Daphne Bavelier

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0695 (for main lab)
Office: Meliora 403
E-mail: daphne@bcs.rochester.edu

See Curriculum vitae for more information

Rebecca Achtman

POSITION:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow

EDUCATION:
BSc in Math & Neuroscience, McGill University, Canada (1998)
PhD in Neurological Sciences, McGill University, Canada (2003)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-273-5323
Office: Meliora 407
E-mail: rachtman@bcs.rochester.edu

FUTURE GOALS:
I hope to broaden my research to include more cognitive aspects of vision as well as learn ASL

Ashley Anderson

POSITION:
Ph.D candidate (Sept. '06-present)

EDUCATION:
B.S. Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University (2006)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0751
Office: Meliora 408
E-mail: aanderson@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work- brain plasticity, hemispheric differences, vision
Nonwork- soccer, baseball, Star Wars, world religions, travelling

POSITION:
Research Associate

EDUCATION:
B.Sc. (Hons) Psychology, Manchester Polytechnic, UK
M. Sc. Neural Computation, Stirling University, UK
Ph.D. Psychology, University of Southampton, UK

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0759
Office: Meliora 133
E-mail: mdye@bcs.rochester.edu
Webpage: http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/people/mdye/

FUTURE GOALS:
Improve my ASL fluency; extend my studies with deaf native signing children to include children with varying age of onset and degree of hearing loss; design fMRI studies to complement the recent behavioral data collected from deaf children and adults.

Angela Hauser

POSITION:
Laboratory Manager/Staff Interpreter

EDUCATION:
Western Maryland College, May 1999
BA: English(British Literature focus) for deaf education application

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0695
Office: Meliora 404
E-mail: ahauser@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Language acquisition and brain plasticity in the deaf

FUTURE GOALS:
Continue work on current focus and future work on
language acquisition of CODAs (children of deaf adults)

Peter Hauser

POSITION:
Collaborating Researcher
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Assistant Professor of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology

EDUCATION:
B.A. Philosophy and Psychology, Central Connecticut State University M.A.
American Sign Language Linguistics, Gallaudet University
M.A. Psychology, Gallaudet University
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Gallaudet University
Post Doc: University of Rochester Medical Center, Departments of Neurology
and Psychiatry. Neuropsychology fellowship

VITAL STATS:
TTY/FAX: 585-475-4556
E-mail: hauser@mail.rit.edu

INTERESTS:
Neuropsychological assessment of language and memory in Deaf children and
adults and sign language neurolinguistics.

FUTURE GOALS:
Complete a study in sign language neurolinguistics that Daphne, Ted, and
Elissa cannot criticize! Develop memory and language neuropsychological
measures that can be used with Deaf patients.

Elizabeth Hirshorn

POSITION:
Ph.D. Candidate (Sept 05 - Present)

EDUCATION:
B.A. Cognitive Science and Spanish, Wellesley College (2003)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-3075
Office: Meliora 409
E-mail: ehirshorn@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work: I am interested in how early language experience affects brain plasticity and reading ability in the deaf . I am also interested in how deafness may lead to differences in short term memory mechanisms.
Non-Work: Learning languages and keeping up with the ones I know, fiddle, bbq, Philadelphia Eagles, traveling and visiting friends in interesting places.

FUTURE GOALS:
I hope that my research will lead to improved techniques for
attaining high levels of literacy in the deaf.

POSITION:
Ph.D Candidate

EDUCATION:
BS in School of Life Sciences,
University of Science and Technology of China, China (2004)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0695
Office: Meliora 404
E-mail: rli@bcs.rochester.edu

POSITION:
NEI CVS Postdoctoral Research Fellow

EDUCATION:
BS in Biomechanical Engineering, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI (2001)
Ph.D. in Functional Imaging - Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics, Marquette University and Medical College of WI (2007)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-273-4863
Office: Meliora 133G
E-mail: mmaciejewski@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Plasticity, vision, fMRI, cortical brain injury, amblyopia, and the use of fMRI in the clinic.

FUTURE GOALS:
Continue research in vision plasticity, relearn ASL and learn about differences in the deaf population, working for advocacy for non-traditional disabilities, and volunteering to get children interested in science and technology.

My Graduate School Lab Website:
http://www.mcw.edu/cellbio/visionlab/index.html

My Neurotree:
http://neurotree.org/neurotree/tree.php?pid=11018

POSITION:
Research Assistant

EDUCATION:
BA in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Honors, Expected May 2008)
BA in Psychology (Expected May 2008)
University of Rochester

VITAL STATS:
E-mail: dfeder@mail.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Visual attentional differences between musicians and non-musicians, other aspects of music cognition, animal cognition and the evolution of intelligence.

FUTURE GOALS:
Complete an honors thesis in music cognition, find a job as a full-time research assistant for next year and eventually apply to graduate school.

POSITION:
Research Assistant

EDUCATION:
BS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Expected May 2009)
BA in Clincal and Social Psychology (Expected May 2009)
University of Rochester

VITAL STATS:
E-mail: akatz4@mail.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work - The difference between video game players and non-gamers in their visual capabilities, behavioral differences from biological changes (specifically neurotoxicity), and brain trauma rehabilitation.
Non-work - Cooking, making balloon animals, languages and raising tropical fish.

FUTURE GOALS:
Gain as much research experience as possible and go to graduate school. In the long run, I would like to hold a professorship and continue neural plasticity research.

POSITION:
Research Assistant, Website Manager

EDUCATION:
BS in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Honors, expected May 2009)

VITAL STATS:
Office: Meliora 133G
E-mail: msugarma@mail.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Differences in visual attentional and memory skills between video game players and non-gamers, special education and autism, spent last summer working at the New England Center for Children.

FUTURE GOALS:
Continue my current research and complete an honors thesis by the time I graduate, then start looking at graduate schools.

C. Shawn Green
Shawn is now a post-doctoral associate in the Kersten Computational Vision Lab at the University of Minnesota.

Nina Fernandez
Nina is now a graduate student in Speech-Language Pathology at Boston University.

Mithun Mukherjee
Mithun is working as a technology licensing associate at the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He is also a part-time student at the Simon School of Business.

Arnaud Guidon
Arnaud is a Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering program at Duke University. He is working in Allen Song's laboratory at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center on developing acquisition methods for enhancing spatial and temporal resolution of functional MRI.

Shannon Bailey
Shannon is a game programmer at Bethesda Softworks in Rockville, MD.

Matt Hall
Matt is currently a Ph.D candidate at the University of California at San Diego.

Raylene Harris
Raylene is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Gallaudet University.

Jennifer Vannest
Jennifer is now a research assistant professor in the Division of Neurology and Pediatric Brain Imaging Research Program at Cincinatti Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Aparna Sapre
Aparna now works as Software Design Engineer at Neurognostics, Inc., located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is involved in studying various CNS disorders using fMRI techniques.

Aaron J. Newman
Aaron is now an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience and the director of the Neurocognitive Imaging Laboratory at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Julie Cohen
Julie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

Dave McColgin
Dave earned his B.A. in BCS in 2003. He went on to study Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech and now researches and designs tools for information visualization at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He went from 96 days of sunshine to 300 and still gets better skiing.

Mrim Boutla
Mrim is now a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University

France Ginchereau
Working at the Episcopal Center for Children in Washington, DC.

Jutta VanStean

Keith Schneider
Keith works at the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging in Rochester, NY.

Tony Monacelli
In his own words: I am currently working at the U of R Medical Center in Charles Duffy's Visual Orientation Laboratory, examining spatial disorientation in aging and Alzheimer's Disease. This fall I will begin graduate school in the U of R's doctoral program in clinical psychology, working with Dante Cicchetti.

Andrea Tomann

Craig Brozinsky
Craig is currently working toward a PhD in UCDavis's Psychology Program, investigating human memory through brain imaging and patient work.

Jason Proksch

Robert Baldwin

Chloe Hutton
Chloe is a research fellow in the physics group at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience in London. She is working on methods for correcting distortions in functional imaging data, and on measurements of cortical anatomy in structural MRI.

Teresa Mitchell
Teresa is now a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Shriver Center in Waltham, Massachusetts where she is studying the development of visual perception in deaf infants, children, and adults. More info...