Staff and Students | Clinical Systems Biology

Francisco Carrera (B.Sc.), Volunteer Research Assistant 

Francisco Carrera holds a B.Sc. degree in Psychology with a minor in Behavioral Neuroscience and Applied Statistics and is currently a volunteer research assistant at the Clinical Systems Biology Group.  His work entails performing discrete logic analysis of complex regulatory networks for the purpose of identifying and simulating treatment courses for complex chronic illnesses such as Gulf War Illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and underlying sub-groups.

Ricardo Castellanos (M.Sc.), Research Associate

Ricardo Castellanos holds M.Sc. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering and is currently a research associate with the Clinical Systems Biology Group in Nova Southeastern University's Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine. His work involves Signal Processing, Data and Statistical Analysis/Modeling, Classification, Pattern Recognition, Feature Extraction/Selection, Machine Learning and Data Mining applied to biological, symptom, psychological and clinical data to identify biopsychological signatures of illness in Gulf War Illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and potential illness subtypes.

Rajeev Jaundoo (B.Sc.), Research Programmer

Rajeev Jaundoo holds a B.Sc. in Psychology and is currently a research programmer at the Institute for Neuro-Immune Medicine. His work includes utilizing high performance computing to screen novel biochemical compounds to treat complex chronic illness, creating pipelines for drug discovery, and writing algorithms to perform molecular simulation and drug-protein interactions. Other work includes the development of tools to interpret proteomic, genomic, metabolic, etc. databases to identify novel pathways of interest in various diseases.

Tory Toole (Ph.D. candidate, Clinical Psychology,  class of 2019, Nova Southeastern University)
Thesis: "Network Modeling of Neurochemical Interaction and the Relation to psychological Behaviors and Measures"

Tory Toole holds a M.A. in Psychology and is currently pursing a degree in Clinical Psychology. His work involves constructing networks of feedback and feed-forward mechanisms, relating neurochemicals to behavior, and using this biobehavioral network to simulate the protective role of well-being against traumatic stress and related depression and anxiety. 

Mary Jeffrey (Ph.D. candidate, Clinical Psychology,  class of 2020, Nova Southeastern University)
Thesis: "Neuropsychological Findings in GWI and Supporting Literature"

Mary Jeffrey holds a M.A. in Clinical Psychology and is currently pursing a degree in Clinical Psychology.  Her work involves data management and statistical analysis of psychological and symptom profiles to identify discriminating factors of Gulf War Illness, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/ Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and potential illness subtypes.

Jeylen Garcia (B.Sc. student, Behavioral Neuroscience, class of 2022, Nova Southeastern University)

Research Interests: Gene expression analysis of ME/CFS and GWI.

Jacob Hardy (B.Sc. student, Behavioral Neuroscience, class of 2019, Nova Southeastern University)

Research Interests: Network analysis of ME/CFS and GWI.

Victoria Wyma (B.Sc. student, Behavioral Neuroscience, class of 2022, Nova Southeastern University)

Research Interests: Analysis and molecular modeling of single nucleotide polymorphisms in ME/CFS and GWI.