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Brad King, PhD

After completing his B.S. at Texas Christian University (US) in 2004, Brad joined the Developmental Motor Control Laboratory led by Dr. Jane Clark at the University of Maryland (US) where he completed both his Master’s (2006) and PhD (2011). He completed postdoctoral fellowships in the laboratories of Dr. Julien Doyon at the University of Montreal (Canada) and Dr. Stephan Swinnen at the KU Leuven (Belgium). Brad started at the University of Utah in August 2020. Broadly, his research adopts the motor system as a model to investigate the neuroplasticity underlying learning and memory processes across the human lifespan.

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Anke Van Roy, MS

Anke is a Belgian national, who did her bachelors and masters in the field of movement science at the KU Leuven (Belgium). For her master's thesis, she investigated the behavioral and neural characteristics of motor memory consolidation and how this process can be influenced by the application of electrical tactile finger stimulation. In January 2021, she started her PhD in the Lifespan Motor Neuroscience Lab. She will continue to focus on motor learning and memory consolidation, but now with a special emphasis on these processes in children.

Abigail (Abba) White, BS

Abba completed her bachelors in Exercise Science at Colorado Mesa University in 2022. While completing her undergraduate degree, she participated as an intern at the TORCH Lab studying the epidemiology of traumatic brain injuries in primarily Veteran cohorts and working with big data. She joined the Lifespan Motor Neuroscience Lab in August of 2023 to pursue her masters in Cognitive and Motor Neuroscience and will be investigating the effects of exercise on GABA levels in deep brain regions.

Haley Blomquist

Haley is a 2nd year Psychology undergraduate student at the U. She joins the LMN as a 2x Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) awardee and is examining the impact of exercise on neural inhibition in young healthy adults.