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Eisch Lab Leadership
Eisch Lab Leadership
Amelia J. Eisch, PhD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
Professor of Neuroscience, The University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (PennMed)
Eisch Lab Director
Sanghee Yun, PhD
Assistant Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care, CHOP
Eisch Lab Assistant Director
Current Postdoctoral and Graduate Trainees and Research Staff
Current Postdoctoral and Graduate Trainees and Research Staff
Niser A. Babiker, UChicago Class of 2023 (Major: Neuroscience)
Feb 2024: EL Research Technician
Member of Team Cognition with Daily EL Mentor Sanghee Yun
Overall project: Lateral entorhinal cortex fan cell activity during encoding and retrieval of behavioral pattern separation
Lorianna M. Colón, PhD
Sept 2021: EL Postdoctoral Fellow
2021-2024: CHOP Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow (check out her spotlight!)
Leader of Colón Addiction Team (CAT)
Project: Early life sex differences in limbic and reward circuitry
*AWARDED* Burroughs Wellcome Postdoctoral Diversity Enrichment Program (PDEP), 2024
*AWARDED* NIH/NIDA Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award (NRSA F32), 2025
Alec W. Gibson, MD PhD
PennMed Neurology Resident
Jan 2026: EL Postdoctoral Fellow
Project: The roles of serotonergic projections to the lateral entorhinal cortex in pattern separation
*AWARDED* NIH R25/UE5: Administrative Supplement for the NINDS Research Education Program for Residents and Fellows in Neurology, Neurosurgery, Neuropathology, Neuroradiology and Emergency Medicine, start date July 1, 2025
Valerie Heredia Piñeiro, Haverford College Class of 2025 (Majors: Neuroscience and French)
PennPREP Fellow, 2025-2026
June 2025-May 2026: EL Research Technician
Member of Team Cognition with Daily EL Mentor Sanghee Yun
Project (Summer 2025): Tracking cellular reactivation in the dentate gyrus during repeated behavioral pattern separation: A pilot study
Frederico C. Kiffer, PhD
July 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow
July 2024: CHOP Staff Scientist
2019-2024: CHOP Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow (check out his cornerstone piece!)
Past support: TRISH/NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Project: Effects of galactic cosmic radiation on translationally-relevant cognitive behaviors and response to social stress
Pragatee Narain, Drexel Class of 2024 (Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: Neuroscience)
Summer 2023: EL Drexel Co-op Volunteer
Sept 2024 - April 2025: EL Stipend Researcher
April 2025: EL & Zderic Lab Research Technician
Member of Team Cognition with Daily EL Mentor Sanghee Yun
Overall Project: Neural correlates of learning and memory during behavioral pattern separation
Current Eisch Lab Graduate Rotation Students
Current Eisch Lab Graduate Rotation Students
Tavian Sanchez, Penn Medicine MD-PhD, Class of ~'31
Fall 2025: Rotating NGG Graduate Student
Overall Project: Application of an open source, deep-learning-based framework for pose tracking during behavioral pattern separation
Accepting Penn Biomedical Graduate Students rotation students for academic year 2025-2026. Send a .pdf of your CV (no page limit) to eisch@upenn.edu to start the conversation with Dr. Eisch.
Current Eisch Lab Undergraduate Students
Current Eisch Lab Undergraduate Students
(ordered by class year and last name)
(ordered by class year and last name)
CLASS of 2026
Tyasia Cannon, UPenn Class of 2026 (Majors: Neuroscience and Sociology)
Overall Project: Entorhinal cortex-dentate gyrus circuit-based manipulation of mouse behavior: immunohistochemical validation of viral targeting
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Undergraduate Researcher, 2024-2025 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025
Roshni Datta, UPenn Class of 2026 (Major: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: Fentanyl conditioned place preference in male mice: machine-learning (SLEAP) based assessment of mouse movement
Daily EL Mentor: Lori Colón
Volunteer, Winter/Spring 2025
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025
Lucía Espina Vázquez, UPenn Class of 2026 (Major: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: The effects of whole-body 56Fe exposure on cFos+ cell number and stress-mediated social conflict brain networks in mice
Daily EL Mentor: Fred Kiffer
Volunteer, Spring 2024
PURM Fellow, Summer 2024
Undergraduate Researcher, 2024-2025 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025
Petros Karamanides, UPenn Class of 2026 (Major: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: Targeting memory encoding via optogenetic inhibition of a cortical-hippocampal circuit
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
CRISSP Scholar, Summer 2024
Undergraduate Researcher (NEURO 3999), 2024-2025 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025
Sage Leland, UPenn Class of 2026, University Scholars, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Major: Bioengineering, Minor: Computer Science)
Overall Project: Alterations in dentate gyrus neurogenesis in a mouse model of a genetic epilepsy
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Volunteer, Summer 2022
Volunteer, Summer 2023
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Summer 2024
Undergraduate Researcher (BE 4900), 2024-2025 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025
Jean C. Reyes, Class of 2026 (Major: Cognitive Science, Minor: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: The memory of a drug-context association: a study in female rats who have self-administered fentanyl
Daily EL Mentor: Lori Colón
PURM Fellow, Summer 2024
Volunteer, Winter/Spring 2025
CLASS of 2027
Shambhabi Gautam, UPenn Class of 2027
Overall Project: A machine learning-based (SLEAP) approach to assessing how the lack of gravity on the International Space Station influences mouse locomotion
Daily EL Mentor: Fred Kiffer
Volunteer, Spring 2024, Summer 2024
Undergraduate Researcher, 2024-2025 academic year
Julian Huang, UPenn Class of 2027
Overall Project: A machine learning-based (SLEAP) approach to assessing how the lack of gravity on the International Space Station influences mouse locomotion
Daily EL Mentor: Fred Kiffer
Volunteer, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
Undergraduate Researcher, 2024-2025 academic year
Nataley Kim, UPenn Class of 2027 (Major: Health and Societies)
Overall Project: Fentanyl conditioned place preference in male mice: machine-learning (SLEAP) based assessment of mouse movement
Daily EL Mentor: Lori Colón
Volunteer, Winter/Spring 2025
Samar Shroff, UPenn Class of 2027 (Major: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: Fentanyl conditioned place preference in male mice: hippocampal dentate gyrus cell activity
Daily EL Mentor: Lori Colón
Short-term Volunteer, Summer 2022
PURM Fellow, Summer 2024
Volunteer, 2024-2025 academic year
CLASS of 2028
Ariya Patel, UPenn Class of 2028
Overall Project: Entorhinal cortex cells and behavioral pattern separation: behavior analysis with SLEAP/Simba and miniscope calcium imaging analysis with Minian
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2025, Summer 2025
CLASS of 2029
Accepting Penn undergraduate students for academic year 2025-2026. Send a .pdf of your CV (no page limit) to eisch@upenn.edu to start the conversation with Dr. Eisch.
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