Greg Appelbaum Lab Director Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 2004 B.A. Emory University 1995

Our Team

Greg Appelbaum
Lab Director
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine 2004
B.A. Emory University 1995

Susan Hilbig
Clinical Trials Specialist
B.S. Duke University 2014

Hannah Palmer
Clinical Trials Specialist
​B.A. Kinesiology & Integrative Physiology, Hanover College
M.S. Biomedical Sciences, Duke University

Rachel Donaldson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Neuroscience
Duke University Class of 2020
Current Project: BRAIN Initiative, EEG

Lysianne Beynel
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Laboratory of Psychology and Neurocognition (LPNC), Grenoble, France 2015
 B.A. University Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France 2010

Connor Hile
​Clinical Trials Specialist
​B.A. Neuroscience, Duke University 2018

Kelsey Rankin
Athletic Trainer
M.S. Exercise and Sports Science, UNC

Joyce Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Neuroscience 
Duke University Class of 2019
Current Project: Brain stimulation to enhance memory

Sicong (Zone) Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Florida State University, 2018
B.S. Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 2010

Courtney Crowell
Research Associate
B.S. University of Rochester 2016

Maria Naclerio
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Neuroscience
Duke University Class of 2020
Current Project: Sports Vision

Edem Amasoa
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Neuroscience 
Duke University Class of 2021
Current Project: Sports Vision Training

Graduate students doing rotations in our lab

• Lifu Deng, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program​

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Lab Alumni

Former Postdocs

• Lingling Wang (currently research scientist for General Electric, China)
• Tarik Bel-Bahar 

Former Study Coordinators

• Alex Brito (former clinical trials specialist, Medical Student, Vanderbilt University)
• Duy Nguyen (former clinical trials specialist, Resident in Family Medicine at Detroit Mercy Hospital)
• Lauren Hughes (former lab manager, completed the Nursing program at Duke University)
• Kristina Krasich (former lab manager, currently in Ph.D. program in Psychology at Notre Dame)

Former Undergraduate Students

• Wesley Lim (Masters Student, University of Texas-Houston)
• Elayna Kirsch (Research Position, Yale University)
• Eliza Gentzler (Medical Student, Wiel Cornell Medical Center)
• Floyd Wilks Jr. 
• Clara Colombatto
• Gabriela Asturias 
• Ben Ramger (DPT candidate at Duke University School of Medicine, class of 2018)
• Annie Apple (Medical Student, Vanderbilt University)
• Yvonne Lu (Medical Student, University of California, Irvine)
• Laura Holton (Graduate student in Physiology at Georgetown)
• Garland Austin (Medical Student, Emory University)
• Natasha Sakraney (Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company)
• ​Elie Shinder 
• Rajan Khanna (Medical student, Layola University, Chicago)
• Kelly Vittetoe (Intern in sport medicine, Los Angeles)

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