Dr. Radulovic studies how stressful experiences affect the brain memory circuits, and through stress-related memories influences social and emotional behavior. She is an expert in molecular and behavioral approaches, and combine these with in vivo/ex vivo recording to address her questions.

In addition to the lab in AU, she also lead a lab at the Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

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Dr. Tanimura hopes to understand the role of cortico-hippocampal circuits on the emotion and social behavior and how they are altered in stressed condition. She has an strong background in slice electrophysiology and viral/genetic tools including optogenetics and chemogenetics, and combines these approaches with in vivo recording and behavior to address her questions. 

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Dr. Yamawaki is interested in understanding how specific cell-type and circuits in brain produce memory-guided behavior and how they become maladaptive under stress. He is an expert in dissecting the circuit at the level of defined cell-type using antero-/retrograde labeling, slice electrophysiology, and optogenetics. He combines these with in vivo recording and behavior to address his questions. 

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Dr. Nakamoto investigates the role of hippocampal circuits on the emotional memory and the impact of stress on these circuits. She has an major background in genetic engineering and in/ex vivo fluorescent imaging. To address her questions, she combines tools for cell-type-specific circuit manipulation and in vivo imaging during behavior.  

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Dr. Hou focuses on characterizing the GABAergic cell types in rodent (and human) brains, their roles in behavior, specifically fear learning and sleep, and their alteration by stress and psychiatric disorders in animal models. He has a strong background in in vitro and in vivo electrophysiology, Patch-seq, and optogenetic/chemogenetic manipulation in animal behavior. He hopes to combine multidisciplinary approaches to broaden the current neuroscience view and address his research questions.

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Dr. Login is an expert of molecular/cellular approaches and helps these aspect of the projects, in addition to day-to-day administrative work for the lab. She also act as a leader of Local Working Environment Group in Skou Building

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Kassandra's research interest is in psychiatric disorders, in particular, schizophrenia and the role stress plays in the disorder. She has experience with immunohistochemistry, RNAscope, Western blot, and spatial transcriptomics, which she used to investigate the quantity and genetic expression of stress-regulating neurons in a post-mortem study of the paraventricular nucleus in the human hypothalamus.

Sol is a post-bachelor student running a project related to a circuit mechanism of stress-induced behavior. She first joined the lab in summer 2022 as a student intern for 5 months then as a HK student for a year. She is proficient in many techniques including the IHC, image quantifications, whole-brain reconstruction, and behavior analysis.