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SHANE R. CRANDALL, PH.D.


Assistant Professor


Shane joined the faculty at Michigan State University in 2018.  He received his B.A. in Neuroscience from Boston University. Before graduate school, he worked as a research assistant in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota. Shane received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining MSU, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. 


BPS 2197 | 517-884-5055 | cranda86@msu.edu | Curriculum Vitae

LEA RATZ


Lab Manager and Research Assistant


Lea joined the lab as a lab manager and research assistant in September of 2023. She received her B.S. in Biological Engineering with a minor in Biomedical Engineering from Montana State University


BPS 2105 | 517-884-5011 | ratzmega@msu.edu

KELLY E. BONEKAMP


Ph.D. Student - MCIP Program


Kelly joined the lab as a graduate student in 2022. She received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Michigan State University. 


BPS 2105 | 517-884-5011 | bonekam1@msu.edu

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GRANT GILLIE

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Ph.D. Student - MCIP Program


Grant joined the lab as a graduate student in 2024. He received a B.S. in Neuroscience from Michigan State University. 


BPS 2105 | 517-884-5011 | gilliegr@msu.edu

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MYA SEBEK


Undergraduate Student

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Mya joined the lab as an undergraduate student in 2022. She is interested in how abnormal communication in the brain results in certain neurological disorders. 


BPS 2105 | 517-884-5011 | sebekmya@msu.edu

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VICTORIA SOLT


Undergraduate Student

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Victoria joined the lab as an undergraduate student in 2023. She participates in the Professorial Assistantship program, which supports her through the Honors College.


BPS 2105 | 517-884-5011 | soltvict@msu.edu 

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LINGXI XIONG


DO Student

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Lingxi joined the lab as part of the College of Osteopathic Medicine's Pre-clerkship research program. She is interested in utilizing optogenetics to understand long-range forebrain communication. 


BPS 2105 | 517-884-5011 | xiongli2@msu.edu

ALUMNI

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Postdoctoral Associates

  • Hye-Hyun Kim | Postdoc (2020-2022)​

  • Suryadeep Dash | Postdoc (2019-2021)

    • Assistant Professor, Siksha 'O' Anusandhan University, India

 

Technical/Research associates

  • Dawn Autio | Research Assistant (2018-2023)

    • Retired​

  • Grant Gillie | Research Assistant (2022-2023)

    • Ph.D. student, Michigan State University​

  • Jenna Layman | Research Assistant (2020-2021)

    • M.S. student, The University of Tennesee, Knoxville​

    • ​Ph.D. student, Wayne State University

  • Kelly E. Bonekamp | Research Assistant (2019-2020)

    • ​Ph.D. student, Michigan State University

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Graduate Students

  • Luis E. Martinetti | PhD Student (2018-2024)

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Medical Students

  • Jacob Schoener | COM D.O. Candidate (2022-2023)

  • Erin Day | COM D.O. Candidate (2022)

  • Abby Rachor | COM D.O. Candidate (2021-2022)

  • Jacob Ackermann | COM D.O. Candidate (2021)

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Undergraduates

  • Lizzie Le | Undergraduate Student (2023)

  • Tryton Keller | Undergraduate Student (2021-2023)

    • ​​Internship Cardiology

  • Claire Jones | Undergraduate Student (2020-2022)

    • ​NIH Postbaccaureate Intramural Research Training Program

  • Breandan Martin | Undergraduate Student (2021)

  • Gokul Murali | Undergraduate Student (2021)

    • ​Assistant Instructor at Michigan State University

  • Dana Simon | Undergraduate Student (2019)

    • D.O Candidate, Michigan State University​

  • Lalitha Karchalla | Undergraduate Student (2019)

    • ​Ph.D.l Student at Wake Forest University

  • Neil Garg | Undergraduate Student (2019)

  • Kelly E. Bonekamp | Undergraduate Student (2018-2019)

    • ​Ph.D. student, Michigan State University​

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