MacLean Lab

Members of the MacLean Lab

Jason MacLean, Ph.D.

Jason MacLean, Ph.D.

Principle Investigator

Professor of Neurobiology
Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience
Neuroscience Institute
Institute for Biophysical Dynamics

Research and Scholarly Interests: Neocortex, Graph Theory, Local Circuitry, Machine Learning, Motor Cortex, Somatosensory Cortex, Visual Cortex

e-mail: jmaclean “at” uchicago “dot” edu

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Elizabeth de Laittre

Elizabeth de Laittre

Graduate Student - Computational Neuroscience

Joined 2018

Studying the role of recurrence in the network topology dynamics of learning cortex over time.

Gabriella Wheeler Fox

Gabriella Wheeler Fox

Graduate Student - Computational Neuroscience

Joined 2021

Applying graph-theoretic tools to understand the role of inhibition in motor learning.

Hal Rockwell

Hal Rockwell

Graduate Student - Computational Neuroscience

Joined 2021

Neal Tsai

Neal Tsai

Graduate Student - Computer Science

Joined 2023

Penelope Toll

Penelope Toll

Undergraduate - Neuroscience, Classics

Joined 2022

Maryam Contractor

Undergraduate - Mathematics, Data Science

Joined 2023

Jared Montney

Jared Montney

Undergraduate - Physics

Joined 2023

Hadley Groom

Undergraduate - Data Science

Joined 2023

Charlotte Clulow

Undergraduate - Neuroscience

Joined 2023

MacLean Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Laurie Lambot, PhD

Lab Member 2018-2022

Audrey Sederberg, PhD

Lab Member 2011-2015

Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience University of Minnesota 

Florian Neubauer MD, PhD

Lab Member 2009-2012

Scientist Universität Bern

Graduate Students

Yuqing Zhu, PhD

Lab Member 2018-2023

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Pamona College

Mufeng Tang, MS

Lab Member 2020-2021

Ph.D. student in Computational Neuroscience at the University of Oxford

Zaina Zayyad, PhD

Lab Member 2017-2021

Neurology Resident Harvard

Maayan Levy, PhD

Lab Member 2016-2021

Post-Doc with Prof. Tim Vogels IST Austria

Peter Malonis, PhD

Lab Member 2016-2021

Vaughn Spurrier, PhD

Lab Member 2015-2019

Senior AI Scientist, Proscia

Joseph Dechery, PhD

Lab Member 2013-2018

Senior Data Scientist, Unity

Brendan Chambers, PhD

Lab Member 2012-2016

Applied Research Scientist, QuillBot

Melissa Rumfeldt, PhD

Lab Member 2009-2014

Senior Data Scientist, Einstein Platform Salesforce

Alex Sadovsky, PhD

Lab Member 2009-2014

Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, SurePrep

Peter Kruskal, PhD

Lab Member 2008-2013

Data Scientist, MORSE Corp.

Undergraduate Students

Meghan Xiang

Lab Member 2020-2023

Chadbourne Smith

Lab Member 2020-2023

Tarek Jabri

Lab Member 2019-2022

Leya Luo

Lab Member 2019-2022

Jingyu Cai

Lab Member 2019-2021

Mofei Wu

Lab Member 2018-2020

Carolina Yu

Lab Member 2017-2021

Jeff Guo

Lab Member 2019-2021

Isabel Garon

Lab Member 2017-2021

Anne Havlik

Lab Member 2018-2019

Harrison Grier

Lab Member 2017-2018

Subhodh Kotekal

Lab Member 2015-2019

Caroline Haimerl

Lab Member 2014-2015

Kyle Bojanek

Lab Member 2013-2017

Suchin Gururangan

Lab Member 2013-2014

Alexandra Carlson

Lab Member 2012-2013

Charles Frye

Lab Member 2012-2013

Lucy Li

Lab Member 2010-2013

Veronika Hanko

Lab Member 2009-2012

Lane McIntosh

Lab Member 2009-2010

Eze Okeagu

Lab Member 2009-2010

Sean Weinberg

Lab Member 2007-2011

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