Lab Members
Meet team members in the Prakriya Lab at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Contact us about our work or future opportunities.
Principal Investigator
Murali Prakriya, PhD
Magerstadt Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)
(Allergy and Immunology)
Research Professor
Megumi Yamashita, PhD, DDS
Research Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests: CRAC channel gating, pharmacology, neurophysiology
Postdoctoral Fellow
Aashutosh Shetti, PhD
Graduate Students
Kaitlyn DeMeulenaere
DGP Student
Research Interests: microglia, neuropathic pain, inflammation behavioral analysis
Sé Ferrell
DGP Student
Research Interests: structure-function of Orai channels, biophysics, channel gating
Vernon Kennedy
MSTP Student
Research Interests: choroid plexus, calcium signaling, inflammation, brain disease
Alex Lifton
NUIN Student
Research Interests: astrocytes, gliotransmitter release, adrenergic signaling, cognition
Leo Pinzón Avendaño
NUIN Student
Research Interests: CRAC channel gating mechanisms, calcium-dependent inactivation, structural mechanisms