The Team
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PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
![Person_headshot1](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Person_headshot1.jpg)
Abigail Person, PhD
BA Oberlin College
PhD University of Washington
Neural mechanisms of song learning in songbirds
Advisor: David J Perkel
Postdoctoral fellowship: National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
Sensory integration in VMHvl and role in female lordosis behavior
Advisor: Minmin Luo
Postdoctoral fellowship: Northwestern University
Purkinje integration by downstream targets: roles in information transmission and plasticity.
Advisor: Indira Raman
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
![Neta Ilan (1366)](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Neta-Ilan-1366-264x300.jpg)
Abed Nashef, PhD
Project: The role of cerebellar output to different downstream structures in motor control and learning.
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Susan Coltman, PhD
Project: Forelimb motor unit patterning across learning
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Andrew Moran, PhD
Project: Decoding the spatial context of odor information across early cerebellar circuitry during goal-directed reach
GRADUATE STUDENTS
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Taylor Yamauchi
Medical Scientist Training Program
Project: Role of cerebellar inputs to the superior colliculus in orienting movements
![IMG_5590](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/IMG_5590-200x300.jpeg)
Courtney Dobrott
Neuroscience Graduate program
Project: Role of cerebellar output in the control of motor coordination
PROFESSIONAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE
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Mike Spindle
Sr. Professional Research Assistant
Project: Input/output relationships in the cerebellar nuclei
Undergraduates
Aya Miften
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Project:
ALUMNI AND PAST MEMBERS
![Dylan](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Dylan-288x300.jpg)
Dylan Calame
Medical Scientist Training Program
Project: Tuning of the cerebellar cortex in reaching movements
![Jesse](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Jesse-233x300.jpg)
Jesse Gilmer
Neuroscience Program
Project: Translation of cerebellar output to motor control
![Headshot mini](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Headshot-mini-300x259.png)
Matt Becker
Neuroscience Graduate Program, Medical Scientist Training Program
Project: Role of cerebellum in motor control
![christy](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/christy-284x300.jpg)
Christy Beitzel, PhD
Neuroscience Program
Project: Red nucleus afferents to the cerebellum: structure and function
![ted](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ted-262x300.jpg)
Ted Doykos
Neuroscience Program
Project: Cerebellar contribution to orienting behaviors
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Samantha Lewis
![Sawako](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Sawako.jpg)
Sawako Fukushima, PhD
(nee Tabuchi)
Project: Engagement of cortical microcircuitry by identified mossy fiber afferents
![Me](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Me-225x300.jpg)
Elena Judd
![Cheasequah](http://www.personlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Cheasequah-215x300.jpg)
Cheasequah Blevins, PhD
Project: Determining kinematic effectors of successful arm movements.