The Team

Connor Wander is a third year PhD Candidate in the Pharmacology Department at UNC Chapel Hill.  As a co-mentored student between the Cohen and Song Labs at UNC, Connor studies GABAergic neural networks in Alzheimer’s Disease.  Other scientific interests include the interactions between the environment, genetics, and behavior in mood disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.  Connor and Julian founded SFS with the idea of connecting people directly with scientists.

Outside of the lab, Connor enjoys hobbies such as graphic design, gaming, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, paintball and caring for his bearded dragon and Madagascar Giant Day geckos.  Connor also manages the Cohen lab website and a Giant day Gecko care blog. 

Education

B.S. In Biology and Biochemistry — Chemistry Minor

Virginia Tech 2014

Connor Wander’s Publications

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Julian Dallmeier is currently a Neuroscience Master student at the University of Navarra in Spain. He is completing his thesis at the CIMA and the Clinica de Navarra in Neurophysiology. He did his undergrad in Exercise Science and Physiology and has an avid passion for maximizing physical and mental performance. Julian is a polyglot whose research interests’ span from fields related to lifehacking (Nootropics, memory, physical performance) to health related categories such as concussions and the gut-brain axis.

Education

Exercise Science and Physiology at the University of South Carloina

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Giulia is our Manager of Science communication and she deals with public relations and
general management of social media. She completed her Master in Marketing in Spain and her
Bachelor degree in Communication at the University of Padua, Italy. Giulia has a strong cross-
cultural adaptation and loves challenges. Her dream is, one day, to work in a project to save
the oceans from plastic.

Jake Knight is a writer with a wide range of interests including science, business, history, science fiction and fantasy, metaphysics, religion, and the Bible. His continuing study of life and its interconnections have taken him from explorations in the woods to travel to other countries to spiritual and inward searching. Along the way, he received his undergraduate degree in commerce and a minor in religious studies from the University of Virginia, and took classes in theology and Italian at other institutions. Of most importance to him, though, is not his academic studies but his observation of and participation in life.

His particular idea is this: that all of life connects and is interdependent. That all those of earnest desire and belief in good and for good are looking at/ entering the same house by different entrances.

This includes science. He is keenly interested in the discoveries and perspectives science brings to a fuller understanding, and experience of, life. Especially science having to do with neurology and perception. His job on the team is to ask questions, and help make the science understandable to the non-formally science trained.

Books

7 Ways to Think and Feel Better

www.amazon.com/dp/B00L7CSV38

Deciding What You Want

www.amazon.com/dp/B00JLT2EXC

Website

www.LukeyoutheU.com

Namisha is a first year undergraduate student at UNC Chapel Hill who is currently Pre-Business. She is interested in marketing and finance, but also loves learning about science, specifically neuroscience. She hopes to someday work at Google headquarters. Outside of class, she enjoys watching Greys Anatomy and being with friends and family.

Elizabeth Coletti is a first year student at UNC Chapel Hill where she is majoring in Chemistry and English.  She enjoys studying science to learn about how the world works.  She is also interested in publishing and science communication.  Her hobbies include reading, writing, running, and subconsciously editing everything she sees.