Program Leadership

Welcome from the Director

Emory’s graduate program in Neuroscience (NS) combines instruction in professional development with multidisciplinary scientific training to promote a successful career in neuroscience. Research training in the NS Program spans multiple domains of scientific inquiry, and most faculty undertake projects that transcend individual categories. Drawn from over 20 separate departments and centers, NS faculty research efforts can be broadly separated into seven areas of inquiry (see the sidebar on the right to read more about them). On behalf of our collegial and highly-engaged academic community, I welcome you to learn more about our program throughout our website.

Program Leadership

Director:
Shannon Gourley, PhD, Associate Professor, Pediatrics

Director of Graduate Studies:
Year 1-2, Gordon Berman, PhD, Professor, Biology and Physics
Year 3+ (A-I), Michael Borich, PhD, Associate Professor, Rehabilitation Medicine
Year 3+ (J-Z), Sanne van Rooij, PhD, Associate Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Director of Recruitment:
Alan Emanuel, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cell Biology
Chris Rodgers, PhD, Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Andrew Escayg, PhD, Professor, Human Genetics

MD/PhD Liaison:
Lisa Sudmeier, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology

Program Administrator:
Rosalyn Lightfoot

Executive Committee:

Mandy Bekhbat (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Gordon Berman (Biology)
Michael Borich (Rehabilitation Medicine)
Vincent Costa (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Sayantan Datta (Ophthalmology)
Anita Devineni (Biology)
Alan Emanuel (Cell Biology)
Andrew Escayg (Human Genetics)
Candace Fleischer (Radiology)
Shannon Gourley (Pediatrics)
Madeline Hackney (Geriatrics)
Trisha Kesar (Rehabilitation Medicine)
Robert Liu (Biology)
Zach McEachin (Human Genetics)
Vas Michopoulos (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Nisha Raj (Human Genetics)
Chris Rodgers (Neurosurgery)
Leah Roesch (NBB)
Tim Sampson (Cell Biology)
Mar Sanchez (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Sarah Shultz (Pediatrics)
Steven Sloan (Human Genetics)
Yoland Smith (Neurology)
Jennifer Stevens (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Lisa Sudmeier (Human Genetics)
Sanne van Rooij (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Jill Ward (Cell Biology)
Zhexing Wen (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences)
Pete Wenner (Cell Biology)
Dianna Williams (Pharmacology)

GIN Co-Presidents

Kareem Chambers
Aranis Muniz-Perez

GIN Executive Committee Representatives

Mckenna Romac
Patlapa Sompolpong

NS Committees

Co-Chairs: Alan Emanuel, Chris Rodgers, Andrew Escayg

Members: Jimena Andersen, Inyeong Choi, Sulagna Das, Anita Devineni, Alan Emanuel, Sandra M. Garraway, Madeleine E. Hackney, Daniel Harper, Trisha M. Kesar, Philip Augustus Kragel, Jeffrey Markowitz, Yoland Smith, Lisa Sudmeier, Zhexing Wen, Levi Wood, Jian Zhou

Student Members:

Robert Lamprecht
Martin Griffin

Sarah Shultz (Chair)
David Weinshenker
Jie Jiang
Anita Devineni

Jennifer Stevens (Chair)
Yoland Smith
Francisco Alvarez
Matt Rowan
Sanne van Rooij
Aryaman Gala (Student Member)
Abigail Driggers (Student Member)

Pete Wenner, Director, IBS 514 (Cellular, Developmental and Molecular Neuroscience)
Candace Fleischer, Co-Director, IBS 522R (Grant Writing)
Vincent Costa, Co-Director, IBS 522R (Grant Writing)
Yoland Smith, Director, IBS 526 (Neuroanatomy and Systems Neuroscience)
Zhexing Wen, Chair, IBS 530R (Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar)
Sayantan Datta, Co-Chair, IBS 530R (Frontiers in Neuroscience Seminar)
Anita Devineni, Co-Director, NS 551 (Techniques in Neuroscience)
Trisha Kesar, Co-Director, NS 551 (Techniques in Neuroscience)
Tim Sampson, Co-Director, NS 570R (Professional Development-Fall)
Nisha Raj, Co-Director, NS 570R (Professional Development-Fall)
Steven Sloan, Co-Director, NS 570R (Professional Development-Fall)
Zach McEachin, Co-Director, NS 570R (Professional Development-Fall)