Lab Members
Meet the Disterhoft Lab members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator
John Disterhoft, PhD
Ernest J. & Hattie H. Magerstadt Memorial Research Professor of Physiology
Former Director of Northwestern University Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program (NUIN)
Former Editor of Behavioral Neuroscience
312-503-7982
PhD: Fordham University, Psychology (1971)
Research Professor
Craig Weiss, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Neuroscience
Director of the Northwestern University Behavioral Phenotyping Core (NUBPC)
312-503-0529
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Student
Alumni
Graduate Students
- Maria Carillo, PhD - Chief Science Officer, Alzheimer’s Association, Chicago, IL
- Luke Flores, PhD - Director, BioExcel and ChemExcel Program, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Amy Gamelli, PhD - Associate Director, US Medical Review, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, IL
- Shoai Hattori, PhD - Medical Strategist, Klick, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Leslie Sargent Jones, PhD - Professor, Department of Biology, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC (Retired)
- Catherine C. Kaczorowski, PhD - Professor, Evnin Family Chair in Alzheimer’s Research, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
- Martha-Gracia Knuttinen, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Phoenix, AZ
- Nina Kraus, PhD - Hugh Knowles Professor, Communication Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
- Michelle Kronforst-Collins, PhD - Director, Patient and Investigator Relations, Development Operations at AbbVie, AbbVie Inc, North Chicago, IL
- Carmen Lin, PhD - NUIN, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Elizabeth F. Matthews, PhD - Senior Research Scientist, Duke University, Durham, NC
- Bridget McKay, PhD - AP Biology Teacher, Cascade High School, Everett, WA
- Lisa Miller, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University, Columbus
- James R. Moyer, Jr., PhD - Associate Dean, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- Felix Nunez-Santana, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Matthew Oh, PhD - Scientific Review Officer, Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
- John M. Power, PhD - Senior Lecturer, Translational Neuroscience Facility & Department of Physiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
- Amy Rapp, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Matthew P. Schroeder, PhD - Scientific Consultant, Kolabtree & Data Scientist, All Elite Wrestling
- Eugenie Suter, MD, PhD - Principal Medical Director, Neuroscience and Rare Diseases, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Basel, Switzerland
- Rebekah Ward, PhD - Psychology Instructor, Central Oregon Community College, Bend, OR
- Aldis Weible, PhD - Senior Research Associate, Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
- Craig Weiss, PhD - Research Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Wendy Wu, PhD - Electrophysiologist/Research Pharmacologist, Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring, MD
- Xiao-Wen Yu, PhD - Research Fellow, University of Otaga, Dunedin, Otaga, New Zealand
Post Baccalaureate Fellows
- Abigail Galvez - Graduate Student, Department of Neuroscience, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
- Leah Vinson - Graduate Student, Department of Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Joel P. Black, PhD - Systems Analyst, Symantec
- Daniel M. Curlik II, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, York College of Pennsylvania, York
- Richard A. Deyo, PhD - Professor, Department of Psychology, Winona State University, MN
- Roberto Galvez, PhD - Director, Phase 1, Carle Illinois College of Medicine & Teaching Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana
- Maarten de Jonge, PhD - Management, Bayer Schering Pharma, Berlin, Germany
- Kyle Kelly, PhD - Medical Student, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Matthew D. McEchron, PhD - Director, Scholarly Projects Professor, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Phoenix
- Masuo Ohno, PhD - Center for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY
- Kevin Quinn, PhD - Acting Director of the Office of Science Policy, Planning and Communications, National Institute of Mental Health (Retired)
- Fernando A. Oliveira, PhD - Associate Professor, Department of Biological Science, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) Diadema – São Paulo, Brazil
- Zhenia Sametsky, PhD - Director, Nature Trait LLC, Des Plaines, IL
- Dina Simkin, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow - The Ken & Ruth Davee Department of Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
- Claudia B. Spaeni, PhD - Sales and Scientific Advisor/qPCR Product Specialist, Anawa Clinisciences Group, Zurich, Switzerland
- L.T. Thompson III, PhD - Associate Professor, Behavioral & Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
- Eddy A. Van der Zee, PhD - Professor, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Natividad Ybarra III, PhD - Test Development Manager, Pearson North America, San Antonio, TX
- Taejib Yoon, PhD - Behavioral Neuroscientist, Chicago, IL
Recent Research Staff
- Mary J. Kondo
- Cheima Hicheri
- Amelia Buell