Graduate Student

Alita D'Almeida is a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis and a graduate student researcher with the Chaudhari lab in the Department of Radiology. Her research is primarily in preclinical neuroimaging with projects in developing methods for analysis of MRI and PET scans in small and large animal models as well as in the development of methods to quantify imaging data.

Valerie Porter is PhD candidate working in Dr. Abhijit Chaudhari's lab and collaborating with Dr. Pamela Lein and CounterACT. She is developing automated segmentation techniques with machine learning for analyzing MRI and PET data of brain scans following organophosphate exposure.