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Research Program Mentors

Polygence mentors are selected based on their exceptional academic background, teaching experience, and unique ability to inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers and industry leaders.

Cognitive
Julia

Julia

PhD candidate

Expertise

social, cognitive and language development, developmental psychology

Trevor

Trevor

PhD candidate

Expertise

Neuroscience, Genetics, Biology, Probability, Statistics

Adrian

Adrian

PhD candidate

Expertise

Botany, ecology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, learning sciences

Paul

Paul

PhD

Expertise

language development, prelinguistic development, early intervention, children with disabilities

Nabila

Nabila

PhD candidate

Expertise

Psychology-mental health and well-being. Examining developmental populations, and themes of race/racism, poverty, the family, school, and community contexts. Mindfulness and academic trajectories for kids and youth.

Sehjoo

Sehjoo

PhD

Expertise

developmental cognitive neuroscience, adolescent brain development, social influence on decision-making, social relationships

Jacklyn

Jacklyn

MS

Expertise

Using machine learning and computational tools to solve problems in biology and health; neurodegenerative diseases; psychology (including topics in learning, memory, perception, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, minds & machines, clinical & abnormal psychology)

Brock

Brock

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience of consciousness, applications of machine learning to biomedical research, how do our genetic backgrounds influence our psychology

Rachel

Rachel

PhD candidate

Expertise

Neuropsychology, aging, dementia, neurodegeneration, neuroanatomy, transgenic animal models, histopathology, applying to graduate school

Gabrielle

Gabrielle

MS

Expertise

Neuroscience, Kinesiology, Healthcare, Public Health, Physical Rehabilitation

Kyle

Kyle

PhD

Expertise

Neuroscience of addiction and mental illness, genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in the brain, pharmaceuticals and pharmacology

Cristina

Cristina

PhD

Expertise

forensic linguistics, computational linguistics/NLP, linguistics/languages, cognitive science

david

david

EdD

Expertise

developmental psychology, early language and literacy, parent-child interactions, community support for early development

Matthew

Matthew

PhD candidate

Expertise

Cognitive neuroscience, memory/Alzheimer’s/dementia; music composition

Jobie

Jobie

DMD candidate

Expertise

Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Biotechnology, Dentistry, MedicineEntrepreneurialism, Dentistry, Medicine, Human Development, Organizational Behavior

Matthew

Matthew

PhD

Expertise

Learning and memory, behavioral neuroscience, neurobiology of disease, synaptic plasticity

Jessica Noche

Jessica Noche

PhD candidate

Expertise

Neuroscience, Alzheimer's disease, neuroimaging, neuroinflammation, biostatistics, neuropsychology, psychology, molecular biology, learning and memory, aging, scientific writing, scientific communication, research proposals, grant applications

Alexandra

Alexandra

PhD candidate

Expertise

Molecular Neuroscience, with an emphasis in biochemistry and structural biology

Alexandra

Alexandra

PhD candidate

Expertise

Molecular Neuroscience, with an emphasis in biochemistry and structural biology

Jianna

Jianna

MD candidate

Expertise

Neuroscience-Systems & Circuits, Medicine, Social Neuroscienc