People¶

Faculty¶

Willam Jagust

The Boss and Our Benevolent Dictator

Fellows¶

Ansgar Furst

The Pibster!

Ellen Klostermann Wallace

Direct from the Shimamura Lab, now working on network analysis with FMT.

Susan Landau

I am currently working on data analysis for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative ADNI , evaluating different types of potential biomarkers Alzheimer’s disease in order to apply them to the development of effective treatments in a clinical setting. Previous research examined the association between dopamine, healthy aging, and working memory function.

I completed my PhD in the lab of Mark D’Esposito at UC Berkeley, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study high-level cognition and the neural changes that occur with the acquisition of expertise.

My skills and abilities include: use of Excel for unconventional things, listening to a lot of podcasts, finding new things to mix with peanut butter, and working late at night. I can’t do handstands without the wall in yoga, but I do have very long arms.

You can find me at slandau at berkeley dot edu

Papers

[Landau2009_2] Associations between cognitive, functional, and FDG-PET measures of decline in AD and MC

[Landau2009] Striatal dopamine and working memory

Presentations and Posters

Pinpointing Change in Alzheimer’s Disease: Longitudinal FDG PET Analyses from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (.pdf)

Hwamee Oh

I joined the Jagust lab in July 2009 after receiving my PhD from SUNY-Stony Brook in May 2009. Using behavioral and fMRI methods, my doctoral work with Dr. Hoi-Chung Leung examined neural bases of updating and selection processes and an interaction between visual and verbal representations during working memory tasks in healthy young adults.

My research in the Jagust lab will focus on the understanding of brain aging and memory processes by using amyloid imaging and fMRI.

Papers

Specific and Nonspecific Neural Activity during Selective Processing of Visual Representations in Working Memory. (2009) Oh H, Leung HC J Cogn Neurosci. Apr 28. [Epub ahead of print] pubmed

An effect of WM load on visual search guidance: Evidence from eye movements and functional brain imaging (2008) Yang, Oh, Leung, & Zelinsky Journal of Vision, 8(6), 316a Journal of Vision

Visiting Scholars¶

Gil Rabinovici

Regularly visits from UCSF, Stanford Alum, Cubs fan!

Graduate Students¶

Linh Cat Dang

Linh is a Raclopride Queen!

Raymond Lo

Before coming to the Jagust Lab as an Epidemiology PhD student, I was a neuroepidemiology fellow mentored by Dr. Caroline Tanner at The Parkinson’s Institute.

I like to play basketball, but rarely since my son was born. Karaoke is my other expertise, though in Mandarin. One recent hobby is to search old friends on Facebook, such as classmates in elementary school.

Elizabeth Mormino

During my time in the Jagust lab, I have been researching the impact of beta-amyloid deposition in normal elderly controls (with respect to cognitive function, as well as brain structure and function). I love the color orange, and am a huge Dan Savage fan.

Presentations and Posters

Elevated Beta-amyloid deposition is related to reduced posterior cingulate glucose metabolism in normal elderly subjects (.ppt)

Memory loss in normal aging is related to hippocampal-mediated Beta-amyloid deposition(.ppt)

Ara Hrire Rostomian

My background is in Chemistry with a focus in Nuclear Physics and MR methodologies. I play the accordion and I love all kinds of methodologies including FDG and PIB PET which soon might be revealed to have more similarities than differences. I was formerly the Hamiltonian Operator in the Pines’ lab working on Wave functions and enhancing polarizations through nuclear para-spin preservation.

Staff¶

Adi Alkalay

Suzanne Baker

Suzanne swims with the sharks and will devour wimpy little men all while juggling MRI and PET scanners!

Amynta Hayenga

Amynta cooks up concoctions of neurological repute, and runs all our cognitive testing!

Cindee Madison

She codes and loves Python and Nipy! Uses old-school tricked out emacs , and remembers when the web only had text. Want to learn python?? python4science

Shawn Marks

Working on analyzing PET for a Clinical Trial

Irene Yen

Has chocolate to tame wild animals

Undergraduate Assistants¶

Neha Agarwal

Edward A. Elchico

I am a Molecular and Cell Biology - Neurobiology emphasis major. My interests include: volleyball, swimming, Glee, drawing dinosaurs, and the HUMAN BRAIN! ^__^”