Group Members

Dr. Anna K. Gillespie

Assistant Professor
annagill (at) uw.edu

Ian O’Leary

Lab Manager
cioleary (at) uw.edu

Gabby Shvartsman

Graduate Student

Josiah Quinn

Graduate Student

Zhana Prince

Research Technician

Jason Tran

Undergraduate Student

Tao Lim

SURFiN Undergraduate Student

Collaborators

Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain project

Saul Villeda and Jeremy Shea (UCSF), Loren Frank (UCSF), Lisa Giocomo (Stanford), and Amar Sahay (Harvard)

  • Assessing hippocampal gene expression changes with aging and linking them to behavioral and neural phenotypes

Eric Denovellis

Research scientist, Loren Frank lab, UCSF

  • Improving and extending spatial decoding algorithms

Marcelo Mattar and Homero Esmeraldo

University of California, San Diego

  • Reinforcement learning models to capture the role of hippocampal replay

Abhilasha Joshi

SCPAB TTI fellow, NCBS, India

  • Understanding how aging may desynchronize internal spatial representations and locomotor activity

Alumni

Sophie Robertson, Undergrad, 2025

Violet Saathoff, Research Technician, 2024-2025

Molly Park, Undergrad, 2023-2025