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
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
B.S. Arizona state university, 2016
m.s. universität Ulm, 2019
Contact: emily.prevost at colorado.edu
Hayden Hotchkiss
Professional Research Assistant
B.A. University of Puget sound, 2022
Julianne Pelletier
Professional Research Assistant
B.s. Regis University, 2023
Bodhi Rubinstein
Undergraduate Researcher, BSI Scholar
Rachel Karnosky
Undergraduate Researcher, BSI Scholar, UROP Scholar
Lucy Ward
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, Dopamigo
Megan Heilbron
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar
Daniel Alas
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar, Dopamigo
Anoushka Jani
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar
Annamarie Miller
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar
Dylan Capes
Undergraduate Researcher
Max Vitti
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
Ph.D. university of colorado, 2023
B.S. Villanova University, 2018
M.S. University of colorado, 2020
David T Huynh
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar —> Asarch Dermatology
Sophie K Elvig
Undergraduate Researcher —> National Institute on Drug Abuse
Arielle Sandoval
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar, Boettcher Collaboration Scholar
Makaila Banks
Undergraduate Researcher, SMART Scholar —> University of Rochester
Kyu Ro
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar, two time UROP Scholar —> University of California Davis
Janet Lee
Undergraduate Researcher, two time UROP Scholar, Miramontes Arts & Sciences Scholar —> University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Katelynn N Fegan
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, David E Drutz Scholar —> Metro OB/GYN
Koy Ecton
Undergraduate Researcher —> Colorado Mesa University
Alysabeth G Phillips
Professional Research Assistant —> University of California Irvine
B.S. University of Colorado, 2013
Jasmine Mosberger
High School Researcher —-> Washington University of St Louis
Vivianne Benbrook
Postbaccalaureate Researcher —> University of Arizona Medical School
Paul Rastrelli
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar, Boettcher Collaboration Scholar
Hadley Mills
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar —> National Institute on Drug Abuse
Louis Nunez
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar —> Oregon Health & Science University
Connor McNulty
Professional Research Assistant —> CU Boulder Neuroscience Graduate program
Sarah Bates
Undergraduate Researcher
Declan Mulcahy
Undergraduate Researcher, Biological Sciences Initiative Scholar, Honors Thesis —> Summation Bio
Kristoffer Lauridsen
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar —> CU Boulder Philosophy Graduate Program
William Plantz
Undergraduate Researcher, UROP Scholar, Honors Thesis —> World traveling
Alex Barker
Undergraduate Researcher, Honors Thesis —> Harvard Medical School
Rocio Monroy-Tello
Undergraduate Researcher, McNair Scholar —> CU Boulder Public Health Graduate Program
Steven Oakes
Undergraduate Researcher, Boettcher Scholar, Boettcher Collaboration Scholar, Beckman Scholar —> CU Biophysics Department for Beckman Scholarship
Shamira Gonzalez
Rotating Graduate Student —> CU Boulder Biochemistry Program
Juan Padilla La Llave
Undergraduate researcher, SMART scholar —> University of Puerto Rico
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
Undergraduate Researcher
Gunnar Enserro —> University of Colorado Denver
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