Primary Research Team
Matia Banks Solomon PhD
Principal Investigator
Due to high email volume, there will be a delayed response if you contact Dr. Solomon directly. Please contact the research staff including graduate and undergraduate students regarding future undergraduate research opportunities.
Elizabeth Nguyen
Graduate Student
Email address: ngyuenee@mail.uc.edu
Elizabeth is currently investigating sex differences in Alzheimer's disease using various genetic mouse models.
Allie Greene
Graduate student
Email address: green3al@mail.uc.edu
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Din Selmanovic
Din loves swimming and is currently on the Varsity Swim and Dive team at UC! He enjoys watching movies, reading and learning new things! He is particularly interested in learning about the pathophysiology of Alzheimer's disease.
Marissa Maltry
Marissa is an avid reader and she is a short fiction writer in the thriller genre. She loves foreign language so much so that she speaks Spanish and Korean! She is interested in the role of stress and gonadal hormones in various diseases including depression and anxiety.
Kallia Cooper
Kallia continues to be mentored by Dr. Solomon and will occasionally work on our bioinformatics studies! I am excited to continue to mentor her as she determines her career path!
Collaborators
Lorah Dorn PhD, CPNP
Penn State University
Dr. Dorn was my mentor for my Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women Health (BIRCWH) K-12 award. She continues to be an outstanding mentor to me and now serves as one of my collaborators. Her enthusiasm for research is infectious. Our collaboration takes a translational approach (rodents and humans) towards understanding biological transitions (puberty/adolescence) as a period of vulnerability for psychopathology and various physical health problems in females across the reproductive lifespan.
Lisa Privette Vinnedge PhD
Cincinnati Children's Medical Hospital
Dr. Privette-Vinnedge and I met as BIRCWH K12 Scholars. She is a phenomenal junior investor with an incredible passion for science. Our research goal is to identify novel treatment strategies for Alzheimer's disease in males and females. We are accomplishing this goal with the use of various cell lines, genetic mouse models and humans.
High School Intern
Grace Shorter
Walnut Hills High School: Cincinnati, Ohio
Grace wants to be a veterinary neurosurgeon!
Honorary Lab Members:
Dr. Matthew Loftspring (Washington University in St. Louis)
Aynara Wulsin (MD/PhD -University of Cincinnati)
Keila Miles (PhD student- University of Cincinnati)
Former Students:
Valentina Ghisays (graduate)
Christina Estrada (graduate)
Swagata Karkare (graduate)
Dani Green
Sarah Berman
Nancy Dao
Simone Brown- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow, Oakwood University
Joshua Streicher
Andrew Birkenhauer
Nina Rokvic
Michelle Leshchinsky
Marissa Taylor
Nikolaus Balmer
Rotating Graduate Students:
Matthew Loftspring
Elizabeth Nguyen
Allie Greene