Mazen is a postgraduate director of the LaCrosse lab, focusing on cellular and molecular research. 

Rebecca ia a lab manager in LaCrosse Labs and gained a bachelor's degree in both Psychology and Forensic Biochemistry at Northern in May 2023. Rebecca's research consists of looking at the ST3GAL3 gene at specific SNP, rs3952787, to see if it could potentially predict attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), anxiety, and depression. 

Rebecca also helped out former lab member Nicole Thomas and her study "Genetic Alterations Associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Reference: Thomas, Nicole, "Genetic Alterations Associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" (2023). All NMU Master's Theses. 743. https://commons.nmu.edu/theses743

Rebecca also teaches three lab sections, PSY250 and PSY 100. 

Alex is a second year Integrative Bioscience Master's program student at Northern Michigan University. Alex is studying how epigenetic factors impacts GABAergic metabolism in PTSD. For the future, Alex would like to work in the biotech industry and then go on to PHD program involving molecular neuroscience after a few years of working.

Alex also presented at the 2024 Three-Minute Thesis competition at the Northern Center. 

Heba is a second year psychology graduate student at Northern Michigan University. Heba's thesis is on the ST3GAL3 gene and how it is differentially methylated over time indicating a gene-by-environment interaction, as well as an altered ST3GAL3 expression. 

Nicole Marion is currently attending the Univeristy of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio enrolled in the integrative biomedical sciences PhD program. She is working with Dr. Naomi Sayre's lab that primarily focuses on the effects of stroke anf TBI on the aging brain.

Nicole is currently working on a continuation project from a recent graduate. She is looking at the effects of neurogenesis following the knockout of low-density lipoprotein receptor related to protein 1. Right now within the project, Nicole is focusing on the memory impairment aspect of KO. She is also examining the dentate gyrus of our mice to see how neurogenesis is being affected by the KO, specifically looking at neural sten migration, maturation, and apoptosis.