Auerbach Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Dr. Auerbach is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and Medicine-Cardiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University, a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine-Cardiovascular Research at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Phone: (315) 464 - 7952
Email: [email protected]
PhD Students
Veronica is a graduate student in the Pharmacology PhD program. Prior to joining the Auerbach Lab, she earned her BS in Biology from SUNY Oswego in 2019 where her research focused on the interactions between complement proteins in a bacterial model. She is now working on determining the lowest threshold for inducing a seizure in a Long QT Syndrome rabbit model with a long-term goal of mapping out a timeline for the series of events leading up to SUDEP.
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Laura is a graduate student in the Pharmacology PhD program. She earned her BS in Bioprocess Engineering from SUNY ESF in 2018. While working as an engineer, she decided she wanted to pursue a career in academia. She gained research experience as a wet lab technician before joining the PhD program at SUNY Upstate. In the Auerbach Lab, Laura seeks to work at the intersection of her scientific and mathematical interests. Her work is centered around identifying cardiac risk factors of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP).
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Masters Students
Pranitha is a BS/MD student at Upstate Medical University. She started volunteering at the Auerbach Lab last summer, and will be joining the Auerbach Lab full time as a MS student prior to entering medical school. She will be graduating with her BS in Biotechnology from SUNY ESF in December. Pranitha is currently developing machine/deep learning tools to facilitate high throughput analysis of continuous biological signals.
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Research Staff
Senior Research Support Specialist
Lab Manager
Kyle is a research support specialist and leads the “wet bench”/animal experiments in the Auerbach Lab. He received his B.S. Ch from Purdue University in biochemistry in 2012. While at Purdue, he spent several years in a protein crystallography lab studying alternative substrate binding sites in bacterial phenylalanine hydroxylase.
Phone: (315) 464-8556
Email: [email protected]
Research Assistant Professor
Justin is an applied mathematician. He grew up in nearby Weedsport, NY, earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Applied Mathematics from Wichita State University, KS, and completed a Post-Doc Fellowship in Mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina. Justin leads the Auerbach Lab's clinical studies and computational projects.
Phone: (315) 464-6909
Email: [email protected]
Medical Students
Jon is a third-year medical student at Upstate with an interest in cardiology and critical care. Jon earned his bachelor's in biology/psychology from S.U.N.Y. Geneseo in 2021. He has also obtained training as a national-registered paramedic, flight paramedic, community paramedic, neonatal-pediatric transport, and as a military medic in the Army. He currently works as a paramedic locally in Syracuse while attending school.
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Cara is a third year-medical student working on a clinical ECG database project. She graduated from Cornell University in 2021 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences, with a concentration in Computational Biology. She is a Syracuse native.
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John is a second-year medical student at Upstate assisting with EEG clinical case studies. He graduated from Binghamton University in 2022 with a bachelor’s in Biological Sciences. He is from Long Island.
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Undergraduate Students
Sophia is a sophomore at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in its B.S./M.D. Program with SUNY Upstate Medical University and currently studying Biology. She is a student assistant in the Auerbach Lab, helping coordinate various prospective enrollment clinical studies to study multisystem measures in different populations.
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Nic is a student at Syracuse University. Interested in Mathematics and Engineering, he joined Auerbach Lab in Fall 2023 to assist in the production of electrode devices and data management.
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MD/MS Alumni
Laura is a third year medical student at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Between her second and third years of Med school, Laura earned a masters degree in the Auerbach Lab. She studied RNA/DNA expression in the lab's rabbit model of Long QT Syndrome Type 2, and helped develop a surgical protocol to implant EEG and ECG electrodes in the rabbits for continuous long-term monitoring.
Previous Lab Members
Prep-Up Students
Students
Graduate Volunteers
Med Student Volunteers
- Azka Chaudhry
- Annelise Hamer
- Anjlee Panjwani
- Bill Tan
- David Losier
- Peter Grella
- Cameron Bosinski
- Justin Durland
- Joseph Toth
Undergraduate Volunteers
- Rishi Aeleti
- Jackson Jost
- Matt Wang