Evan Semenza

Evan is a Sophomore undergraduate student in Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He is currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Neuroscience. Evan works as a research assistant in Ravi Allada's Lab in Northwestern's Department of Neurobiology, where his current primary focus is on the modulatory effects of various immune signaling proteins, including the transcription factor NF-kappaB, on sleep-state proboscis extensions and recovery from traumatic brain injury in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.

During the summer months, Evan works in the laboratory of Solomon Snyder at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Department of Neuroscience, where his research aims to uncover the molecular mechanisms underlying cocaine action and neurotoxicity.

May 2016