People
Mark S. Blumberg, Ph.D.
F. Wendell Miller Professor
Chair, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Email: mark-blumberg@uiowa.edu
Vita (pdf)
Greta Sokoloff, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Email: greta-sokoloff@uiowa.edu
Vita (pdf)
Brett Dwyer
Lab Manager
Email: brett-dwyer@uiowa.edu
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Hailey Long
Research Associate (Baby projects)
Email: hailey-long@uiowa.edu
Ryan Glanz
Psychology Graduate Student
Email: ryan-glanz@uiowa.edu
Vita (pdf)
Zipeng (Kev) You
Psychology Graduate Student
Email: zipeng-you@uiowa.edu
Angela Richardson
Neuroscience Graduate Student
Email: angela-m-richardson@uiowa.edu
Midha Ahmad
Psychology Graduate Student
Email: midha-ahmad@uiowa.edu
Alexia Lynn
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Victory Obielodan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Karen Kawala
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Daylan Carney
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lydia Karr
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Becky Yu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Hayley Chappell
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Celebrating the PhD defense of Ryan Glanz (far left) in November 2022. To his left are Angela Richardson, Zipeng Kev You, Midha Ahmad, Rachel Backstrom, Hailey Long, Kennedy, Glanz, and Brett Dwyer.
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Jimmy Dooley (postdoc, 2016-22), Alex Tiriac (PhD 2016), and Lex Gómez (PhD 2022) at the Iowa Neuroscience Institute event at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, SfN, October 2019. Jimmy is an assistant professor at Purdue University, Alex is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, and Lex is a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University.
Reunion of some past and present lab members at SfN in Chicago in October 2019. From left: Greta Sokoloff (PhD 2001; University of Iowa), Alex Tiriac (PhD 2016; Vanderbilt University), Rikki Laser (BS 2019; Cornell University), Mark Blumberg, Trey Todd (PhD 2012; University of Wyoming), Adele Seelke (PhD 2007; UC-Davis), Jimmy Dooley (postdoc; Purdue University), and Lex Gómez (PhD 2022; Johns Hopkins University).
Lab party at Jimmy and Michaela's, Iowa City, September 2017
Lab reception, Iowa City, May 2016. From left: Alex Yonk (Rutgers University), Nick Sattler (University of Oregon), Didhiti Mukherjee (University of Maryland), Jimmy Dooley, Greta Sokoloff, Alan Plumeau, Alex Tiriac (UC-Berkeley), and Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez.
Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC, 2011. From left: Alex Tiriac (UC-Berkeley), Adele Seelke (UC-Davis), Andy Gall (Hope College), Karl Karlsson (University of Reykjavik, with Nana), Greta Sokoloff, Mark Blumberg, Trey Todd (University of Wyoming), Brandt Uitermarkt, and Ethan Mohns (Yale University).
At Shorts, Iowa City, 2011. From left: Andy Gall, Trey Todd, Cassie Coleman, Alex Fanning, Alex Tiriac, Brandt Uitermarkt.
Graduate Student Alumni
Lex Gómez, Ph.D.
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University
Carlos Del Rio-Bermudez, Ph.D.
Postdoc, University of Bern, Switzerland
Science writer
Didhiti Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Postdoc, University of Maryland, College Park
Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University
Alex Tiriac, Ph.D.
Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley
Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University
Trey Todd, Ph.D.
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming
Andy Gall, Ph.D.
Postdoc, Michigan State University
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Hope College
Ethan Mohns, Ph.D.
Postdoc, HHMI, Janelia Farm
Postdoc, Yale University
Research Scientist, Yale University
Adele Seelke, Ph.D.
Postdoc, University of California, Davis
Research Associate II, University of California, Davis
Karl Karlsson, Ph.D.
Postdoc, UCLA
Professor, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Co-Founder, 3Z Pharmaceuticals
Joy C. Kreider, Ph.D.
Postdoc, University of Texas
Greta Sokoloff, Ph.D.
Postdoc, Indiana University
Research Associate, University of Chicago
Research Scientist, University of Iowa
Postdoctoral Alumni
James C. Dooley, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor, Purdue University)
Postdoc/Research Scientist, 2016-22
Greta Sokoloff, Ph.D. (Research Scientist, University of Iowa)
Postdoc/Research Scientist, 2011-present
Baishali Ray, Ph.D.
Postdoc, 2006-2007
Yossi Rathner, Ph.D. (Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne)
Postdoc, 2006-2007
Gonzalo Viana di Prisco, M.D., Ph.D. (Assistant Research Professor, Indiana University School of Medicine)
Postdoc, 2005-2006