Lead

Abhijit J Chaudhari, PhD

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Dr. Chaudhari is a Professor of Radiology in the School of Medicine. He directs the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging at UC Davis, which provides researchers with a range of imaging modalities that include MRI, PET, SPECT, CT, ultrasound, and optical imaging in both preclinical and clinical settings. He has helped develop novel medical imaging techniques for assessing neurological disease.

Co-Lead

Brad A Hobson, PhD

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Dr. Brad Hobson is a Research Project Scientist at the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging at UC Davis. His research with the CounterACT program focuses on investigating the long term neurological consequences of acute organophosphate (OP) intoxication using in vivo imaging.

Consultant

Donald A Bruun, BS

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Donald Bruun is an Academic Program Management Officer and Lab Manager in the Department of Molecular Biosciences. Donald has focused his research on investigating novel neuroprotectants following acute exposures to organophosphates. Among his many lab skills, he has expertise in histological analyses, microscopic image acquisition, and image analysis of the brain.  

Joel Garbow, PhD

  • Consultant
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Dr. Garbow is a Professor of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He is an expert in MRI and spectroscopy methodology, including extensive preclinical MRI studies of the brain.

Graduate Student

Alita D'Almeida, BE

  • Graduate Student
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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, BS

  • Graduate Student
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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.

Professional Researcher

Sydney Huddleston, MS

  • Imaging Research Associate Scientist
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Sydney Huddleston is an Imaging Research Associate at the Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging at UC Davis. She is a practiced animal technologist with a background in biomedical research, and she assists the CounterACT program with MRI and PET acquisition and analysis.