Assistant Professor

Amelia is a native of Australia (yes, we have Kangaroos). She obtained her Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours from the University of Queensland, Australia before moving to Munich, Germany to complete her PhD with Ruediger Klein at the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology. She then moved to Boston, USA for her postdoc where she worked with Brad Lowell at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School. Here, she discovered how the brain’s stress axis becomes activated during starvation and pioneered methods to perform continuous recordings of neural activity to understand the circadian control of feeding.

Outside of the lab she loves to bake with weird and wonderful flavors, tries to hike as many mountains as possible and, is raising a tiny human.

Technician/Lab manager

Guru Prasad is originally from India, where he completed his undergraduate studies in Biomedical Engineering. He went on to earn a Master’s degree in Biomedical Imaging from the University of Turku, Finland. He then moved to Switzerland to pursue his doctoral studies at the University of Geneva in the lab of Prof. Christoph Michel, where he worked with the kainate mouse model of epilepsy and discovered the importance of remote regions in large-scale epileptic networks.For his postdoctoral research at University College London (UCL) in the lab of Prof. Dimitri Kullmann, Guru investigated focal cortical dysplasia using mouse models and neuropixels recordings. He joined the Douglass lab in August 2025.

Outside the lab, Guru enjoys hiking, practicing yoga, and writing poetry.

Rotation Student

Dow attended the Humboldt University in Berlin for his Bachelor's in Biology and completed a masters in Neuroscience at the University of Vienna. His work guided him from Home-Cage monitoring at the Winter Lab over affective Neuroscience at the Haubensack Lab to finally conducting a characterization of the developing cortex at the Hippenmeyer group. As a rotation student In the Douglass lab, Dow is studying how chronic stress affects physiology.

Outside the lab Dow enjoys cooking and sharing food, getting lost in a book and exploring a new creative outlet. 

Scientific Intern

Eunice Barbosa joined the lab in August 2025 as a Scientific Intern. She grew up in Mexico and received her bachelor’s in Biosciences from Tecnológico de Monterrey (Mexico) in June 2025. Eunice previous worked in Brad Lowell’s lab at Harvard Medical School, where she investigated neural circuits that control feeding. As an intern in the Douglass lab, she is currently characterizing the acute stress response by tracking behavior, physiology, and neural activity in the hypothalamus. 

In her free time, she likes to cook, mostly so she doesn't starve.

Scientific Intern

Marina was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia, where she studied Psychology before moving to Vienna to complete a Master’s degree in Neurobiology. She gained experience in systems neuroscience and neuroanatomy while working in the laboratory of Thomas Klausberger at the Medical University of Vienna, focusing on cognitive flexibility. Since August 2025, Marina has worked in the Douglass lab, where she is now investigating hypothalamic circuits.

She became a passionate snowboarder before she was even old enough to remember it, and she has a lasting love for mandarins, tea, and black pepper.