CURRENT ANTG TRAINEES
Current Predoctoral Fellow Trainees:
Yusuf Ali (yusufali@uw.edu), Speech & Hearing Sciences (Max Lab)
Yusuf Ali is a 5th year PhD student in the Speech and Hearing Sciences department, in the Laboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control, supervised by Ludo Max. The broad scope of his research involves speech motor control in both typical speakers as well as individuals who stutter. His recent research is more focused on the potential role that auditory deficits may play in stuttering, specifically investigating the way that auditory feedback is used for speech in people who stutter.
Jeffrey Munevar, Speech & Hearing Sciences (Spain Lab)
Princess Tarabishi, Grad Program in Neuroscience (Ahmed Lab)
Current Postdoctoral Fellow Trainees:
Selina Baeza-Loya
Farhin Ahmed
Noelle Abbott
ANTG Alumni
Kathryn Powers, Biological Structure (Bermingham-McDonogh Lab)
Malayka Motterella, Psychology (Pratt Lab)
Amanda Ciani, Speech and Hearing Sciences (Stone Lab)
Liesbeth Gijbels, Speech and Hearing Sciences (Lee Lab)
Talat Jabeen, Speech and Hearing Sciences (Lau & Rubenstein Labs)
Jordan Drew (jadrew43@uw.edu), Electrical & Computer Engineering (Lee Lab)
Jordan Drew is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Drew is supervised by Dr. Adrian KC Lee, working to understand the cortical networks involved in executing auditory attention. Learn more about Jordan and his work on his LinkedIn profile.
Marielle Beaulieu (marieb4@uw.edu), Neuroscience (Raible Lab)
Marielle (she/her) is a fourth year Molecular and Cellular Biology PhD student in Dr. David Raible's lab in the departments of Otolaryngology-HNS and Biological Structure. Marielle studies hair cell addition during sensory organ growth and regeneration in the zebrafish inner ear using a combination of single cell RNA-seq data analysis and in vivo approaches.
Mara Kapsner-Smith (mkapsner@uw.edu), Speech & Hearing Sciences (Eadie & Perkel Labs)
Mara Kapsner-Smith, M.S., CCC-SLP, is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington. Her research interests include identifying factors that predispose individuals to hyperfunctional voice disorders, and efficacy of voice therapy techniques. Her current work focuses on auditory-motor control of voice in individuals with and without hyperfunctional voice disorders.
DJ Audet, AuD, (daudet@uw.edu), Speech & Hearing Sciences (Brown Lab)
DJ is a second year PhD student in Dr. Andrew Brown’s lab exploring spatial hearing and the plasticity of the human auditory system.
Eric Lumsden, PhD, (elumsden@uw.edu), Biology (Perkel Lab)
Eric is a third year postdoctoral scholar in the lab of David Perkel. He utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach that includes electrophysiology, computational modeling and molecular biology methods to study the mechanisms underlying seasonal changes to the song circuit of Gambel's White-Crowned Sparrows. You can find more information about his work, background and contact information at the Perkel lab website (https://perkelab.wixsite.com/mysite) or his personal website (https://ericlumsden.github.io/).
Erik Petersen (erikp2@uw.edu), Speech & Hearing Sciences (Shen Lab)
I am a second-year postdoc in Dr. Yi Shen’s Applied Hearing Science lab. We develop new tools to rapidly assess hearing loss in the clinical setting. I am currently working on an adaptive algorithm for efficient Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) hearing threshold measurements. This algorithm is based on a Gaussian Process model that estimates the ABR evoked potentials across a wide range of frequencies and levels using only a subset of stimuli. The statistical model makes no assumptions of waveform morphology and can therefore be used across different species with minimal modification. Intended applications include hearing assessment of infants in clinical settings as well as animals studied in research labs.
Jennifer Brodsky, DPT (jsupowit@uw.edu), Rehabilitation Science (Phillips Lab)
Jennifer (Niffer) (she/her) is a third year PhD student in Rehabilitation Science working the Phillips lab. Her research interest is in understanding the role of dopamine in the human central and peripheral vestibular system, and its effects on postural control. Her current work uses Parkinson disease, which results in decreased dopamine in the brain, as a model to explore how vestibular physiological measures and postural control change when people with Parkinson disease are off and on their dopaminergic medications.