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ANNEGRET FALKNER PHD

Assistant Professor

Annegret received her PhD from Columbia University in 2012 working with Mickey Goldberg on oculomotor decision-making in primates, and worked with Dayu Lin at NYU for her postdoc examining aggressive motivation in rodents.
Email: afalkner@princeton.edu

STEFAN OLINE PHD

Associate Professional Specialist

Stefan received his PhD in 2015 from the lab of Mike Burger at Lehigh University.  He worked with Mike Halassa at NYU and MIT optimizing tools for physiology and photometry.

Email: soline@princeton.edu

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MAE GUTHMAN PHD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mae received her PhD from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in 2019 working with Molly Huntsman and Diego Restrepo on the cell-type specific control exerted by GABAergic interneurons on the microcircuitry and plasticity of the mouse basolateral amygdala. Broadly, she is interested in the role of and mechanisms underlying neuromodulatory coordination of neural circuits during social behaviors. Her postdoctoral research focuses on the role of estrogen in orchestrating the activity of neurons during various social behaviors in mice.

Email: eguthman@princeton.edu

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BARTUL MIMICA PHD

Postdoctoral Fellow 

Bartul received his PhD in 2019 from the lab of Jonathan Whitlock at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, combining e-phys with 3D tracking to study postural representation in the rat neocortex. True to his interest in ethology, he will continue his postdoctoral work exploring the midbrain circuits involved in sonic behaviors.

Email: bmimica@princeton.edu

NANCY MACK PHD

Postdoctoral Fellow 

Nancy received her PhD in 2022 from Drexel University, working with Wen-Jun Gao to study sex differences in prefrontal cortical circuits involved in social investigation through use of functional manipulation tools and fiber photometry. Nancy joined the Falkner lab for her postdoctoral work to dive further into her interests in the neural circuit computations underlying the intersection of internal states, sex-differences, and behavior. 

Email: nm7448@princeton.edu

TOMOHITO MINAKUCHI

Graduate Student

Tomohito (Tomo) completed his medical degree at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. In his medical school, he got training in molecular biology in the Siomi lab, and circuitry neuroscience in the Tanaka & Takata lab. He also worked with Dr Hideyuki Okano, performing calcium imaging of rat and marmoset cortex after graduating.

Email: tomohito - at - princeton.edu

DAKOTA BLACKMAN

Graduate Student

Dakota completed her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience at Barnard College, where she worked with Josh Gordon and Elizabeth Bauer, studying the neural circuitry and molecular mechanisms underlying anxiety. After graduating, she spent two years working as a Research Assistant at Rockefeller University with Winrich Freiwald and Eric Schmidt, with the goal of developing and applying molecular profiling techniques to projection neurons relevant to social cognition.

Email: dakotab@princeton.edu

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JORGE IRAVEDRA GARCIA

Graduate Student

Jorge completed his bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology at University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. He worked in the laboratory of Dr. Gregory Quirk researching how circuits from the prefrontal cortex to the amygdala and striatum regulate active avoidance. His graduate work currently focuses on investigating how subcortical brain networks regulate drive and reinforcement of social behaviors.
Email: jmig@princeton.edu

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DAVID ALLEN

Graduate Student 

After receiving his bachelors in behavioral neuroscience at Northeastern University, David worked in the lab of Todd Anthony to study the regulation of fear and anxiety-like behaviors in lateral septum. David is interested in developing novel computational approaches to investigate innate mouse behavior. Specifically, his thesis focuses on how mice form representations of familiar versus conspecific territories in the brain, and how social experiences shape different marking and territory-dependent behaviors.

Email: da9769@princeton.edu

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OLIVIA TIMMERMANS

Research Technician

Olivia completed her bachelor’s degree in neuroscience at Princeton, where she worked in the Falkner lab to explore the behavioral and neural mechanisms that underlie social hierarchies in groups of mice. Broadly, she is interested in social behavior and is excited to continue to investigate the relationship between neural states and social dominance.

Email: oct@princeton.edu

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