Matthew T. Colonnese, PhD
Principal Investigator | PhD Yale University
Dr. Colonnese established the Laboratory for Systems Neural Development at the George Washington University Medical School in Washington, D.C. in 2011. The group studies early brain activity using a multi-disciplinary approach including in vivo electrophysiology and network analysis of brain activity in the neonatal rodent. Dr. Colonnese' expertise includes in vivo electrophysiology and fMRI in developing rodents, analysis of EEG in preterm infants, and anatomical assays of synapse development and connectivity in sensory systems. Dr. Colonnese is an active scientist and lecturer and continues to seek close relationships with clinicians to ensure the relevance of the laboratory's work to human health and development.
Rodrigo Herrera Molina, PhD
PhD University of Chile
Dr. Herrera Molina is a visiting scientist and Lab Director at the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology in Magdeburg, Germany and the Universidad Bernardo O'Higgins in Santiago, Chile. He is a biochemist with a PhD in Biomedicine and is developing new technologies for studying the cellular and circuit mechanisms essential for plasticity, learning, memory and memory recall.
Marnie Phillips, PhD
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Phillips is a developmental neurobiologist interested in the extent to which external factors, like experience, can influence synaptic development of the brain. Her expertise includes ion channel electrophysiology, molecular cloning, synaptic analysis, viral mediated gene transfer, biochemistry, neuroanatomy and science writing. Dr. Phillips' work is helping to understand the degree to which early sensory input shapes the neonatal brain. When not in lab, you can find her on a backcountry trail or climbing wall.
Ruben Tikidzhi-Khamburyan, PhD
MS Physics Southern Federal University
PhD Computer Science/Neuroscience
Kogan Research Institute for Neurocybernetics, Russia,
Dr Tikidzhi-Khamburyan is a computational and theoretical neuroscientist interested in information processing in neural networks. He is creating detailed biophysical models of network development to understand the neuronal mechanisms of sensory perception and how early neuronal assemblies are formed.
Le Nguyen
Undergraduate researcher, George Washington University
Priscilla Pang
Undergraduate researcher, George Washington University
Former Lab Members
Program Analyst
Division of Extramural Research
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), Bethesda MD
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Myron Houngbedji
Premed/Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
NIH/NIDDK student research fellow
Kelsey Kuebler
Premed, George Washington University
Chongxi Lai, PhD
PhD, Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Pouria Riyahi, PhD
PhD George Washington University
Clinical Data Scientist and Manager
Sinaria, Inc., Washington D.C.
Jing Shen, MSEE
Engineer
MathWorks, Natick MA
Hiro Watari, PhD
