Ramnarayan Ramachandran, Principal Investigator
Assoc. Prof., Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Assoc. Prof., Department of Psychology
Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center
Training Faculty, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
ramnarayan.ramachandran@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
Ph.D. (Biomed Engg.), 2000, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
M.Sc. (Tech), 1991, Birla Inst. of Technology & Science, India
M.S. (Biomed Engg.), 1993, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Adriana Schoenhaut, Graduate Student
adriana.m.schoenhaut@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
B.S. (Brain and Cognitive Sciences), 2017, University of Rochester
Adriana is a fourth year graduate student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and is co-advised by Dr. Mark Wallace. In the lab, Adriana studies how auditory and visual motion information is integrated and represented across levels of processing in the macaque brain. In her free time, she enjoys playing music, gardening, cooking, treasure hunting in Nashville thrift shops, and hanging out with her dog, Cash.
Amy Stahl, Graduate Student
amy.n.stahl@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
Au.D. (Audiology), 2017, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
B.S. (Speech and Hearing Science), 2017, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
Amy is a second year Ph.D. student in Vanderbilt’s Neuroscience Graduate Program. Amy attended Vanderbilt University Medical School as an Au.D. student from 2017-2021, completed her audiology clinical externship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center July 2020-July 2021, and graduated with her Doctorate of Audiology (Au.D.) in May 2021. Amy is pursuing her Ph.D. with interests in the physiological mechanisms of auditory perception, how those mechanisms break down with hearing loss, the perceptual consequences of those breakdowns, and ways to improve diagnostics and (re)habilitation (e.g., hearing assistive technology, therapeutic recovery) of hearing problems. In her free time, Amy enjoys cycling, baking/cooking, and spending time with family/friends.
Kari Jirik, Audiology Student
karina.j.jirik@vanderbilt.edu
Education:
B.A. (Biology), 2020, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Kari is a third year Au.D. student who is generally interested in auditory neuroscience. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from St. Olaf College. Kari joined the lab because she is interested in studying auditory perception and hearing loss in an animal model. She plans to pursue a career in Audiology, whether that be research or in a clinical setting. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and reading.
Lab Alumni:
Post Doctoral Fellows:
Francesca Rocchi, Research Associate, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Jason Grigsby, Software Development Engineer, Yahoo! Inc., Champaign, IL
Doctoral Students in Neuroscience:
Chase Mackey, Research Scientist, Nathan S. Kline Institute, Orangeburg, NY
Jane Mondul, Postdoctoral Fellow, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Audiology Students:
Rachel Archer, Clinical Audiologist, Blank Children’s Hospital, Des Moines, IA
Maureen Virts, Clinical Audiologist, UChicago Medicine, Chicago, IL
Samantha Hauser, Graduate Student, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Julia Goddeeris, Clinical Audiologist, Bellevue ENT, Seattle, WA
Undergraduate Students:
Alex McCleod, Medical Assistant, Ascension Orthopedics, Austin, TX
Charita Veerapeneni, Medical Student, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Grant Mercer, Senior, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Evan Mercer, Medical Student, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Natalie Schmidt, Senior, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Jennifer McCrate, Compliance Operations Associate, Gerson Lehrman Group, Austin, TX
Sri Reddy, Medical Student, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Harini Suresh, Medical Student, UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
Molly Kaplan, MBA Student, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Tricia Tyson, Internal Medicine Resident, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
Corey Mondul, Anesthesiologist Assistant, Christ Hospital, Cincinnati, OH
Abigail Bernard, Ob/Gyn Resident, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Research Assistants:
Jackson Mayfield, Patient Safety Analyst, HCA Healthcare, Nashville, TN
Catherine Alek, Doctoral Student, Occupational Therapy, Baylor Univ., Waco, TX
Alejandro Tarabillo, Account Manager, Thermo-Fisher Scientific
Namrata Temghare, Harvard Biosciences, St. Paul, MN
Jane Camarata, Research Assistant, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Maggie Dylla, Homemaker, Madison, TN
Justin Watson, Sales Representative, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Asheville, NC
Chaya Narayan, Scientific Writer, Bangalore, India
Peter Bohlen, Engineer, Baebies Inc., Durham, NC
Courtney Timms, Clinical Research Associate, Syneos Health, Dallas, TX