Welcome to the Mabb Lab!
Nial Beaton, Neuroscience Institute Graduate Student
Nial is a second year Neuroscience Ph.D. student. His project in the lab involves investigating Cerebrovasculature in neurodegenerative disorders, such as Gordon Holmes syndrome. Nial's hobbies include listening to music and perfumery. Link
Dhanya Pyaram, Neuroscience Institute Graduate Student
Dhanya is a fourth year Neuroscience Ph.D. student whose project is focused on the role of protein ubiquitination in the regulation of microglia function. Link
Dr. Angela Mabb, Principal Investigator
Angela "Angie" Mabb earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2007 in Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology. She then became a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neurobiology Department at Duke University in the laboratory of Dr. Michael D. Ehlers. From there, she continued her postdoctoral training in the Department of Cell Biology and Physiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill in the laboratories of Dr. Ben Philpot and Dr. Mark Zylka. Angela's background is strongly rooted in Molecular Biology. The goal of her lab is to marry modern molecular biology techniques with Neuroscience. The main focus of her lab is to study how ubiquitin-dependent pathways mediate cognition and how deficiencies in these pathways cause neurological disease.
Jahin Zashim, Neuroscience Undergraduate Student
Jahin is an undergraduate whose research is focused on tau.
Wei Wei, Postdoctoral Fellow
Wei Wei received her Ph.D. degree in Immunology from South Medical University, China in 2013 where her project was focused on dysfunctional presynaptic regulation of striatal medium spiny neurons in mouse models of Parkinson’s disease. She then became a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Physiology at the University of Tennessee working on neural mechanisms driving food intake in the obese. She was particularly focused on how diet and body weight affect excitability of neuron populations responsible for food intake. With Dr. Mabb, she integrates electrophysiology, optogenetic, and molecular biology techniques to understand pathways associated with neurological dysfunction.
Derrick Worthy, Biology Undergraduate Student
Derrick is a UAP undergraduate in the honors program. Derrick's project is focused on correlations between brain structure and motor function.
Ashiya Momin, Neuroscience MS Student
Ashiya is a first year MS student whose project is focused on proteasome function and aging.
Devansh Asati, Neuroscience Institute Graduate Student
Devansh is a second year Neuroscience Ph.D. student whose project is focused on tau. Link
Wendy Wang, Biology Undergraduate Student
Wendy is an undergraduate whose research is focused on data analysis of animal behaviors.
Zachary (Zack) Allen, Research Associate I
After almost ten years as a commercial fisherman and boat captain in Virginia Beach, VA., Zack jumped ship to pursue his bachelor’s degree at Georgia State. As a recent graduate of GSU’s Neuroscience Institute, Zack remains passionate about research. While his passion is mostly related to cognitive and behavioral modalities, all fields of neuroscience are of interest to him. Zack is currently taking time to expand his experience and knowledge in the laboratory setting before continuing on to graduate school to pursue his Ph.D. While not in the lab, Zack likes to chase big waves as an avid surfer. Link
Bianca Parra, Temp hire
Bianca's project is focused on optimizing methods to image neural activity in awake behaving animals while they are performing spatial and reversal learning tasks. Link