neuroscience