People in the Lab
Matt Rowan, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Viktor J. Oláh, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Viktor is a postdoctoral researcher at Emory. He completed his doctoral training in Hungary at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, where he studied subcellular excitability of hippocampal CCK-expressing interneurons and the connection between the dentate gyrus and the CA3 region. He mainly employs ex vivo brain slice patch clamp electrophysiology and computational modeling to probe neuronal functions. Currently, he is working on exploring the dendritic nonlinearities of cortical layer 2/3 pyramidal cells using both ex vivo and in vivo electrophysiology, and machine learning.
Yeeny Yook, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Yenny joined the Rowan Lab at Emory University as a postdoctoral researcher after earning her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. During her graduate studies, she uncovered molecular mechanisms by which amyloid-beta drives neuronal hyperexcitability in early-stage Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Additionally, she explored the impact of cellular stress on neuronal activity across several neurological disorders, including autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Her current research focuses on understanding the interplay between synaptopathy and tau pathology in the progression of AD, using a combination of in vitro and ex vivo approaches.
Emmie Banks
Neuroscience Ph.D. Student
Emmie is a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Emory. She previously ran large clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) and researched in vivo biomarkers in AD patients using PET imaging. In her graduate research, she is now investigating mechanisms of cellular dysfunction in early-stage Alzheimer's disease, with a focus on the relationship between circuit hyperexcitability and the development of tau pathology. Outside of the lab, Emmie enjoys running, weightlifting, and working with the graduate student-worker union.
Anna Eaton
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Anna is an undergraduate student in The Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory. She has been with the Rowan Lab for a year now, and is interested in furthering her understanding of neuroscience applications in biomedical engineering. Outside of research, Anna enjoys painting, weightlifting, running, reading, and has previously held a Co-Op position with Avanos Medical.
Alumni
Annie Goettemoeller
Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate
Annie was a Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program at Emory. In her graduate research, she combined cell-type specific manipulation methods with patch-clamp electrophysiology and proteomics to understand mechanisms of cellular dysfunction in early-stage Alzheimer's disease.
Current Location: Stanford; Postdoc
Sneha Malepati
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sneha worked in the lab as a 4th year undergraduate student at Emory studying Neuroscience & Behavioral Biology, and Physics.
Current location: Yale; Post Bacc