The BCN Group 2019-2020
standing (back row): Dr. Mark Lewis, Mina Elhamiasl, Sara Pickernell, Maeve Boylan, Cassandra Modrak, Courtney Wilkinson, Rebecca Polk, Dr. Peter Kvam, Dr. Marek Schwendt, Dr. Andreas Keil, Dr. Ryan Mears, Dr. Ben Lewis
standing (middle row): Dr. Lisa Scott, Anna Farmer, Kierstin Riels, Julianne Price, Marilyn Horta, Dr. Brian Odegaard, Dr. Steven Weisberg, Dr. Darragh Devine
kneeling/sitting (in front): Pewiwei Liu, Javier Mesa, Ian Frazier, Matt Friedl, Peter Hamor
missing: Dr. Margaret Bradley, Dr. Natalie Ebner, Christian Garcia, Dr. Darlene Kertes, Dr. Lori Knackstedt, John Leri, John Shallcross
Faculty
Margaret Bradley, Ph.D., Research Professor. Psychobiology of attention and emotion.
Darragh P. Devine, Ph.D., Professor and Director. Neurobiology of self-injurious behavior, neurobiology of autism spectrum disorder.
Andreas Keil, Ph.D. Professor. Psychophysiology of emotion, temporal dynamics of perception/attention, oscillatory activity of the human cerebral cortex.
Lori Knackstedt, Ph.D., Associate Professor. Neurobiology of drug addiction.
Peter Kvam, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Computational modeling of decision making.
Brian Odegaard, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Perception, Attention, and Consciousness.
Marek Schwendt, Ph.D. Assistant Professor. Neurobiology of drug addiction, motivated behavior and cognition.
Steven Weisberg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Cognitive neuroscience of spatial navigation.
Faculty with Joint Appointments in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience:
Natalie C. Ebner, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology. Development and interplay of motivation, emotion, and cognition across the lifespan.
Darlene A. Kertes, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology. Neurobiology of stress, gene-environment/epigenetic processes, human development.
Ben Lewis, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Alcohol-related research from a neurobehavioral perspective.
Mark H. Lewis, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry. Neurochemistry of stereotyped behavior disorders.
Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience of substance abuse.
Lisa S. Scott, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology. Brain, cognition, and development.
Barry Setlow, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry. neural basis of risky choice behaviors.
Amanda Elton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor. Human cognitive neuroscience related to substance use, neuroimaging.
Professor Emereti:
W. Keith Berg, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus. Psychophysiological measures in humans.
Donald A. Dewsbury, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus. History of psychology; Comparative psychology.
Ira Fischler, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus. Human memory and information processing, psychophysiology of cognition.
Richard A. Griggs, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus. Deductive reasoning and teaching of psychology.
Robert D. Sorkin, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus. Auditory perception, signal detection and decision-making, and human factors.
Donald J. Stehouwer, Ph.D., Professor. Developmental neurobiology, development of motor systems.
Philip Teitelbaum, Ph.D., Graduate Research Professor. Analysis of human movement disorders.
Keith D. White, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus. Visual perception, and sensory integration.
Past Graduates (2010-2016)
| Name, Degree | Starting Year |
Degree Sought |
Advisor | |
| Bhatt, Samarth | 2016 | M.S., Ph.D. | Kertes | ssbhatt@ufl.edu |
| Jessica Campbell | 2015 | M.S., Ph.D. | Abrams | jesscamp616@ufl.edu |
| Allison Carr | 2016 | M.S., Ph.D. | Scott | acarr5@ufl.edu |
| Lisa Curry-Pochy | 2015 | M.S., Ph.D. | Lewis | lisa.curry@ufl.edu |
| Christian Garcia | 2016 | M.S., Ph.D. | Nixon | christiangarcia@ufl.edu |
| Marilyn Horta | 2014 | M.S., Ph.D. | Ebner | mhorta09@ufl.edu |
| Leslie Howard | 2016 | M.S., Ph.D. | Knackstedt | lrh223@ufl.edu |
| Dulce Minaya | 2013 | Ph.D. | Rowland | dminaya@ufl.edu |
| Ian Frazier | 2015 | Ph.D. | Ebner | ianfrazier@ufl.edu |
| Christina Gobin | 2014 | Ph.D. | Schwendt | cgobin@ufl.edu |
| Forest Gruss | 2012 | Ph.D. | Keil | loforest@ufl.edu |
| Peter Hamor | 2016 | M.S., Ph.D. | Schwendt | puhamor@ufl.edu |
| Lauren Hoffman | 2011 | Ph.D. | Nixon | lahoffman@ufl.edu |
| Arjun Iyer | 2015 | Ph.D. | Scott | aiyer1217@ufl.edu |
| Carly Logan | 2015 | M.S., Ph.D. | Knackstedt | clogan10@ufl.edu |
| Désirée Lussier | 2015 | M.S., Ph.D. | Ebner | desiree.lussier@ufl.edu |
| Dulce Minaya | 2013 | Ph.D. | Rowland | dminaya@ufl.edu |
| Nathan Petro | 2013 | Ph.D. | Keil | npetro@ufl.edu |
| Julianne Price | 2015 | Ph.D. | Nixon | juliannelp@ufl.edu |
| John Shallcross | 2015 | M.S., Ph.D. | Schwendt | jshallcross@ufl.edu |
| Danielle Stahl Davis | 2011 | Ph.D. | Abrams | dstahldavis@ufl.edu |
| Bethany Stennett | 2013 | Ph.D. | Knackstedt | bstennett@ufl.edu |
| Nina Thigpen | 2014 | Ph.D. | Keil | nthigpen@ufl.edu |
| Bradley Wilkes | 2011 | Ph.D. | Lewis | bwilkes@ufl.edu |
| Xiaomeng Yuan | 2010 | Ph.D. | Keil | verabbit@ufl.edu |