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Uzoaku Okafor

Name of hometown: Lee's Summit, MO Name of undergrad/grad institution: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine What I love to do most outside of work is…reading, watching movies, and listening to music. My pet peeve is when people talk with food in their mouth. The most interesting...

Previous Lab Members and Researchers

Anna Burns (Undergraduate Researcher) Kiran Eiken (Undergraduate Researcher) Ally Elder (Undergraduate Researcher - UMKC Graduate 2020) Emily He (Undergraduate Researcher) Joseph David Jones, Ph.D. (Ph.D. Candidate - Defended 2022) Andrew Montgomery, Ph.D. (Post-doctoral Research Fellow - 2023/2024)...

Anushka Kanga

Name of hometown: St. Louis Name of undergrad/grad institution: UMKC A cut above: What I love to do most outside of work is read and explore KC with friends! Needle unprotected: My pet peeve is picky eaters. Slice of life: The most interesting thing about me you may not know is that I was born in...

Jill Jones, MD

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Hometown: Sedalia, MO Undergrad: Missouri State University Med School: University of Kansas Diagnostic Radiology Residency and Body Imaging Fellowship: University of Kansas What I love to do most outside of work is: travel! I have to have at least one trip on the horizon at all times. Next up is...

Abhinav Krovvidi

I joined the Dissel lab in Early 2023 to pursue undergraduate research on Drosophila and memory. Soon after starting I was tasked with developing the protocol for the Appetitive Olfactory Memory Assay, working on developing the work on the T-Maze paradigm started by my predecessor. I then graduated...

Nina Mitchell

I joined the Dissel lab in January 2024 to continue undergraduate research on Drosophila. Since then, I have been developing an alternative protocol for appetitive olfactory short-term memory utilizing the Y-Maze paradigm. I am working towards my B.S. in Biology and applying to medical school, where...