Many exciting opportunities are available to take part in our brain imaging projects.

I am research advisor for several post-doctoral researchers, clinical fellows, eight graduate students and many undergraduate students, as well as exchange students and research visitors from overseas. You can do a Ph.D. with me in Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Physics, or Neuroengineering (a subspecialty of BME); Master's Degrees are also offered in Biomedical Engineering (but not Neuroscience). I am also very happy to sponsor undergraduate students in the Student Research Program (SRP), Honors Program (199), UC LEADS Program, and Neuroengineering Summer Research Programs. You can do an Honors thesis with me in Neurology or in Neuroscience.

If you're interested, you can read our recent research reports here, and some very nice media articles on our work. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions! [Updated - Oct. 2008]

CURRENT RESEARCHERS & STUDENTS
Neuroscience Researchers				Four-D Team in 2003 (Neuroscience)
Andrea Klunder HIV, methamphetamine, FDDNP projects MRI/PET Scan Correlation, Brain Development	Marina Barysheva Twin Project Manager; HARDI/DTI	Christina Avedissian Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Automated Hippocampal Mapping	Sarah Madsen Brain Mapping in Alzheimer's Disease, Bipolar Illness, Hippocampal mapping, HIV/AIDS	Twin Project Team (Imaging Genetics); [picture 2] [picture 3]
Neuroscience Researchers		Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Student	Neuroscience Ph.D. Students
Suh Lee Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Tensor-Based Morphometry Mapping Brain Change in HIV/AIDS	Neelroop Parikshak Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Tensor-Based Morphometry, Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS)	Neda Jahanshad Diffusion Tensor Imaging Mapping Fiber Complexity and Asymmetry in the Brain	Lara Foland Structural and Functional Brain Mapping in Bipolar Disorder [webpage]	Jason Stein Neuroimaging Genetics Genetic Influences on Brain Connectivity High-Angular Resolution DTI
Postdoctoral Researcher	Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. Students			Biomedical Engineer
Ming-Chang Chiang, M.D., Ph.D. Divergence-Based Fluid Image Registration, Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI), HARDI, Williams syndrome, HIV/AIDS, Twins, Imaging Genetics	Agatha Lee Cortical Mapping, Fragile X Syndrome, Williams Syndrome, DTI, Tensor-Based Morphometry, Twins	Liang Zhan High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI)	Jonathan Morra MRI Segmentation, Adaptive Boosting Algorithms, Support Vector Machines, Computer Vision, ADNI	Yi-Yu Chou, M.S. Medical Image Processing, Automated Identification of Structures in MRI Scans, Alzheimer's disease, Twins
Neuroscience Ph.D. Student	Biomedical Physics Ph.D. Student	Post-Doctoral Researcher	Psychiatry Resident	Assistant Professor
April Ho Mapping Brain Change in Disease	Caroline Brun Deformation Morphometry; Fluid Image Registration; Autism	Natasha Lepore, Ph.D. Nonlinear Image Registration, Tensor Morphometry with Lie Groups Statistics, HIV/AIDS, Quantum Billiards	Alexia Leow, M.D., Ph.D. [web page] Deformable Image Registration, Tensor-Based Morphometry, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative	Liana Apostolova, M.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology Brain Mapping in Alzheimer's Disease and Those At Risk
Former Graduate Students and Researchers
Kiralee Hayashi Neuroscience Imaging in Alzheimer's Disease, Development, Methamphetamine Abuse, Depression, MCI, AIDS (now actress )	Rebecca Dutton Brain Mapping in Williams Syndrome, Epilepsy, EEG/ Hippocampal mapping, Alzheimer's Disease, HIV/AIDS (now medical student at UC San Francisco)	Alain Pitiot, Ph.D. Computer Science Computer Vision Algorithms for Automated Image Labeling (Collaboration with INRIA, France and Mirada, Oxford); Now Lecturer at University of Newcastle, UK	Christine Vidal, Ph.D. Neuroscience Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia, Autism, and Adolescent Brain Development; Now Postdoc at University of Southern California	David Herman Longitudinal Imaging in Dementia and Development; Collaboration with NIMH (Former Research Assistant; now PhD Student at USC)	Igor Yanovsky (Former Mathematics Graduate Student, working on nonlinear image registration, using novel information-theoretic models; now at Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Overseas Collaborators
Paul Rasser	Neuroscience/Mathematics	Schizophrenia (Collaboration with NISAD, Australia)
Undergraduate Students			Visiting Researchers
Michael Hong Philosophy, Medicine Mapping Hippocampal Changes in Alzheimer's Disease	Tom Nguyen Neuroscience Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, Medial Temporal Lobe Mapping	Yihong Sui Chemical Engineering UC LEADS Scholar Mapping Hippocampal and Ventricular Changes in Childhood-Onset Schizophrenia, Brain Development	Christian Gaser University of Jena, Germany Brain Mapping and Deformation-Based Morphometry
Collaborators and Co-Authors
Judy Rapoport	Jay Giedd	Ty Cannon	Nicholas Ayache
Tony Chan	Yalin Wang	David Xianfeng Gu	Peter Kochunov
Tim Cloughesy	Eydie London	Pat Johnston	Allan Reiss
Gary Small	Shing-Tung Yau

I am also currently serving on the dissertation committee for several PhD students in
Neuroscience and Biomedical Physics:

Katherine Narr	Neuroscience	Brain Imaging in Schizophrenia
Rebecca Blanton	Neuroscience	Imaging Brain Development
Dan Rubins	Biomedical Physics	Positron Emission Tomography in Small Animals (Micro-PET)
Alison Clements	Neuroscience	fMRI in Individuals at Genetic Risk for Alzheimer's Disease
Alumni
Sean Haney, M.D.	Medicine	Imaging in Brain Tumor Patients
Stephanie Dittmer	Medicine	Mapping Cortical Change in Alzheimer's Disease and Those at Genetic Risk
Jennifer Geaga	Neuroscience	Childhood Onset Schizophrenia, Autism, Clinical Trials (Collaboration with NIMH)
Nayoung Lee	Neuroengineering Exchange Scholar (Johns Hopkins)	Mapping Hippocampal Deficits in Methamphetamine Abusers
David Gravano	Neuroscience	Ventricular Anatomy in Alzheimer's Disease
Sue Han	Neuroscience	Mapping Brain Changes in Alzheimer's Disease
Yasaman Alaghband	Neuroscience	Williams syndrome, neuroimaging in disease

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