Lab Members
Diego Mendoza-Halliday, PhD
Principal Investigator
Email: diegomendoza {at} pitt.edu
Diego Mendoza-Halliday is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Training Faculty in the Neuroscience Institute Graduate Programs at Carnegie Mellon University, a Faculty member at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, and a Research Affiliate in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. Previously, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Research Scientist in the lab of Dr. Robert Desimone at MIT, where he applied multi-electrode laminar recordings and developed optogenetic tools to investigate the neuronal mechanisms of visual feature attention, working memory, and their interaction. Dr. Mendoza-Halliday completed his PhD in Cognitive Neurophysiology at McGill University under the research mentorship of Dr. Julio Martinez-Trujillo.
Adam Persello
Research Technician
Email: ajp150 {at} pitt.edu
Education
B.S. - Neuroscience
M.S. Candidate - Bioengineering
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
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Cameron Blakeley
Research Technician
Email: cab655 {at} pitt.edu
Education
B.S. - Biological Sciences
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Ahmed Abdaltawab
Postdoctoral Associate
Email: ama632 {at} pitt.edu
Education
M.D.
Cairo University Medical School, Cairo, Egypt
Vishnu Soni
Ph.D. Student - CNUP Program
vys14 {at} pitt.edu
Education
B.S. - Neuropsychology
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Zitong (Tony) Gao
Undergraduate Student - CNUP Summer Research Program
Email: vys14 {at} pitt.edu
Education
B.S. - Neuroscience / Medicine, Health, and Society
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Join Us!
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​The Mendoza-Halliday Lab is currently recruiting Postdocs, PhD Students, and Research Technicians. Details below.
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Postdocs
The Mendoza-Halliday Lab is currently seeking candidates for one Postdoc position. Candidates must have completed a PhD in a relevant field by the start of the position. Candidates with research experience related to the lab's field of study or methods are particularly encouraged to apply.
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To apply, send an email to Dr. Mendoza-Halliday including:
- Curriculum Vitae (with publications list)
- Brief summary of past and current research
- Brief summary of future research goals and interests
- Brief summary explaining your interest in joining the Mendoza-Halliday Lab
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PhD Students
The Mendoza-Halliday Lab is currently recruiting PhD students. Email Dr. Mendoza-Halliday to discuss opportunities to join (or do a rotation in) our lab if you are currently enrolled in or were accepted into one of these programs:
- Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh (CNUP) PhD Program
- PhD Program in Systems Neuroscience (PSN) at Carnegie Mellon University
- PhD Program in Neural Computation (PNC) at Carnegie Mellon University
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If you are not currently a PhD student in these programs and would like to join the lab, you will first need to apply to one of the programs above.
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Past Mentors and Current/Recent Collaborators
Robert Desimone
Professor, MIT​
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Julio Martinez-Trujillo
Professor, Western University
Andre Bastos
Professor, Vanderbilt
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Earl Miller
Professor, MIT
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Xiao-Jing Wang
Professor, NYU
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Guoping Feng
Professor, MIT
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Alex Major
Research Scientist, MIT
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Haoran Xu
Research Scientist, MIT
Christopher Cueva
Research Scientist, MIT
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Andrii Zahorodnii
Undergraduate Student, MIT
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Aniekan Umoren
PhD Student, Columbia
