Members
Neal Waxham, Ph.D.
I received a B.S. in Microbiology from Penn State in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Immunology and Infectious Disease from Johns Hopkins in 1984 under the mentorship of Dr. Jerry Wolinsky. After a brief post-doctoral period, I joined the faculty first in Neurology at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston, and then moved to the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy in 1990. I'm presently the William Wheless III Professor in Biomedical Science and Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the McGovern Medical School in Houston.
See a complete list of publications here.
Christina Di Mauro
Research Assistant
Christina obtained her B.S. from Southern Illinois and M.S. from Eastern Illinois. She recently graduated with a nursing degree from UTMB-Galveston
She joined the lab in June 2020 and has worked full and part time since then.
Recent Past Members
Lydia Mireles
Research Assistant
Lydia obtained her B.S. from Univ. TX-Austin with a degree in Biochemistry.
She joined the lab in 2022 and is presently in the Biochemistry Ph.D. Program at Univ. of Houston
Eileen Gomez
Research Assistant
Eileen obtained her B.S. from Univ. of the South with a degree in Neuroscience.
She joined the lab in 2023 and is presently in the Neuroscience Ph.D. Program at UTMB-Galveston
Past Members
Genny Karam
Postgraduate Fellow
Genny is a recent graduate (2020) from Texas A&M in Psychology who joined the lab in 2021.
Doug Welsch
Undergraduate Fellow
Doug is a recent Rice University graduate studying Cell Biology and Computer Science and worked in the lab in 2020-2022. He is presently a data analyst in the Cheng lab at Univ of Alabama - Birmingham
Ellen Morris
Undergraduate Fellow
Ellen did a summer internship in the lab in 2019 and is now attending St. Thomas
Sarah Song
Research Assistant
Sarah obtained her B.S. from UT-Austin in 2017 and after two years in the lab attended medical school at UT-Houston, graduated in 2023, and is presently a resident in Pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Univ.
Elaine Huang
Undergraduate Fellow
Elaine did a summer research fellowship in 2019 and graudate from Rice Univ in 2022. She is presently pursing a Master's in Bioscience and Health policy at Rice Univ.
Paige Dahlberg
Research Assistant
Paige obtained her B.S. from Univ. of Minnesota. She joined the lab in February 2021.
Amna Naqvi
Research Assistant
Amna obtained her B.S. from UT-Austin in 2019 and after a year started Medical School at UT-San Antonio in 2020. She graduated in 2024 and is presently doing her internship at Methodist Hospital-Houston
Celine Waxham
Undergraduate Fellow
Celine did a summer research fellowship in 2019 and recently graduated from TCU. She's presently working at Lemnis Capital in Dallas.