Current Lab Members

JIll Daniel - Principal investigator

Jill Daniel is the Gary P. Dohanich Professor of Brain Science and Professor of Psychology. She is the former and Founding Director of the Tulane Brain Institute. She received her PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience at Tulane and completed postdoctoral training in Pharmacology at LSU Health Sciences Center. Her work is currently funded by grants from the NIH through the National Institute on Aging including the Program Project Grant, Estrogens, Cardiometabolic Health, and Female Cognitive Aging, on which she serves as Project Director.

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Matthieu Maroteaux - Research Assistant Professor

Mat is a research assistant professor in the lab that is interested in mechanisms underlying memory formation through multiple approaches such as behavior, electrophysiology, immunofluorescence and biochemistry.

Alyssa Delarge - Postdoctoral researcher

Alyssa is a postdoc in the lab and is currently studying the effects of estrogen on Alzheimer’s disease progression. She is also interested in the behavioral effects of cannabinoids and how hormones can influence those effects. 

PARKER tIRRELL- Phd student

Parker is a 5th year Neuroscience PhD student and has a broad interest in how disease states and affective disorders emerge from limbic system dysregulation. He is particularly interested in understanding changes in neuromodulator and hormonal intracellular signaling in limbic structures by using a combination of brain slice patch-clamp electrophysiology, immunohistochemistry, and molecular and biochemical approaches.

Jill Flannery - Phd student

Jill is a second-year Neuroscience PhD student who graduated from Grinnell College in 2021 with a BA in Biology and English, and a concentration in Neuroscience. She has spent the last two years working in a neuroendocrinology lab at the NIH, studying GnRH neurons. She is excited to continue neuroendocrinology research at Tulane and is particularly fascinated by the effects of sex hormones in the brain (and the body) that extend beyond reproduction.

Julie Cohen- Rotating PHD Student

Julie is a first-year Neuroscience PhD student who just graduated with her B.S. in Neuroscience from Tulane in May 2024. Her research interests include Alzheimer's Disease and the cognition of aging. She is very excited to be working with Dr. Daniel and her lab.