Principal Investigator:  Ethan Gahtan

Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Biology

Functional architecture of neural circuits, neuroethology, behavioral genetics, cellular mechanisms of neurological disease, evolutionary psychology

Curriculum Vitae

Research | People | Publications | MA thesis

Contact

Ethan Gahtan
eg51@humboldt.edu
Office: BSS 428

Some Lab Alumni

Undergrad RA's and their post-graduation moves

• Maggie Baker, Doctoral program in molecular biology, Johns Hopkins University
• Aaron DeWald, University of South Dakota Medical School
• Elizabeth Gould, Doctoral program in Neuroscience, University of Colorado, Denver
• Kevin Simonson, Joint MD/MBA program, University of California, Irvine
• Lisa Voelker, Doctoral program in Neurobiology, University of Washington
• Masha Melnick, Doctoral program in Biology, University of California, San Diego
• Sarah Wood, Doctoral program in Psychology, Florida State University
• Ellyn Bass, Doctoral program in Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha
• Samantha Sheldon , Doctoral program in Neuroscience, Boston University
• Allen Chen, Masters of Science program in Human Factors at Cal State Long Beach
• Tori Shen, UCSD Eating Disorders Center for Treatment and Research
• Neha Arora, CIRM (California Institute for Regenerative Medicine) scholar, Stanford University

Master’s students and their post-MA moves

• Brian Griffiths, Doctoral program in Psychology, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• Nathan Helm-Burger, Doctoral program in Neuroscience, Georgetown University
• Sarah Stednitz, Doctoral program in Neuroscience, University of Oregon, Eugene
• Kristen Gallander, Doctoral program in Zoology at the University of British Columbia
• Briana Freshner, Research technician, Division of Neurology, University of Utah School of Medicine
• Trevor Caudle, Clinical Research Coordinator in Dr. Amit Etkin's lab, Stanford University school of medicine
• Benjamin Bishop, Chemistry Lab Specialist, Monterey Peninsula College
• Michael Stobb (Mathematics MS supervised by Prof Bori Mazzag), Doctoral program in Mathematics, University of California, Merced

Selected Publications

• Bass EC, Stednitz SJ, Simonson K, Shen T, Gahtan E. (2014) Physiological stress reactivity and empathy following social exclusion: a test of the defensive emotional analgesia hypothesis. Soc Neurosci. 9(5):504-13.

• Griffiths BB, Schoonheim PJ, Ziv L, Voelker L, Baier H, Gahtan E. (2012) A zebrafish model of glucocorticoid resistance shows serotonergic modulation of the stress response. Front Behav Neurosci. 6:68.
• Stednitz SJ, Freshner B, Shelton S, Shen T, Black D, Gahtan E. (2015) Selective toxicity of L-DOPA to dopamine transporter-expressing neurons and locomotor behavior in zebrafish larvae. Neurotoxicol Teratol. 52(Pt A):51-6.
• Stobb M, Peterson JM, Mazzag B, Gahtan E. Graph theoretical model of a sensorimotor connectome in zebrafish. PLoS One. 2012;7(5):e37292.