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