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
Peter Lewis
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I am the Research Program Coordinator for the FAU Fish Trilab. I maintain the A. mexicanus and Danio stocks while coordinating the research needs of the Duboue, Kowalko, and Keene labs.
Phone: (561) 799-8069
Email: lewisp@fau.edu
Bernadeth Toletntino​
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Phone: (561) 799-8069
Email:
Arthur Loppato​
Phone: (561) 799-8069
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Postdoctoral fellows
Robert Kozel
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Rob is a neuroscientist that trained in the lab of Julia Dallman at the University of Miami. Currently, he is discovering neural circuit changes underlying differences in behavior between surface and cave forms of Astyanax.
Phone: 234 567 6789
Email: rkozol@fau.edu
Graduate Students
John Ji Heon Han​
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I'm studying how the genetics of different A. Mexicanus populations shape variations in behavior through variations in receptor functions.
Phone: (561) 799-8069
Email: jhan2020@fau.edu
Allison Walsh​
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Phone: (561) 799-8069
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Undergraduate Students
Anders Yuiska
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Investigating the effects of early life trauma and adult predisposition to substance abuse in zebrafish through examining of dopaminergic signaling. Creation of a brain atlas for the Mexican cavefish - with my mentor James Jaggard (Keene Lab)
Phone: (561) 799-8069
Email: ayuiska2017@fau.edu
Shoshanah Marcus​
Shoshanah has been analyzing and annotating the
behaviors of A. mexicanus to develop different neural networks that predict behavioral patterns. She is collaborating
on this project with her colleague, Aden Eagle.
Phone: (561) 799-8069
Email: Shoshanah.marcus@gmail.com
Mary Forrest​
I am an undergraduate student from the Boca Raton Campus interested in behavioral neuroscience and anxiety. I am currently working with Robert Kozel on his research examining neural circuits in surface and cavefish.
Phone: (561) 799-8069
Email: ayuiska2017@fau.edu
Research pawentists
Nena Duboué-Rodriguez
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Nena is a four 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
Paloma Amaral, Lab Manager
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Courtney Olive, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
Claude Gassant, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
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Daniel Whu, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
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Steven Raftopoulos, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
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Austin Raftopoulos, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
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Lydia Albert, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
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Anh Phan, Wilkes Honors College undergraduate student
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Cody Loomis, graduate student (Currently in McLean Bolton's lab, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neurosience)
Yasmeen Erritouni, Technition (Currently Grad Student of University of Washington)
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Jacqueline Chin, Postdoc (Currently in Michael Meaney's Lab)
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