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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
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
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
Special Eisch Lab Colleagues (SELC)
Special Eisch Lab Colleagues (SELC)
Frederico C. Kiffer, PhD
July 2019: Postdoctoral Fellow
July 2024: CHOP Staff Scientist
2019-2024: CHOP Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow (check out his cornerstone piece!)
2025: SELC, Behavioral Phenotype Lead @ Talmo Lab
Past support: TRISH/NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Project: Effects of galactic cosmic radiation on translationally-relevant cognitive behaviors and response to social stress
Sanghee Yun, PhD
Assistant Professor Anesthesiology and Critical Care, CHOP
2016-2025: Eisch Lab Assistant Director
2026: Director, BEAMS (Behavioral Evaluation of Advanced Model Systems) at BRIDGE (Behavioral Research in Development Genetics and Engineering)
Sanghee Yun, PhD
Current Eisch Lab Graduate Rotation Students
Current Eisch Lab Graduate Rotation Students
Accepting Penn Biomedical Graduate Students rotation students for Summer 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 n
(ordered by class year and last n
CLASS of 2026
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
Undergraduate Researcher (NEURO 3999), Fall 2025
Undergraduate Researcher (NEURO 4999), Winter/Spring 2026
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
Undergraduate Researcher (NEURO 3999), 2025-2026 academic year
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 (NEURO 4999), 2024-2025 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2025, funded by Penn Career Services
Undergraduate Researcher, 2025-2026 academic year
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, 2025-2026 academic year
CLASS of 2027
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
CLASS of 2028
Chrismely Castro, UPenn Class of 2028 (Major: Neuroscience)
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
Maggie Hu, UPenn Class of 2028 (Major: Neuroscience)
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
Bella No, UPenn School of Nursing Class of 2028, (Major: Neuroscience, Minor: Health Care Management)
Daily Mentor: Lori Colon, PhD
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
CLASS of 2029
Charlotte Knott, UPenn Class of 2029
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
Katherine Lee, UPenn Class of 2029
Daily Mentor: Alec Gibson, MD PhD
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
Adalia Vargas, UPenn Class of 2029
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
Amin Yarahmadi, UPenn Class of 2029
Undergraduate Researcher, Winter/Spring 2026
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