Leinani Hession

Leinani Hession

Leinani is a research intern who graduated from New College of Florida in 2019. The focus of her undergraduate studies was Biology and Computer Science, and she wrote a senior thesis on the intersection of AI and creativity from an embodied, dynamical systems...
Jennifer Wright

Jennifer Wright

Jennifer Wright comes from a background in business and event management, assisting with the administrative tasks of the Kumar Lab. A native to the Bar Harbor area, she joined The Jackson Laboratory staff in January 2018 and has enjoyed watching the amazing growth and...
Tionna Ouellette

Tionna Ouellette

Tionna is a predoctoral candidate in the neuroscience program collaboration between Tufts University and The Jackson Laboratory. After completion of a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of Maine, she worked with Dr. Simon John on projects that aim to understand...
Megan Darrell

Megan Darrell

Megan is a rising senior at Wheaton College (MA), studying bioinformatics with a minor in chemistry and a concentration in mathematics. She is joining the lab as a member of the 2019 Summer Student Program and will be conducting social interaction and gait analysis...
Janine Wotton, PhD

Janine Wotton, PhD

Janine is a computational scientist. She is developing methods to integrate mouse behavior data over long periods of time.
Avery Lopez

Avery Lopez

Avery is a rising junior at Middlebury College, studying Neuroscience with a minor in Computer Science (2018). This summer (2019) as an SSP, she is piloting a test to investigate the effect of a single gene (TMOD2) deletion on reward and learning behaviors....