Our Team
Brian Gulbransen, PhD
Principal Investigator
MSU Foundation Professor
Associate Professor
Jonathon McClain, MS
Laboratory Manager
Postdoctoral Trainees
Jacques Gonzales, PhD
Effects of early life adversity on glia, pannexin-1 functions in the ENS
Beatriz Bastos de Moraes Thomasi, PhD
Role of glia in enteric neuroplasticity following GI inflammation
Marie Hanscom, PhD
Neurohumoral regulation of PVAT, vagal-glial crosstalk in the gut
Predoctoral Trainees
Wilmarie Morales-Soto, BS
Neuroscience PhD Program
Visha Parmar, BS
DO/PhD Program (Physiology)
Lab Alumni
Former PhD trainees
Isola Brown, PhD
(Current: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Ninotchska Delvalle, PhD
(Current: Research Associate, Community Tissue Services)
Aaron Chow, DO/PhD
(Current: Pathology Residency, Ohio State University)
Mustafa Ahmadzai, DO/PhD
(Current: Anesthesiology Residency, University of Iowa)
Christine Darshika Ponnampalam, MD/PhD
(Current: Clinical training - MD/PhD program)
Former Postdoctoral trainees
Siomara Hernandez-Rivera, PhD
(Current: Research Associate, Covance Pharmaceuticals)
Vladimir Grubisic, MD/PhD
(Current: Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology)
Luisa Seguella, PhD
(Current: Assistant Professor, Sapienza University of Rome)