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Lex Kravitz

Meaghan Creed

Meaghan Creed

 Associate Professor

Lex is interested in basal ganglia function in both normal and disease states.  He is also a proponent of open-source hardware for neuroscience research.

alexxai@email.wustl.edu

Meaghan Creed

Meaghan Creed

Meaghan Creed

 Scientific Collaborator 

 Dr. Meaghan Creed is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anesthesiology, and her lab investigates synaptic plasticity in the basal ganglia.  She is interested in understanding mechanisms underlying synaptic plasticity, and leveraging these mechanisms to treat psychiatric disease.  meaghan.creed@wustl.edu 

Chris Stander

Meaghan Creed

Chris Stander

 

Lab Supervisor 

Chris has chosen to focus her energies on lab management, while maintaining an interest in cell biology.  When not tending to the needs of the lab, Chris spends time with her dogs, maintaining her house and volunteering at a local animal shelter.  standerm@wustl.edu 

Bridget Matikainen-Ankney

Bridget Matikainen-Ankney

Bridget Matikainen-Ankney

 

Postdoctoral fellow
Bridget is interested in how obesity alters neural connectivity and associated behaviors in a lasting way. She is currently investigating the effect of high-fat diet exposure on physical activity, motivation, and corticoaccumbal synaptic plasticity.
bmatikainen@gmail.com 

Alex Legaria

Bridget Matikainen-Ankney

Bridget Matikainen-Ankney

Neuroscience Graduate Student studying how dopamine interacts with calcium in the striatum to control decision making and learning in mice.

alegariamacal@wustl.edu

Justin Wang

Bridget Matikainen-Ankney

Justin Wang

 Neuroscience Graduate Student 

Justin is broadly interested in understanding caloric regulation, and how specific nutrients alter food intake and body weight regulation in mice.

wangjg@wustl.edu

Yiyan Pan

Wash U undergraduate student working on understanding how effort alters diet and obesity in mice 

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