The BCN Group 2016-2017
standing (back row): Leslie Howard, Bethany Stenett, Dr. Marek Schwendt, Samarth Bhatt, Nathan Petro, Allison Carr, Dr. Chris Janus, Dr. Phillip Mears, Christian Garcia, Marilyn Horta, Arjun Iyer
standing (middle row): Dulce Minaya, Melissa Cervantez, Dr. Darlene Kertes, Lauren Hoffman, Julianne Price, Dr. Lori Knackstedt, Nina Thigpen, Christina Gobin, Desiree Lussier, Lisa Curry-Pochy
Tebowing (in front): Dr. Darragh Devine, Peter Hamor, Ian Frazier, Bradley Wilkes, Dr. Lisa Scott
missing: Dr. Margaret Bradley, Dr. Andreas Keil, Carly Logan, Dr. Neil Rowland, 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.
Neil E. Rowland, Ph.D., Professor. Physiology and neurochemistry of feeding.
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.
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.
Current Students, 2016-2017
| 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 |
Recent GRaduates of the Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Program
| Name | Ph.D. Received | Advisor | Current Employment |
| Keith Alfano | 2007 | Delaney | Principal Usability engineer, Dell computers. |
| Deniz Atalayer | 2010 | Rowland | Assistant Professor, Sabanci University (Turkey) |
| Allison Bechard | 2016 | Lewis | Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo |
| Tana Bleser-Carson | 2013 | Lewis | Adjunct Assistant Professor, UF Occupational Therapy |
| Melissa Cervantez | 2018 | Rowland | |
| Vincent Costa | 2011 | Bradley | Post-Doctoral Researcher, National Institutes of Health |
| Emily Splane (Crews) | 2004 | Rowland | Associate Professor & Chair of Social Sciences, Flagler College |
| Cedrick D. Dotson | 2006 | Spector | Principal Scientist, the Coca Cola Company |
| Meagan Farrell | 2012 | Abrams | Clinical Science Advisor, ERT Pharmaceuticals |
| Anastasia Ford | 2013 | White | Assistant Scientist, VA Hospital |
| Patricia Grebenstein | 2012 | Rowland | Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota |
| Megan Roth (Green) | 2007 | Devine | Director of Sponsored Research, Abilene Christian Univ. |
| Connie Grobe (Colbert) | 2006 | Rowland | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Dept. of Psychology, University of Iowa |
| Cynthia Kaschub | 2008 | Fischler | Office of Naval Research |
| Catherine Marcinkiewcz | 2010 | Devine | Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| Sara Margolin | 2007 | Abrams | Associate Professor, SUNY Brockport |
| Clare Mathes | 2008 | Rowland | Assistant Professor of Psychology, Baldwin-Wallace University |
| Melanie McEwen | 2000 | Stehouwer | Associate Consultant, Scientific Communication, Eli Lilly |
| Keith McGregor | 2010 | White | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Brain Imaging Rehab and Cognition Lab, UF |
| E. Menton DeWeese | 2015 | Keil | Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Univ Texas |
| Anaya Mitra | 2008 | Rowland | Assistant Professor, St. Catherine University |
| Burhan Ogut | 2008 | Fischler | Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research, Washington DC |
| Sabra Pelham | 2014 | Abrams | Assistant Professor, Spokane Falls Community College |
| Inkyung Song | 2015 | Keil | Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Univ & NY State Psychiatric Inst |
| Sridhar Srinivasan | 2014 | Smith | Post-Doctoral Researcher, Harvard U. & Acoustic Res.Inst. Vienna |
| Michael Staup | 2008 | Stehouwer | Staff scientist, Crown Bioscience |
| Bethany Stennett | 2018 | Knackstedt | Post-doctoral Researcher, UF |
| Yoko Tanimura | 2010 | Lewis | Post-Doctoral Researcher, University of Rochester |
| Jaime Tartar | 2004 | Devine | Associate Professor, Nova Southeastern University |
| Dunja Trunk | 2007 | Abrams | Associate Professor, Bloomfield College |
| Cheryl Vaughan | 2006 | Rowland | Research Coordinator, Emory University School of Medicine |
| Amber Muehlmann | 2011 | Devine | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Florida |
| Nathan Weinstock | 2015 | Devine | Assistant Director QC, AGTC (Biotech) |
| Katherine White | 2002 | Abrams | Associate Professor, Rhodes College |