
Stacey Combes
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior
155A Hutchison Hall
[GoogleScholar]
sacombes [at] ucdavis.edu

Christofer Brothers
PhD student
Animal Behavior graduate group
155A Hutchison Hall

Sofía Meléndez Cartagena
PhD student
Animal Behavior graduate group
155A Hutchison Hall

Katie Jordan
PhD student
Neuroscience graduate group
155A Hutchison Hall
Brady Nichols
Graduate student, Animal Behavior Graduate Group
Yashvi Monani
Undergraduate research assistant, Human Biology major
Sophia Phillips
Undergraduate research assistant, Animal Biology major
Katya Tapia
Undergraduate research assistant, Biological Sciences major
Anne (Mengyao) Chen
Undergraduate research assistant, Biological Sciences major
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Former Lab Members – U.C. Davis
- Rachel Crane, Postdoctoral researcher, 2021-2025, https://www.rlcrane.com
- Nicholas Burnett, Postdoctoral researcher, 2017-2023
- Susie Gagliardi, Research Associate, 2013-2021
- Marc Badger, Postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2019
- Victor Ortega-Jimenez, Postdoctoral researcher, 2016-2017, https://ornithopterus.com
- Emily Keliher, Undergraduate researcher, 2020-2022
- Annaliese Wargin, Undergraduate researcher, 2017-2020
- Ukyoung Chang, Research assistant, 2016-2017
Undergraduate or post-bacc researchers:
(1 year or less)
Cheyenne Neal, 2025 Victoria Lopez Campos, 2024-2025 Yaxuan Guo, 2023-2024
Ulises Martinez, 2023-2024
Karen Vasquez, 2022-2023
Daniella Guizarnotegui Gomez, 2021-2022
Kelly Fong, 2021
Clarissa Serna, 2021
Emma Griffis, 2021
Gwen Little, 2019-2020
Ahmad Azizi, 2018
Beverley Loo, 2018-2019
Mariana Flores, 2018
Kathleen Pugh, 2018
Jacqueline Baeza-Monroy, 2016-2017
Rene Cuellar, 2017
Janna Vaystub, 2017
Franziska Degen, 2016
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Former Lab Members – Harvard
Mary Salcedo, Graduate student, 2013-2019
Jake Peters, Graduate student, 2012-2018
Callin Switzer, Graduate student, 2012-2017
James Crall, Graduate student, 2010-2016, https://www.crall-lab.com
Andrew Mountcastle, Postdoctoral researcher, 2010-2015, http://www.andrewmountcastle.org/
Nick Gravish, Postdoctoral researcher, 2013-2015, http://gravishlab.ucsd.edu
Sridhar Ravi, Postdoctoral researcher, 2012-2014, https://www.unsw.edu.au/staff/sridhar-ravi
Undergraduate and post-baccalaureate researchers:
Andrew Clark, 2014-2016
Emily Mistick, 2014-2015
Jeremy Chang, 2014-2015
Kenneth Brown, 2015
Robert Oppenheimer, 2015
Justin Downer, 2015
Lucas McNeilly, 2013-2014
Anita Murrell, 2012-2013
Kelsey McKenna, 2012-2013
Teressa Alexander, 2013
Jude Russo, 2013
Jay Iwasaki, 2010-2012
Daniel Rundle, 2010-2012
Cassandra Urquhart, 2010-2012
Meelyn Pandit, 2012
Terra Weiland, 2012
Amber DesLauriers, 2011
Candido Diaz, 2011
Kelly Holt, 2010
Ifedayo Kuye, 2010
Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2009