Principal Investigator
Tamar Green, MD
Dr. Green earned her MD at Ben Gurion University and her training as a child psychiatrist at Tel Aviv University, Israel. She completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Stanford University. She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the Principal Investigator at Brain Imaging, Development, Genetics Lab (BRIDGE). Dr. Green holds NIH-funded awards, is a Francis S. Collins Scholar, and holds the Stephen Bechtel Endowed Faculty Scholarship. Her research focuses on human genetic models of neurodevelopmental disorders. Her laboratory is interested in Rasopathies, a group of syndromes caused by genetic mutations in Ras/MAPK, including Noonan syndrome and Neurofibromatosis 1. A primary objective of these studies is to uncover neural correlations between Ras/MAPK signaling and deficits in attention, memory, and social skills.
Yaffa Serur, MD - Postdoctoral Fellow
Yaffa was born in Mexico City, where she finished medical school. Her research focused on neurogenetic syndromes as models for understanding behavior and psychiatric disorders. Currently, she is doing a postdoctoral fellowship at the lab. She has many projects, and she is responsible for observing assessments, doing MRIs, and the medical aspects of the research in the lab.
Mira Raman, PhD - Imaging Analyst
Mira's career has centered around neuroimaging with a primary emphasis on structural MRI. She has been with the Division of Interdisciplinary Brain Science Research, on and off since 2008. Currently, her work is focused in The BRIDGE Lab, on structural, functional, and DTI imaging studies of children and adolescents with RASopathies.
Naomi Fuhrmann, BA - Research Assistant
Naomi graduated from Reichman University with a major in Psychology. She's currently an assistant researcher at Bridge Lab, where she administers cognitive assessments, recruits participants, and leads community outreach initiatives.
Sara Pardej, Ph.D. - Postdoctoral Fellow
Sara Pardej earned her BA in Psychology and BS in Cognitive Science at Marquette University. Afterwards, she attended the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under the mentorship of Dr. Bonita P. Klein-Tasman, where she earned both her MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology. There, she worked on several studies focusing on youth with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), including behavioral phenotyping work, psychometric studies, and a social skills intervention study. Her dissertation study, which was funded by a Young Investigator Award from the Children's Tumor Foundation, focused on examining event related potentials using EEG by comparing children with NF1 to children with idiopathic ADHD and unaffected children. She completed her Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology at Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania. While at Penn State, she also worked on research examining safety and psychopathology in youth with ADHD and/or autism. Her clinical interest is neuropsychology, and her research interests include issues of psychometrics, behavioral phenotyping, and the neuropsychological development (and subsequent areas of intervention) of individuals with NF1 across the lifespan.
Odeya Russo, BS - Research Assistant
Odeya recently graduated from UCLA with a degree in Statistics and Data Science. She is currently interning at the Bridge Lab, collaborating with Yaffa and Mira on statistical and data analyses for behavioral projects, while also focusing on automating data processes and managing the behavioral database. Outside of the lab, she enjoys playing beach volleyball, practicing pilates, running, and experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.