Yakov Verbny, PhD
Assistant Researcher

Mike Rummel, B.S.
Associate Research Specialist

Mike is graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been with the Bank’s lab for close to 3 years. Mike is working on the development of a cannula system to infuse anesthetics directly on to the rat auditory cortex, while simulanteously recording auditory evoked potentials.

Rita is currently studying at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the field of psychology. She has been with the Bank’s lab for a year. Rita is involved in the training of rats on an auditory discrimination task.

Sneha Shrestha
High School Internship

Sneha is a at Madison West High School who has been working in the Bank’s lab for 8 months. She is working on an auditory discrimination task in which rats have to discern between an increase in frequency and decrease in frequency of 13 different sets of novel stimuli.