Who We Are
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 Instructors and Postdoctoral and Graduate Trainees
Grace L. Bancroft, UPenn Class of 2023 (Major: Neuroscience, Minor: Computer Science)
Undergrad project in Eisch Lab with Daily EL Mentor Sanghee Yun: Touchscreen-based assessment of cognition and mood-relevant behaviors in female and male mice
Research Fellow, Spring 2021, Summer 2021, 2021-2022 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher (NRSC 3999), 2022-2023 academic year
EL Research Technician starting September 18, 2023
Danielle Guez Barber, MD, PhD
Attending Physician in Child Neurology
Instructor funded by the CNCDP K12
Past support: Neurology T32
Project: Sex differences in a mouse model for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: role of microglia
Lorianna M. Colón, PhD
CHOP Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow (check out her spotlight!)
Project: Early life sex differences in limbic and reward circuitry
Frederico C. Kiffer, PhD
CHOP Postdoctoral Diversity Fellow
Past support: TRISH/NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
Project: Effects of galactic cosmic radiation on translationally-relevant cognitive behaviors and response to social stress
Sofia Nicolayevsky, BS (Major: Psychology, Minor: Biology)
Team Barber Research Technician
Project: Sex differences in a mouse model for hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy: role of microglia
Ruthie E. Wittenberg, BA
PhD Candidate, Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG)
Member of the Dani Lab
Project: Adolescent nicotine-induced enhancement of adult morphine-context associative learning: mediation by midbrain inhibitory circuits
Awarded a highly-competitive NIH/NIDA Individual Predoctoral NRSA Fellowship, 2021
Current Eisch Lab Graduate Rotation Students
Ilona Golynker, BS (Georgia State University, Major: Neuroscience)
Project: FACS isolation of brain microglia in a mouse model of hypoxia ischemia encephalopathy
Member, Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG)
PhD Rotation Student, Summer 2023
Daily Mentor: Danielle Barber
Naomi S. Johnson, BS (University of North Carolina, Major: Neuroscience, Minors: Chemistry and African/African American Studies)
Project: Effects of galactic cosmic radiation on brain-wide neuronal activation
Member, Neuroscience Graduate Group (NGG)
PhD Rotation Student, Summer 2023
Daily Mentor: Fred Kiffer
Here's Maisie, Naomi's sweet puppy.
Current Eisch Lab Undergraduates
(ordered by class year and last name)
CLASS of 2024
Meera Bathwal, UPenn Class of 2024
Overall Project: Impact of space radiation on mouse brain and behavior
Daily EL Mentor: Fred Kiffer
Research Fellow, Summer 2021
Research Fellow, 2021-2022 academic year
Volunteer Researcher, 2022-2023 academic year
Harley A. Haas, UPenn Class of 2024 (Major: Psychology)
Overall Project: Touchscreen-based assessment of cognition and mood-relevant behaviors in female and male mice
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Research Fellow, Summer 2020, Spring 2021, 2021-2022 academic year, Summer 2022
PURM Fellow, Summer 2021
Undergraduate Researcher (PSYC 4998-9), 2022-2023 academic year
SUIP Fellow, Summer 2023
Pragatee Narain, Drexel Class of 2024 (Major: Biological Sciences, Minor: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: Touchscreen-based assessment of cognition and mood-relevant behaviors in female and male mice
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Volunteer and Drexel Co-op Researcher, Summer 2023
CLASS of 2025
Kaya S. Johnson, UPenn Class of 2025 (Vagelos Scholar, Biochemistry/Neuroscience Major)
Overall Project: Brain lesion assessment in a mouse model of perinatal hypoxia ischemia
Daily EL Mentor: Danielle Barber
MLS Vagelos Fellow, Summer 2023
Ritvik Kumaran, Class of 2025 (University College Dublin - Medicine)
Overall Project: Assessing of behavior in a mouse model of perinatal hypoxia ischemia
Daily EL Mentor: Danielle Barber
Volunteer, Summer 2023
Amishi Mahajan, UPenn Class of 2025 (Vagelos Scholar, Biochemistry/Neuroscience Major)
Overall Project: Entorhinal Cortex-Hippocampal Circuitry: Stress and Memory Encoding
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Research Fellow, Summer 2022
Volunteer, 2022-2023 academic year
MLS Vagelos Fellow, Summer 2023
Hasun (Sunnie) Noh, Amherst College, Class of 2025 (Neuroscience and English)
Overall Project: Hippocampal neurogenesis in a mouse model of early-life onset epilepsy
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
CRISSP Scholar, Summer 2023
Elise Wallen-Friedman, UPenn Class of 2025
Overall Project: Are you good at “Spot The Difference” games? Understanding the neural substrates controlling behavioral pattern separation
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
PURM Fellow, Summer 2022
Volunteer, 2022-2023 academic year
Undergraduate Researcher (NEURO 3999), 2023-2024 academic year
CLASS of 2026
Yerahm Hong, UPenn Class of 2026 (Major: Bioengineering)
Overall Project (collaboration between Eisch Lab and Goldberg Lab): Cognitive and behavioral analysis of a mouse model of early childhood epilepsy
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
PURM Fellow, Summer 2023 (Host Lab: Ethan Goldberg)
Sage Leland, UPenn Class of 2026
Overall Project: Cognitive and behavioral analysis in translationally-relevant mouse models of psychiatric and neurologic disorders
Daily EL Mentor: Sanghee Yun
Volunteer, Summer 2023
Volunteer, Summer 2023
Research Fellow, Fall 2023
Ida Narli, Princeton Class of 2026 (Major: Neuroscience)
Overall Project: Brain lesion assessment in a mouse model of perinatal hypoxia ischemia
Daily EL Mentor: Danielle Barber
Volunteer, Summer 2023