Jesse Gomez PH.D.

Principal Investigator

jessegomez [at] princeton [dot] edu
PNI Room 234
Jesse Gomez is a neuroscientist in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where he is the principal investigator of the Brain Development Lab. He received his BA in Neuroscience from Dartmouth College with Dr. Brad Duchaine, his PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University with Dr. Kalanit Grill-Spector, and completed postdoctoral training at UC Berkeley with Dr. Kevin Weiner. At Princeton, he teaches courses on Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Toshikazu "Toshi" Miyata

Postdoctoral Scholar

Dr. Toshi Miyata is a joint NINS-Princeton research fellow between the Gomez Lab and the Takemura Lab of the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki, Japan. He is an expert in diffusion MRI and is researching how white matter connectivity scaffolds the spatial and temporal organization of the human brain across development.

Anna Lyn Williams

Research Specialist

Anna is a predoctoral research specialist at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and lab manager of the Brain Development Lab. Currently, her research focuses on characterizing patterns of cortical folding in the human dorsal visual stream, as well as examining the corresponding neural and behavioral development of visuospatial attention. She is also interested in applying quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (qMRI) to examine how fine-scale changes in tissue composition and macromolecular volume relate to maturing visual abilities.

Frederick d'Oleire Uquillas

Graduate Student

Frederick is a Presidential Fellow and PhD candidate in the Neuroscience Department at Princeton University. His research focuses on large scale brain networks and cerebellar contributions to cortical structure and function across the lifespan, and is supported by the National Science Foundation and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

Omar Singleton

Graduate Student

Omar Singleton is a PhD student at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. He previously worked on neuroimaging projects at MGH, and now studies how the human thalamus develops across the lifespan and the roles it plays in mediating developmental changes in the cortex in neurotypical individuals and those diagnosed with psychiatric disorders.

Priscilla Louis

Graduate Student

Priscilla is studying under Jesse Gomez and Tim Buschman at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Supported by the Presidential Fellowship, she seeks to understand the structural and functional development of working memory, episodic memory, and their overlapping networks in humans.

Edan Daniel

Graduate Student

Edan is a PhD student at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. She previously worked on EEG analyses in the Dinstein Lab at Ben-Gurion University in Israel, and now researches how visual experience during either childhood or adulthood shapes the organization and computations that occur within visual cortex.

Patricia Hoyos

Graduate Student

Patricia Hoyos is a PhD candidate at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, and member of the Gomez and Kastner labs. She is currently studying the development of the human dorsal stream to understand how changes in our attentional abilities and biases are shaped by structural and computational changes occurring within visual cortex. Patricia is also an HHMI Gilliam Fellow and Presidential Fellow.

Damola Ogunlade

Graduate Student

Damola completed her undergraduate degree in neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a first-year student in PNI rotating in the lab where she'll be studying auditory cortex development through novel MRI methods.

Bing Li

Graduate Student

Lab Alumni

Ruggaya Musa
Mariam Latif
Rowen Gesue
Carlos Cortez
Folarin Okulaja
Sidney Gregorek
Zach Yazdani
Matthew Trotter
Stuart Duffield
Allie Reynolds
Niranjana Bienkowska
Shannon Chen