Fioravante Lab
From synapses to circuits
Diasynou Fioravante, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
Core Faculty, Center for Neuroscience
Affiliate Faculty, Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics
Affiliate Faculty, Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine
Member, Neuroscience Graduate Group
Member, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group
email: dfioravante at ucdavis dot edu
http://neuroscience.ucdavis.edu/user/474
https://neuroengineering.ucdavis.edu/people/diasynou-fioravante
office: 530-752-1887
lab: 530-754-7382
Se Jung Jung, MS
Staff Research Associate 3
Amanda Iglesias, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Esteban Merino Madronero, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emily Misnick, MS
Graduate Student
MCIP
Carolina Bazan
Research Assistant 2
UC Davis NPB
Zihan Wang
Undergraduate volunteer
NPB, Math
Charles Metzler
Undergraduate volunteer
Chemistry, NPB
Arnav Chaudhuri
Undergraduate volunteer
NPB
Aashi Shah
Undergraduate volunteer
NPB
Jake Polvi
Undergraduate volunteer
NPB
Rotation students
Meghann Shorrock
Fall 2014
BMCDB
Jamie Slater
Winter 2015
Neuroscience
Eden Barragan
Fall 2015
Neuroscience
Kaity Ronning
Spring 2016
Neuroscience
Arvind Rajan
Fall 2016
BMCDB
Aki Bowers
Fall 2016
MCIP
Joseph Martinez
Spring 2017
Neuroscience
Ksenia Vlasov
Fall 2018
Neuroscience
Alexa D'Ambra
Winter 2018
Neuroscience
Caroline Keeshan
Winter 2020
Neuroscience
Atheer Nisan
Fall 2020
MCIP
Audrey Chrisman
Winter 2024
Neuroscience
Emily Misnick
Winter 2025
MCIP
Ksenia Vlasov, PhD
Grad. student Neuroscience
LaMP T32 Trainee
F31 NRSA Fellow
Alumni
Jennifer Jahncke
Graduate studies
Vollum Institute
Jennifer M. Leedy
Neurona Therapeutics
Jamie Ahn
CA Northstate Univ. College of Medicine
Alex Ideguchi
Tulane University School of Medicine
Sneha Vaddadi
Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine
Claudia Quarshie
Univ. Southern California Keck School of Medicine
Eileen Perez
Touro Univ. California
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Porter Harrast
Graduate studies
UC Davis Neuroscience
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Matt Tracy, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Univ. of Nebraska Lincoln
Maribel Anguiano
Graduate Studies
UC Davis Neuroscience
Teresa Barron Goldman
Mouse Biology Program
UC Davis
Marina Fernandez-Frentzel
COVID-19 Captive
Julia Nguyen
Mary Regan Meyer Award Fellow
Yale School of Law
Abhijna Parigi, PhD
Scientific Writer
10x Genomics
Mihir Baya
UC Davis
Neurobiology,
Physiology and
Behavior
Amber Arif
Lab Assistant 2
Edbertt Frez
UC Davis Neurobiology,
Physiology and Behavior
Jessica Tran
UC Davis
Cognitive Science
Sophia Robles
ADNR Scholar
UC Davis Neurobiology,
Physiology and Behavior
Swetha Ganesan
Gillings School of Global Public Health
UNC, Chapel Hill
Ellaine Arroyo
UC Davis Neurobiology,
Physiology and Behavior
Paige Condy
Student assistant 2
UC Davis Animal Science
Jacqueline Villalobos
UC Davis Neurobiology,
Physiology and Behavior
Alexa D'Ambra, PhD
Grad. student
Neuroscience
MCB T32 Trainee
Dean's Distinguished
Graduate Fellow
Kiana Sadeghi
Postbac student
UC Davis
Macy Mehdioun
Postbac student
UC Davis
Diana Rivera
Research assistant 2
Martha-Root Mbah
Research assistant 2
Ali Dye
Student assistant 2
Cognitive Science
Carolyn Chiu
Undergraduate volunteer
Biochem Mol Biol
Sara Camarero
Student assistant 2
Biochem Mol Biol
Jade Dungca
Student assistant 2
Biological Sciences
Shaveta Populu
Global Disease Biology Practicum
Visitors/Short-term interns
Labib Damouni
Hayley Huynh
Harita Vasamsetti
Ananya Sarkar
Johns Hopkins U
Aini Gusmira Amir
NAIST
Dale Bongbong
Michaela Mark
Boston College
Aaron Handa
Abigail Mora
SFSU
UCDGAP summer intern
Amulya Tippireddy
CA Northstate University
College of Health Sciences
Harshini Mohan
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Vivian (Ruxuan) Hao
October 2015
September 2023
August 2024
March 2017
July 2022
March 2018
November 2021