DUBOUE LAB
PrincipaI Investigator
Erik Duboué
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Erik did his Bachelors degrees at Tulane University and then his PhD at NYU with Richard Borowsky. He then worked with Marnie Halpern at the Carnegie Institution for Science before starting his lab at FAU in 2017.
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Phone: (561) 799-8054
Email: eduboue@fau.edu
Research staff
Caylla Martin​
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I am the Lab manager for the Duboue lab. I maintain the A. mexicanus and Danio stocks while coordinating the research needs the lab.
Email: cayllamartin2018@fau.edu
Graduate Students
Peter Igwilo​
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I'm a Masters student using light sheet microscopy to generate a adult brain atlas for Astyanax, and assess anatomical differences between surface and cave morphs
Email: pigwilo2019@fau.edu
Undergraduate Students
Naresh Padmanaban
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Using the Astyanax model to examine neuronal differences driving adaptive feeding states. I am also combining these with novel machine learning approaches for scoring behavior
Email: npadmanaban2020@fau.edu
Pranav Jambulingam
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As a URISE scholar, I am working on a collaborative study with the Fontenas Lab (FAU) to assess how glia are altered in the evoluiton of the brain. We are using HCR to assess expression and abundance of glial subtypes in the cave and surface fish brain.
Email: pjambulingam2022@fau.edu
Keisha Bansal​
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As a URISE scholar, I am working to characterize feeding differences in the brain of Astyanax cave and surface fish. My work focuses on brain anatomy and neural activity
Email: kbansal2023@fau.edu
Gwendolyn Murray​
I am looking at how spontaneous activity changes and refines over development to form functional connected ciurcuits, and how these developmental patterns are altered by early life stress
Email: gmurray2021@fau.edu
Kristina Boutros
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I am working in the Duboue lab to understand how early life stress alteres the developmental of the brain. We are using light sheet microscopy and adult brain atlases for zebrafish.
Email: kboutros2022@fau.edu
Aiden Geleta
I am an undergraduate student looking to understand how early life stress alters the development of the vertebrate brain. My work focuses on larval brain anatomy and neural activity.
Email: ageleta2022@fau.edu
Kimberly Schweiger
I am working on computational appraoches for quantifying cell types across the vertebrate brain in Danio and Astyanax.
Email: kschweiger2021@fau.edu
Serena Amro Gazze​
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I am an FAU High Student work to define anatomical modules in a developing Astyanax adult brain atlas.
Email: samrogazze2022@fau.edu
Research pawentists
Nena Duboué-Rodriguez
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Nena is a ten year old Amstaff/Boxer mix interested in addictive qualities of Milk Bones. When she isn't at daycare, she's eating Milk Bones.
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Email: AmStaffNena@gmail.com
Coco Duboué-Rodriguez
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Coco is a 7-month old Amstaff mix. When not at daycare, she enjoys chasing squirrels and playing with her sister.
Laboratory alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
• Dr. Jacqueline Chin – Postdoc (Currently Senior Scientist in Michael Meaney’s Lab, Singapore)
• Dr. Robert Kozol – Postdoc (Currently Assistant Professor at St. John’s University)
• Dr. Itzel Sifuentes-Romero – Postdoc (Currently Research Scientist, Iowa State)
Graduate Students (PhD and Masters)
• Cody Loomis – Graduate Student (Currently in McLean Bolton’s Lab, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience)
• Ji-Heon “John” Han – PhD Student
• Anders Yuiska – Master’s Student
• Alexandra Paz – PhD Student
• Bethany O’Donnell – PhD Student
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Technicians
• Yasmeen Erritouni
• Bernadeth Tolentino - Gradaute Student at University of Southern California
• Peter Lewis - Research Fellow at OLAW
• Paloma Amaral - University of Chicago
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Undergraduate Students
• Courtney Olive – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Claude Gassant – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Daniel Whu – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Steven Raftopoulos – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Austin Raftopoulos – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Lydia Albert – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Anh Phan – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Shirley Mendina-Trenche – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Charles Shi – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student (MPHP)
• Leonardo Peon Chang – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student (Presented at ABRCMS Conference)
• Rina Raad – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Princess Abdul-Akbar – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Kelly-Anne Peart – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Alexia Cree-Newman – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Ana Chacon – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student (OURI Grant awarded)
• Ghabrielle Alemedia – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Samantha Zaninelli – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student (Barry Goldwater Recipient)
• Lina Cristisimo – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Julianna Booth – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student
• Jannatul Begum – Wilkes Honors College Undergraduate Student (OURI Grant awarded)