Our Team

Brian Gulbransen

Brian Gulbransen, PhD

Principal Investigator

MSU Foundation Professor

Associate Professor

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1145-3227

Jonathon McClain

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

Wilmarie Morales-Soto, BS

Neuroscience PhD Program

Visha Parmar, BS

DO/PhD Program (Physiology)

Lab Alumni

Former PhD trainees

Isola Brown

Isola Brown, PhD

(Current: Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology)

Ninotchska Delvalle

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 Ponnampalam

Christine Darshika Ponnampalam, MD/PhD

(Current: Clinical training - MD/PhD program)

Former Postdoctoral trainees

Siomara Hernandez-Rivera, PhD

(Current: Research Associate, Covance Pharmaceuticals)

Vlado Grubisic

Vladimir Grubisic, MD/PhD

(Current: Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology)

Luisa Seguella

Luisa Seguella, PhD

(Current: Assistant Professor, Sapienza University of Rome)