Neurology

Joshua Downer, PhD

Data Scientist

My research aims to provide a greater understanding for how the auditory cortex supports our ability to communicate.

Eugenie Mamuyac

Eugenie Mamuyac

Research Coordinator

Eugenie Mamuyac joined the UCSF Dyslexia Center's Multitudes project in September 2021. Now, she primarily works with Dr. Jessica de Leon as a research coordinator and administers the CATS (Cognitive Assessments for Tagalog Speakers) battery.

Prior to UCSF, Eugenie received her master's degree in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of San Francisco. Her research interests include bilingualism and acculturation.

Jacob Ziontz, PhD

Jacob Ziontz, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Jacob completed his doctoral work in Neuroscience in the Jagust lab at UC Berkeley, where he investigated the effects of network connectivity on Alzheimer’s pathology spread and cognitive aging. His research utilizes fMRI and PET imaging to study the biological substrates of changes in cognition.

Maya Bardorf

Maya Bardorf, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Maya graduated from Middlebury College in 2024 with a BA degree in neuroscience and a minor in art history. During her time at Middlebury, she contributed to a research project investigating gender and sex differences in visuospatial abilities among children using the Judgment of Line and Position Task (JLAP). Maya also spent a summer as a research assistant in the Hammack Laboratory of Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Vermont, where she studied the neurobiological underpinning of anxiety-like and depression-like behaviors.

Hieu Pham

Hieu Pham, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Hieu Pham received his BA degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology with an emphasis on Neurobiology from UC Berkeley. He is from Sacramento, California, and plans to pursue medical school in the future. At the Memory and Aging Center, Hieu is part of the team working on the frontotemporal dementia program project grant, Frontotemporal Dementia: Genes, Images and Emotions.

Berenice Fuentes-Juárez

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator
Sophia Licata

Sophia Licata

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Sophia is a research coordinator in Dr. Joel Kramer’s lab working primarily on the Brain Aging Network for Cognitive Health study and the Mechanisms of Executive Decline study. She graduated with a BA degree in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley in 2024.

Marcus Piattoni, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Marcus is a recent Loyola University Chicago graduate who majored in Neuroscience and minored in Bioethics.

Anjali Sadarangani, BA

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Anjali is an Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator in the lab of Adam Staffaroni, PhD.

Melissa Sotelo, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

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