Jose A. Alba Hernandez graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College with a B.A. in Health Fitness and Pre-Medicine. He joined the LaBar lab as a Research Scholar through the Duke PREP program. Jose will begin the Physical Therapy program at Duke University in 2009.

LeeMarie Ayers graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2005 with her B.A. in Psychology. She assisted with research in Joe Hopfinger's laboratory while at UNC. She was the LaBar lab manager from 2005-2006. She is now in the School Psychology Ph.D. program at UNC Chapel Hill.

Nineequa Blanding joined the laboratory through Duke's Prep Program in order to study the effects of stress on emotional learning. She graduated in 2004 from Spelman College where she earned a B.A. in psychology. She is currently working as a research assistant for Dr. Kerry Ressler at Emory University.

Allison Bullock (White) began working as a research assistant in the LaBar lab during January 2009. She completed an honors thesis on sensory preconditioning and graduated in May 2011. Allison will begin graduate school in the fall of 2011 at the University of Georgia where she is going to train to be a clinical social worker.

Craig Cook graduated from Duke University in May 1997 with a B.S. in Psychology.  He worked at Parexel International in Research Triangle Park, NC before joining the LaBar lab as an Associate in Research. He is currently attending medical school at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Julie Cooper graduated from Duke in 2003 with a B.S. degree in Psychology and a minor in chemistry. She is now attending University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Michael Crupain received his B.S. in Psychology from Duke in May 2001.  After graduating Michael worked in the TMS lab at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Currently he is a student at New York Medical College.

Jacqui Detwiler received her B.A. from Florida State University in Psychology and Creative Writing in 2005. Jacqui completed three years as a graduate student in the interdisciplinary program in cognitive neuroscience. She is currently pursuing a career as a writer.

Dr. Dan Dillon is a post-doctoral researcher in the Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at Harvard University (Lab Director: Diego Pizzagalli). Dan is currently using electrophysiological and neuroimaging techniques to examine the neural bases of depression and emotion regulation. For his dissertation research in the LaBar Lab, Dan examined the physiological correlates of voluntary emotion regulation in healthy participants. Using startle probe methodologies and event-related potentials (ERPs), Dan demonstrated that emotion regulation strategies can affect stimulus processing within 150 msec and primarily serve to modulate participants' arousal responses. In addition, Dan demonstrated that emotion regulation can modulate explicit memory via strategic influences on stimulus elaboration. Specifically, regulation strategies which encourage stimulus elaboration (e.g., reappraisal) facilitate explicit memory, while strategies which divert attention away from stimulus elaboration (e.g., expressive suppression) impair explicit memory. The overarching goal of Dan's research is to use cognitive neuroscientific techniques to improve understanding of emotion regulation and psychopathology.

Meghan Donlevy graduated from Duke in 2002.  She is currently a student at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Harlan Fichtenholtz is currently a postdoctoral associate with Marcia Johnson at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. from Duke in December 2006. While in the LaBar lab, his research focused on the interactions between the processing of emotional information and the focusing of attention. Before joining the LaBar Lab he worked as a research associate for Professor George R. Mangun at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke. Harlan graduated from Oberlin College in May 1999 with a B.A. in Psychology and Judaic and Near Eastern Studies. He received an Individual NRSA fellowship from NIH in 2005.

Lisa Gatti graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She worked at NYU and UNC in a variety of clinical and research areas before joining the LaBar lab. She has returned to University of Pennsylvania for graduate school.

Dr. Reiko Graham earned her B.A. degree at Simon Fraser University in 1993.  She then completed her Masters Degree in Health and Human Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia.  After that, Reiko went to the University of Alberta, where she received a Ph.D. is Psychology. Reiko was a postdoc in the LaBar lab from 2002-2005. She is currently an assistant professor at Texas State.

Steven Green received a B.S. in psychology and B.A. in philosophy from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He joined the lab in July of 2007 and began graduate school August 2009 at the University of Indiana. His research interest is on the effect of frustration on learning and problem solving.

Neil Gupta graduated from Duke in 2002.  He is currently a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Glen Gutterson joined the lab in May 2009 and graduated in May 2011. He plans to begin medical school in the fall of 2011.

Dr. Lauren Half Warren graduated from Connecticut College in 1996 with a double major in Psychology and German Studies. She recently received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UNC. Her primary interests include preclinical dementia and neuropsychological and functional predictors of Alzheimer's disease. Lauren was the LaBar lab manager from August 2006 to June 2007 and is now a post-doctoral research associate in the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center with Kathie Welsh-Bohmer, Ph.D. at Duke University Medical Center.

Nicole Huff earned her B.A. in Psychology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She went on to complete her M.A. in Psychology at the University of Texas prior to returning to Boulder to receive her Ph.D. in Neuroscience and psychology in Jerry Rudy's laboratory. She studies the role of hippocampus in contextual processing and conditioning. Nicole joined the LaBar lab as a postdoctoral associate in 2005. In 2010, Nicole received a post-doctoral NRSA fellowship and began new postdoctoral training under Dr. Staci Bilbo in Duke's Systems and Integrative Neuroscience section of the Psychology & Neuroscience department.

Benjamin Lin graduated from Duke in May 2000 with a B.S. in both Psychology and Biology and a certificate in Neuroscience. Currently, Ben is attending dental school at the University of Pittsburgh.

Dr. Dan McShea is an associate professor in Duke's Biology department. His field of study includes Macroevolution and Paleobiology. He joined the LaBar lab as visiting faculty during the 2004-2005 academic year.

Leonardo Christov Moore received a BS in Psychology with a Neuroscience certificate from Duke University in 2007. He is interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie emotional decision making, specifically with regard to social cognition and moral behavior. He was a research assistant in the LaBar lab from January through August of 2007, and conducted a study examining altruistic emotions and their phsyiological correlates during game-theoretical scenarios.

Dr. Dagmar Rachbauer was an exchange student from the University of Salzburg/Austria.  She returned to Austria to pursue her PhD which she completed in 2005.

Allison Scott completed her senior thesis in the lab during the 07-08 academic year. Her research focused on contextual processing effects on fear extinction. She has now joined the Huettel lab at Duke and is their lab manager..

Virginia Sinclair graduated cum laude with distinction from Duke in December 2001. She received a B.A. in Psychology and minored in English. She is currrently in the Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practioner Program at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.

Dr. Laura Thomas is currently a postdoctoral associate with the National Institute of Mental Health, Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program. She graduated from Vassar College in 2000 with an A.B. in Psychology, and minored in Hispanic Studies. She received her Ph.D. from Duke in December 2007. As a graduate student in the LaBar lab, Laura's research focused on the influence of emotion on implicit forms of learning and memory, as well as the development of emotional facial recognition. Laura was awarded a Predoctoral NRSA fellowhip through NIH in 2005, and is a recipient of the 2006 Women in Neuroscience award through the Society for Neuroscience.

Sheena Waters graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2004 with B.S. Biology and B.A. Psychology degrees. She completed an honors Biology thesis in the lab of Dr. Terry Van Dyke at UNC's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. She joined the LaBar lab in summer 2005, to help assess the role of variation in genes implicated in memory in cognitive brain function.

Dr. Michael Zorawski received a BSc honours degree in psychology from the University of York (UK) in 1998.  He also spent a year at the University of California in San Diego as an exchange student. He went on to do a PhD under supervision of Dr. Simon Killcross, first at York and then at Cardiff University (UK), where he studied the acute effects of glucocorticoids on associative learning and memory consolidation in rats. Upon completion of his postdoctoral fellowship in the LaBar lab in January 2005, Michael accepted a teaching position at the National University of Singapore. Since 2006, Michael has been training and working as a cognitive-behavioral therapist in Hamburg, Germany.