Our team

  • Hooley Family Dean’s Faculty Fellow

    Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

    Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences.

    The Vanderbilt Brain Institute

  • Research Assistant

  • Research Assistant

  • Masters Student

  • Vanderbilt Vertices Postbac Program

  • Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow

Spontaneous activity conference in Altea, Spain, 2024

  • Natalie and Nate presented posters. Left to right: Alex Tiriac, Natalie Clark, Nathan Stanko

  • Marla and her former/current postdocs. Left to right: Juli Rosa, Alex Tiriac, Marla Feller, & Rachana Somaiya

Brain Blast 2024

  • Brain blast team - Alex, Salisha, Natalie, Beimnet (Happy)

  • Teaching eye anatomy

  • Even the mascots want to learn!

Goodbyes and welcomes, Fall 2023

left to right: Natalie, Fernanda, Toby, Happy, Alex, Dominic, Nate

Taking some time out to have fun with the Suver lab, Summer 2023

left to right: Alex, Toby, Dominic, Olivia, Fernanda, Marie

Lab Alums

Dominic Vita, PhD (Postdoc) - now at Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Cheadle lab)

Rotating students:

2024: Beimnet Kassaye (IGP); Tobias McCabe (BioSci); Salisha Baranwal (IGP); Kelby Kane (IGP)