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. 2CI Neurogenomics Fellow whose project is focused on the role of protein ubiquitination in the regulation of microglia function. Link
Dr. Angela Mabb, Principal Investigator
Associate Professor of Neuroscience,Georgia State University
Director, Center for Neuromics and 2CI Neurogenomics Fellows Program
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 and 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 study the role of ubiquitination in neurological function and 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. Molecular Basis of Disease Fellow whose project is focused on tau. Link
Harshita Agarwal, Neuroscience Undergraduate Student
Harshita is an undergraduate whose research is focused on developing analysis tools to visualize microglia.
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 conducting MRI-based studies in mouse models of neurodegenerative disease. While not in the lab, Zack likes to chase big waves as an avid surfer. Link
Wendy Wang, Biology Undergraduate Student
Wendy is an undergraduate whose research is focused on data analysis of animal behaviors.