LEAD MOTIVATOR

VICTORIA ABRAIRA, PhD
​Victoria received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Southern California and her graduate degree in Neuroscience from Harvard University. As a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins/Harvard Medical School she set out to understand the cellular and synaptic substrates underlying innocuous touch perception by elucidating the functional organization of sensory neurons in mouse hairy skin and uncovering the neural codes of touch perception in the spinal cord dorsal horn. 
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TECHNICAL TEAM

 YURDIANA HERNANDEZ, MD
Yurdiana Hernandez - an animal genotyping expert and an MD - serves as our lab manager. Wielding unmatched low genotyping error rates and extensive animal protocol prowess, she provides the framework of our lab's experimentation: proper animal husbandry and identification for hundreds of animals weekly. Moreover, Yurdiana manages lab documentation and compliance - keeping our mice and researchers in tip top shape.
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DHAIVAT NAIK
Dhaivat is a Data Science grad student working as the Administrative Assistant for the Lab. Having worked as a Data Scientist before, he streamlined databases and now streamlines emails and meetings for Dr. Abraira. Dhaivat is passionate about data engineering and wants to pursue a career in that field; in his spare time, he enjoys working out and has been trying to reacquire his lost reading habits!
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AN ENTIRE CENTER

Our lab is immersed in the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, a state-of-the-art research center fully equipped and staffed toward cutting-edge spinal cord circuit research.