About Us

Passion for Science and Mentoring

We strive to provide an inclusive and supportive mentoring environment for trainees at all career stages and welcome members from all parts of the world and backgrounds. We have a strong commitment to enhancement of rigorous neuroscience, broadening diversity and inclusion, and furthering the discovery of knowledge in order to better human health.

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Meet The Team

Key to the successes and discoveries of our research are the many terrific people that work or have worked in our laboratories.

Kayla Onslow

Research Technician -

Lehman Laboratory (July 2019-Present).

Kayla graduated from Kent State with a BS in Chemistry. She lives in Tallmadge with her husband and two dogs. In the summer she enjoys running, hiking, and kayaking through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Kayla joined the laboratory in July 2019.

Sid Gaikwad

PhD Student -

Coolen Laboratory

Sid joined the Neuroscience Grad Program at UMMC and the Coolen laboratory before the move to Kent State. His thesis research aims to identify pharmacological treatment candidates for sexual dysfunction following spinal cord injuries. He spends his free time hiking and trekking through the woods.

Dayanara Moore

Research Technician -

Lehman Laboratory (June 2019-February 2021),

Moore Laboratory (March 2021-Present).

Born and raised in Kent, Day received a BS in Psychology from Kent State University. Day loves to do research and learn new things every day. Day plans to get a PhD in neuroscience one day.

Thywill Ettey

PhD Student -

Coolen Laboratory (June 2019-Present)

Thywill is from Ghania and has a BS in Biological Sciences from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana. She received her MS in Biological Sciences from Youngstown State University, OH and was a research tech in the Coolen lab for a year before joining the Coolen lab as a BMS- Neuroscience PhD student.

Nathan Ritchey

Undergraduate student -

Coolen Laboratory (Spring 2020-Present)

Nate joined the laboratory in Spring 2020 as a a freshman mathematics and neuroscience major with minors in chemistry and psychology. He studies spinal cord injury and on top of his school work, spends time as an apiarist, disc golfer and a volunteer at the local food bank.

Past members

More coming soon...!

Postdoctoral Researcher -

Coolen Laboratory (2020-2021)

Will is from Virginia and moved to Ohio to continue his education in neuroanatomy. He joined the Coolen lab in Sept 2020 after completing his PhD in Biomedical Sciences at Neomed/Kent State during which he studied development of auditory circuits, cholinergic circuits in the auditory midbrain. He is now interested in delineating spinal patterns generators in the lumbar spinal cord and impact of spinal cord injury.