Group Members

We are looking for new grad students and postdocs to join the team (see openings)!

Dr. Anna K. Gillespie

Assistant Professor
annagill (at) uw.edu

Ian O’Leary

Lab Manager
cioleary (at) uw.edu

Gabby Shvartsman

Graduate Student

Violet Saathoff

Research Technician

Zhana Prince

Research Technician

Molly Park

Undergraduate Student

Jason Tran

Undergraduate Student

Sophie Robertson

Undergraduate Student

This could be you!

See “Join us!” tab above for more info

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