CURRENT MEMBERS OF THE LAB
daniel J Tobiansky, PhD (Lab pi)
I am currently looking for highly motivated and hard-working undergraduate students at SMCM for SMPs, directed research, or general research experience.
anna estremsky
Anna is a Biology and Neuroscience double major, interested in human anatomy and medicine. She is currently working on a research project in the SURF program looking at tauopathies in non-model organisms.
St Mary’s Project (SMP) Honors Thesis Students (2023)
TARA BARNES
Tara is a neuroscience major. Her interests include painting and drawing the human body. She enjoys studying human anatomy, pathology and neuroscience. She is excited to research and perform tests using physics to examine the woodpecker brain.
Breanna Berry
Breanna is a senior and a double major in Psychology and Neuroscience. She enjoys being outside and going on hikes, listening to music, and hanging out with my friends. She aspires to be a doctor. She plans on entering a post-bac program so she can continue my education before applying for medical school.
LARA MARINICH
Lara is completing her SMP during the Fall of 2023 and the Spring of 2024. She is planning on evaluating parasite populations in Red-bellied Woodpeckers.
Zaviera Gaston
Zaviera is a Neuroscience major with a Biology minor. She is interested in determining the seasonality of stress hormones in woodpeckers and how these steroids predict behavior. They enjoy anything animal-related, singing, and watching crime/emergency medicine shows. She is a proud DeSousa-Brent Scholar and a member of the Burlesque club. After graduating from SMCM, they are hoping to get an Associates degree in Radiography.
JOCELYN NEUBAUER
Jocelyn is a Biology and Neuroscience double major. She is exploring evidence of brain injuries and tauopathies using bird species as a novel animal model. She is also a member of the Women's Rowing team and enjoys biking.
Angelica Hernandez-Velasquez
Angelica is a senior and a Neuroscience and Psychology double major. She loves learning about the brain in any aspect because its a never ending loop of new information. She has previously examined associations among negative life events, changes in cortico-limbic connectivity, and psychopathology using ABCD data sets. She is currently examining microglial markers in the brain in response to high-impact behaviors in birds