Primary Investigator
Professor Michal Zochowski, Ph.D
Principal Investigator, Department of Physics and BioPhysics
Graduate Students
- Jack Lin (Neuroscience)
- Yihao Yang (Physics)
- Bolaji Eniwaye
James Roach
Graduate Student
Troy Lau
Graduate Student, Department of Physics
Troy Lau joined the lab in the spring of 2007 as a graduate student in physics. His work primarily focuses on modeling decision making in the basal ganglia. Specifically he computationally studies the activity of interneurons in the striatum as they correlate to experiment. He also collaborates with Professor Joshua Berke in the Department of Psychology directing his computational methods viain vivo experimentation.
In his free time Troy loves to play soccer, football, frisbee, and fish. He is an avid fan of the Dallas Cowboys and Michigan Wolverines. he also loves to cook and eat all kinds of food.
Troy’s work is supported by the NIH Molecular Biophysics Training Grant.
Tony Smith
Department of Applied Physics
Tony has been with the lab group since May of 2008. He is working on ways to characterize and measure epileptiform activity propagation across network cluster interfaces in integrate-and-fire small world network neuronal models. Currently, his work is focused on investigating the effects of distance dependent synaptic delays on the activity and synchronization of these same models.
Liz Shtrahman
Graduate Student, Department of Applied Physics
Liz Shtrahman is a PhD student in the Applied Physics Program, and she joined the lab in 2008. Her research focuses on studying spatial and temporal patterns of neuronal electrical activity, which underlie brain function. She utilizes both electrophysiological and novel optical techniques to study these patterns of network activity in cultures of dissociated rat hippocampal neurons. This includes performing multi-electrode recordings with MEAs in addition to imaging with both calcium sensitive and voltage sensitive dyes.
Dan Maruyama
Graduate Student
Former Members
- Dr. Rhonda Dzakpasu Ph.D (Post Doc)
- Alexandra Pidde (visiting scholar)
Graduate students:
- Soyoun Kim Physics; graduated Fall 2005
- Ben Singer M.D./Ph.D., Neuroscience Program; graduated Spring 2007
- Jack Waddell Physics; graduated Spring 2007
- Sarah Feldt Physics; graduated Spring 2009
- Jane Wang Applied Physics; graduated Summer 2010
- Troy Lau Physics, graduated Fall 2010
- Christian Fink Physics, graduated Fall 2012
- Elizabeth Shtrahman Applied Physics, Fall 2014
- Dan Maruyama Physics, Summer 2015
- Sima Mofakham Biophysics, Fall 2015
- Scott Rich Mathematics, Spring 2018
- James Roach Neuroscience Program, Fall 2018
- Jiaxing Wu Applied Physics, Summer 2019
- Quinton Skilling Biophysics Program, Spring 2020
- Maral Budak Biophysics Program, Spring 2020
Undergraduate students:
- Andrew Bogaard (physics)
- Beth Percha (physics)
- Eva Olariu (Neuroscience)
- Scott Knudstrup (math)
- Chenguang Li (REU)
- Paulina Czarnecki (math)
- Nicholas Weaver (physics)
- Michael Satchell (physics)
- Alexis Simmons (REU, Baylor University)
- Hady Saad (Neuroscience)
