Entering Class 2020
E-MAIL: dmendez@umn.edu
Undergraduate Institution and Major:
California State University - Fullerton, B.S. in Biological Sciences, 2012
Graduate Advisor
Thomas Bastian, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics
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- Alumni
- Alphabetical List of Alumni
- A-D
- Joanna Abrams
- Sandra Alcala
- Fatou Amar
- Therese Amos
- Brian Andersen
- Bruno Averbeck
- Habiba Azab
- Amanda Barks
- Justin Barnes
- Alexandra Basford
- Lisa Bellavance English
- Kyle Biesecker
- Murray Blackmore
- Rachael Blackman
- Krista Bluske
- Elias Boroda
- Katya Brunette
- Mark Brady
- Terence Burns
- Liam Callahan
- Bridget Campion
- Danita Carlson
- Erik Carlson
- Michelle Carter
- Ian Cheong
- Zoe Christenson Wick
- Benjamin Clark
- John Patrick (JP) Clark
- Nathan Connors
- Jennifer Cook
- Michelle Corkrum
- Patricia Costello
- Samuel Cramer
- Kevin Crisp
- David Crowe
- Robert Dado
- Steve Davidson
- Michelle Davies (Arnhold)
- Nancy Day
- Stacy Decker
- Adele DeNicola
- Robert Dunbar
- Caitlin Durkee
- Derek Dziobek
- E-H
- Rogene Eichler West
- Kevin Engel
- Alan Ernst
- Austin Ferro
- Erwin Ferri
- Antonio Fortes
- Dan Franc
- Ada Fraticelli
- Stephanie Fretham (Bohmer)
- Joe Fullmer
- Marc Galeazza
- Julia Gamache
- Scott Gehler
- James Gielissen
- Laura Gilchrist
- Virginia Goettl
- Jose Gomez
- Timothy Gomez
- Cory Goracke-Postle
- Matthew Green
- Susan Greimel
- Jack Grinband
- Kellie Gross
- Rachel Groth
- Ming Gu
- Eric Gustafson
- Matthew Hagen
- Maureen Handoko
- Charles Hanson
- Leah Hanson
- Brendan Hasz
- Valerie Hedges
- Stephen Helms Tillery
- Dori Henderson
- Uta Herrmann (Wolfe)
- Angela Hewitt
- Katherine Himes
- Abbey Holt
- Katie Howe (Mitschele)
- I-L
- Marissa Iden Boulware
- Anna Ingebretson
- Jadin Jackson
- Elizabeth Jansen
- Trenton Jerde
- Lisa Johanek
- Adam Johnson
- Nathan Jorgensen
- Lyric Jorgenson
- William Jurney
- Kristen Kallestad (Thorstenson)
- James Katter
- C. Dirk Keene
- Lois Kehl
- Bruce Kennedy
- Stephen Kerrigan
- Stanislav Kholmanskikh
- Holly Kordasiewicz (Brownrigg)
- Tess Kornfield
- Marcos Kuroki
- Zeb Kurth-Nelson
- Aaron Lambert
- Laura Landers (Sherpetis)
- Fred Langheim
- Erin Larson
- Heather Leong
- Therissa Libby
- David Linden
- Justin Lines
- Jessie Luoma
- Jessica Lynch
- M-P
- Carol Ma (Huifang)
- Chani Maher (Becker)
- Marcela Maldonado (Barajas)
- Peter Malen
- Bonnie Marsick
- Brian McAdams
- Janna Moen
- Nora McCall
- Anna Meehan-Enright
- Monica Metea
- Nancy Michael (Staffend)
- Eric Miller
- Anusha Mishra
- Craig Moodie
- Elisabeth Moore
- Kelsey Moore
- Hannah Moser
- Leigh Ann Mrotek
- Vivek Nagaraj
- Jennifer Nagode
- Amy Naleid (MacDonald)
- Thomas Naselaris
- Morgan Newhoff
- Meredith Noetzel
- Scott Oakman
- Catherine Ojakangas
- Cheryl Olman
- Timothy Olson
- Xilma R. Ortiz-Gonzalez
- Aaron Overland
- Ed Overstreet
- Andrew Papale
- Marc Parent
- Min-Yoon Park
- Ann Parsons
- Rachel Penrod-Martin
- Claudio Perez-Leighton
- Judit Perez Ortiz
- Brittni Peterson
- Vadim Petruk
- Marc Pisansky
- James Pomonis
- Nicholas Port
- Carl Potenzieri
- Nate Powell
- Joshua Puhl
- Q-T
- Emily Semaya
- Anna Radke (Harrison)
- Robert Raike
- Paul Regier
- Kenneth Reinert
- Patrick Rothwell
- Audrey Royer (Smith)
- Jose San Miguel-Ruiz
- Catherine Satterfield
- Michael Paul Schallmo
- Tiffany Schmidt
- Neil Schmitzer-Torbert
- Blaine Schneider
- Cicely Schramm
- Kristin Schreiber
- Katrina Schrode
- Jennifer Schumacher
- Daniel Schuster
- Sharad Shanbhag
- Robert Shannon
- Samuel Shuster
- Amila Silva
- Lawrence Silvermintz
- Balvindar Singh
- Romina Sosa
- Anja Srienc
- Rebecca Speltz Paiz
- Adam Steiner
- Christopher Stern
- Eric Stevens
- Laura Stone
- Laura Stone
- Jeff Stott
- Martha Streng
- Cheryl Stucky
- Steven Sullivan
- Brian Sweis
- Serena Thompson
- Andrew Thorpe
- Katherine Tonn Eisinger
- Nathalia Torres Jimenez
- U-Z
- Cody Walters
- Yve Ulrich-Lai
- Britta Veitenheimer Rupp
- Ruben Velazquez
- Toby Velte
- Tou Yia Vue
- Lucy Vulchanova
- Jon Waataja
- David Waid
- Diana Wallin
- Guang Jian Wang
- Maya (Zhe) Wang
- Scott Warren
- Jason Weick
- Katherine Weiner (Fallen)
- Heather Wenk
- Marcus Westerman
- Katie Wiens
- Tim Wiggin
- Andrew Wikenheiser
- Cheri Williams
- Christy Willoughby
- Cheryl Wotus
- Emily Wozniak (Leathley)
- Shannon Wright
- Mariah Wu
- Wei Wu
- Michael (Seng Bum) Yoo
- Roberto Zayas
- Zachary Zeidler
- Jennifer Zick
- Natalie Zlebnik
- A-D
- Alumni by Year of Completion
- Alumni Outcomes & Current Positions
- Alphabetical List of Alumni
- Faculty
- Alphabetical Faculty List
- A-D
- E-H
- Timothy Ebner
- Jed Elison
- Stephen Engel
- Carolyn Fairbanks
- S.H. Fatemi
- Karen Fitzakerley
- William Frey
- Laura Gammill
- Michael Georgieff
- Apostolos Georgopoulos
- Jonathan Gewirtz
- Geoff Ghose
- Bernadette Gillick
- Rocio Gomez-Pastor
- Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
- Andrew Grande
- Steven Graves
- Nicola Grissom
- Stephanie Groman
- Andrew Harris
- Benjamin Hayden
- Sheng He
- Sarah Heilbronner
- I-L
- William Iacono
- Paul Iaizzo
- Suma Jacob
- Matthew Johnson
- Harald Junge
- Peter Kang
- Prakash Kara
- Kendrick Kay
- Aaron Kerlin
- Daniel J. Kersten
- Suhasa Kodandaramaiah
- Paulo Kofuji
- Jürgen Konczak
- Michael Koob
- Catherine Kotz
- Esther Krook-Magnuson
- Lorene Lanier
- Sid Kuo
- David Largaespada
- Alice A. Larson
- Anna Lee
- Gordon Legge
- Julia Lemos
- Sylvain Lesne
- Danni Li
- Ling Li
- Dezhi Liao
- Hubert Lim
- Kelvin Lim
- Wensheng Lin
- Shmuel Lissek
- Walter Low
- M-P
- Angus MacDonald III
- Colum MacKinnon
- Silvia Mangia
- Mark Masino
- Linda McLoon
- Robert Meisel
- Paul Mermelstein
- Karen Mesce
- Yasushi Nakagawa
- Tay Netoff
- Eric Newman
- Jessica Nielson
- Duane Nykamp
- Cheryl Olman
- Harry T. Orr
- John W. Osborn, Jr.
- Gülin Öz
- Jose Pardo
- Ann Parr
- Giuseppe Pellizzer
- Rita Perlingeiro
- Philip Portoghese
- Marco Pravetoni
- Q-T
- U-Z
- Policy on Faculty Membership
- Committees
- Resources for Mentoring
- Resources for Helping Students In Need
- Alphabetical Faculty List
- Areas of Research
- Behavior and Cognitive Neurosciences
- Computational Neuroscience
- Developmental Neuroscience
- Motor Control, Muscle Function, and Disease
- Neurobiology of Pain and Somatosensation
- Neurodegenerative Diseases and Neural Injury
- Neuroendocrine and Homeostatic Systems
- Neuroengineering
- Neurogenetics
- Neuroimaging and Optogenetics
- Neuropharmaceutics and Neuro-oncology
- Neuropsychiatric Disease
- Neuroscience of Auditory and Vestibular Systems
- Neuroscience of Drug Abuse and Addiction
- Regenerative Medicine for Neural Systems
- Synaptic Plasticity and Learning
- Visual Neuroscience
- Community
- Graduate Program in Neuroscience Event Calendar
- Colloquium & Seminars
- Outreach
- Affiliated Groups
- Department of Neuroscience
- U of MN Academic Health Center
- U of MN Graduate School
- Brain Science Center (BSC)
- Center for Cognitive Sciences (CCS)
- Center for Neurobehavioral Development (CNBD)
- Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR)
- Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development (GCD)
- Department of Pharmacology
- Institute of Child Development (ICD)
- PharmacoNeuroImmunology (PNI)
- Carnegie Initiative on the Doctorate
- Awards
- Contact