Lab Members
Meet the Bonakdarpour Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator

Borna Bonakdarpour, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology)
Undergraduate Students

Isabelle Baron
Research Assistant

Pariya Salehi
Research Assistant

Kate Vidano
Research Assistant

Jonathan Zhao
Research Assistant
Research Staff

Jordan Behn, MS
Biomedical Engineer
Research Study Coordinator

Nick Bonakdarpour-Jaberg
Digital Solutions Assistant

Grace Lee
Research Assistant

Ken Li
Neuroscience
Research Assistant

Daniel Seog
Research Study Assistant

Melanie Zhang
Post-doctoral Researcher
Collaborators

Elena Barbieri, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation



Aimee Karstens
Rush Medical Group

Marsel Mesulam, MD
Chief of Behavioral Neurology in the Department of Neurology, Ruth Dunbar Davee Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Neurology (Behavioral Neurology) and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences

Jonathan Miller, PhD
Sounds Good Choir

Sandy Miller
Sounds Good Choir

Darby Morhardt, PhD
Professor Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease
Department of Preventive Medicine


Clara Takarabe, BA
Philosopher, Violist
Music and Medicine Investigator
Clinical Music Practitioner

Sandra Weintraub, PhD, FAAN
Professor of Neuropsychology Mesulam Center for Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease
Department of Psychiatry

Jeff Wolfe, MM, MT-BC
Neurologic Music Therapist
Music and Medicine Investigator
Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Therapy through the Arts

Alumni

Anisha Basu, MS
Research Assistant
Biomedical Engineer

Hernando Fereira, BS
Research Assistant
Computational Neuroscientist

Kyla Guillaume, BS
Research Assistant
Neuroscience

Daniel Huang, BA
Medical Student

Rhiana Schafer
Music and Medicine Investigator
Research Project Coordinator, Mesulam Center, Northwestern University

Jackie Takarabe
Research Assistant

Allan Wang
Graduate Student
Stanford University