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

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

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

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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

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

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

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Joyce Wang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Neuroscience 
Duke University Class of 2019

Current Project: Brain stimulation to enhance memory

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

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

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Maria Naclerio
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Major: Neuroscience
Duke University Class of 2020

Current Project: Sports Vision

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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​

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)

Web: www.dukeoptilab.org
Email Opti Lab
Phone: 919-668-1321
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