Lab Members

Ege Kavalali, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator
Hometown: Istanbul, Turkey

ege.kavalali@vanderbilt.edu

Research Faculty

Ok-Ho Shin, Ph.D.

Research Instructor
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea

• : ok-ho.shin@vanderbilt.edu

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Staff

Pingping Li

Research Assistant
Liaoning Province, China

• : pingping.li@vanderbilt.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Bariscan Cimen, M.D., Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Hometown: Ankara, Turkey

• : bariscan.cimen@vanderbilt.edu

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Clara McCarthy, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Hometown: La Plata, Argentina

• : clara.mccarthy@vanderbilt.edu

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Sunday Olatunji, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Hometown: Osu-Ilesa, Nigeria

• : sunday.olatunji@vanderbilt.edu

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Grant Walters, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Hometown: Byron, MN

• : grant.c.walters@vanderbilt.edu

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Graduate Students

Elena Bagatelas

Graduate Student
Hometown: Memphis, TN

• : elena.d.bagatelas@vanderbilt.edu

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Aiden Houcek

Graduate Student
Hometown: Lake Forest, IL

• : aiden.houcek@vanderbilt.edu

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Ihsan Alp Uzay

Visiting Graduate Student
Hometown: Kayseri, Turkey

• : ihsan.a.uzay@vanderbilt.edu

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Kevin Zhang

Graduate Student
Hometown: Olympia, WA

• : kevin.j.zhang@vanderbilt.edu

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Recent Lab Alumni

Natalie Guzikowski, Ph.D.

CURENT POSITION: Postdoctoral Fellow, Michael E. Greenberg Lab, Harvard University

Burak Uzay, M.D., Ph.D.

CURRENT POSITION: Psychiatry Residency Program, Research Track, Mount Sinai

Camille Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

CURRENT POSITION: Psychiatry Residency Program, Research Track. Stanford University