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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.
Christy Boesch is a 3rd year PsyD student at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. She received her BS degree in 2017 from California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo in Child Development with a Psychology and Studio Art minor. In 2019 she graduated with her MS degree in Infancy and Early Childhood Development from University College London. Christy conducted research with the Anna Freud Centre in London, UK, which evaluated how parental mental health correlated with children's cognitive development.
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 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 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.
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.
Sara Wessen Chang is an art historian, curator, and producer with a focus on neuroaesthetics. She serves as an artist and community liaison for arts initiatives at the Memory and Aging Center and the Global Brain Health Institute.
