SUN Program
What is the Summer Undergrate Neuroscience program at the Neuroscience Center of Excellence?
Application for SUN Program
2025 Download application in PDF format (0.532 MB).
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SUN Program c/o Zevenaar Flowers Davis
LSUHSC Neuroscience Center of Excellence SUN Program
2020 Gravier Street, 8th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
Applications open on October 15, 2024
Deadline to submit applications is March 1, 2025
2023 SUN Students and Mentors
2021 SUN Students and Mentors
2020 SUN Students and Mentors
Standing (from Left to Right):
Vicente Bermudez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca Institute for Biochemical Research, Argentina
Sophie Marathonitis, LSU Health New Orleans, IDP Graduate Program
Alexander Murphy, De La Salle High school, (Senior-HS)
Parker Byers, Vanderbilt University, (Junior-Neuroscience)
Connor Polk, University of Notre Dame, IN
Neehar Desai, Brown University, Providence, RI
Ellen Terry, Tulane University, Junior (pre-med)
Sitting:
Dr. Jeffrey Erickson
Victoria Hart, Tulane University, Junior (pre-med)
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan
Twila L. Gaston, LSU Medical Student
Surjyadipta Bhattacharjee
2019 SUN Students and Mentors
2018 SUN Students and Mentors
From left to right: Sayantani 'Misty' Bhattacharjee, Dr. Jorgelina Calandria, Sophia Marathonitis, Dr.
Pranab Mukherjee, Jacy Haynes, Katelyn Robillard, Fernando Blank, Kenneth Terry III,
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan, Dr. Aram Asatryan, Dr. Ludmila Belayev, Randon Heim, Hadiya
Rasheed, Dr. William Gordon, Madeline Fahey, Brenda Chiappinelli,
Ayrian Le Beauf and Dr. Hamilton Farris
2017 SUN Students
First row: Nikolai Kurganov, Ludmila Belayev, Angela Barattini, Christine Gambino, Sarah Yanofsky,
Nicolas Bazan, James Li, Whitney Walkoski, Andrew Williams,Brenda Chiappinelli
Back row: William Gordon, Marie-Audrey Kautzmann, Pranab Mukherjee, Aram Asatryan, Caitlin Leslie,
Ham Farris, Martha Dreyer, Shawn Marcell
Dr. Aram Asatryan coordinated the presentations and discussion
Link for 2017 graduation pictures
2016 SUN Students
Left to right: David Yang, Joshua Lott, Brenda Chiappinelli, Elizabeth Hill, Megan Eakin,
Clinton Givens, Zoe Piccus, Garren Mitchell, Peace Ekpo, Kenneth Terry II, Grace Taffaro,
Scott Sullivan, Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan, Larissa Penn, Mariah Allen, Ke'Yon Jones, Rebehah
Travis, Krishna Shah, Parker Byers, Traci Mai, Gregory Marks, Uday Patel, Zevie Davis,
and Zachary Sachar