David H Root, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor.
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Boettcher Investigator, Conan Kornetsky Fellow
Before graduate school, I worked in Dr. Yasmin Hurd’s lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City for 3 years. I worked on projects related to the effects of transgenerational THC exposure on reward-seeking behavior, including heroin self-administration. Now in graduate school, I am broadly interested in innate or ethologically relevant behavior tasks that have an element of avoid-approach conflict. I am interested in how BNST circuitry of specific cell-types to hypothalamic brain regions and VTA contribute to motivation, threat processing, and homeostatic signaling.
Annie Ly
Ph.D. Candidate, F31 Predoctoral Fellow, SfN Neuroscience Scholar, SfN Trainee Professional Development Awardee, Univ of Utah Rising Star in Neuroscience Awardee, Salk DISCOVER Awardee, Dosier/Muenzinger Predoctoral Fellowship Awardee, Beverly Sears Research Grant Awardee, NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Awardee (OSNAP)
B.a. Middlebury college, 2016
M.S. University of colorado, 2022
Contact: annie.ly at colorado.edu
Emily D Prévost
PhD Candidate, Curci Scholar, SfN Neuroscience Scholars Program Associate, Beverly Sears Research Grant Awardee
B.S. Arizona state university, 2016
m.s. universität Ulm, 2019
Contact: emily.prevost at colorado.edu
Julianne Pelletier
Professional Research Assistant
B.s. Regis University, 2023
Luma Murib
Professional Research Assistant
B.s. University of colorado denver, 2021
Giulia Amale
Professional Research Assistant
B.s. Regis University, 2024
Melissa Deming
Professional Research Assistant
B.s. indiana University, 2024
Sara Ikenberry
Professional Research Assistant
B.s. University of denver, 2024
Bodhi Rubinstein
Undergraduate Researcher, BSI Scholar, UROP Scholar
Anoushka Jani
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar
Jazmine S Hurd
Bridges to Baccalaureate Researcher
Wyatt Young
Undergraduate Researcher
Zoe K Root
Lab Supervisor, Keeper of the m&ms
Ethan A Root
In training, will record GCaMP for Peekaboos
Alumni
Dillon J McGovern, Ph.D. —> Janssen Pharmaceuticals
NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellow, SfN Trainee Professional Development Awardee, NIH Outstanding Scholar in Neuroscience Awardee (OSNAP)
Ph.D. university of colorado, 2023
B.S. Villanova University, 2018
M.S. University of colorado, 2020
David T Huynh —> Asarch Dermatology
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar
Sophie K Elvig —> National Institute on Drug Abuse
Undergraduate Researcher
Arielle Sandoval
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar, Boettcher Collaboration Scholar
Makaila Banks —> University of Rochester
Undergraduate Researcher, SMART Scholar
Kyu Ro —> University of California Davis
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar, two time UROP Scholar
Janet Lee —> University of Colorado Skaggs Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Undergraduate Researcher, two time UROP Scholar, Miramontes Arts & Sciences Scholar
Katelynn N Fegan —> Metro OB/GYN
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, David E Drutz Scholar
Koy Ecton —> Colorado Mesa University
Undergraduate Researcher
Alysabeth G Phillips —> University of California Irvine
Professional Research Assistant
B.S. University of Colorado, 2013
Jasmine Mosberger —> Washington University of St Louis
High School Researcher
Vivianne Benbrook —> University of Arizona Medical School
Postbaccalaureate Researcher
Paul Rastrelli
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar, Boettcher Collaboration Scholar
Hadley Mills —> National Institute on Drug Abuse
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar
Louis Nunez —> Oregon Health & Science University
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar
Connor McNulty —> CU Boulder Neuroscience Graduate program
Professional Research Assistant
Sarah Bates
Undergraduate Researcher
Declan Mulcahy —> Summation Bio
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar, Honors Thesis
Kristoffer Lauridsen —> CU Boulder Philosophy Graduate Program
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar
William Plantz
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, Honors Thesis
Alex Barker —> Harvard Medical School
Undergraduate Researcher, Honors Thesis
Rocio Monroy-Tello —> CU Boulder Public Health Graduate Program
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar
Steven Oakes —> CU Biophysics Department for Beckman Scholarship
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar, Boettcher Collaboration Scholar, Beckman Scholar
Shamira Gonzalez —> CU Boulder Biochemistry Program
Rotating Graduate Student
Juan Padilla La Llave —> University of Puerto Rico
Undergraduate researcher, SMART scholar
Bryce Poirot
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar, UROP Scholar, Honors Thesis
Max Garnett
Undergraduate Researcher, BSI Scholar
Bailey Weibel
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar
Gabrielle McBane —> National Jewish Health
Undergraduate Researcher
Gunnar Enserro —> University of Colorado Denver
Software Engineer
Rachel Karnosky —> National Jewish Health
Undergraduate Researcher, BSI Scholar, UROP Scholar, Honors thesis
Lucy Ward —> National Institute on Drug Abuse
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, Dopamigo, Honors thesis
Megan Heilbron
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, Honors thesis
Daniel Alas
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar, Dopamigo, Honors thesis
Annamarie Miller
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, Honors thesis
Dylan Capes
Undergraduate Researcher, Honors thesis
Max Vitti
Undergraduate Researcher
Hayden Hotchkiss
Professional Research Assistant