
Brett R. Schofield, Ph.D.
Professor
Dr. Schofield heads the Schofield Lab. In addition to being a principal investigator, he teaches Medical Neuroscience to medical and graduate students at NEOMED. He has over 40 years’ experience using tract-tracing and immunohistochemical techniques to investigate the neuroanatomy and neuromodulation of the auditory brain.
Email: bschofie@neomed.edu

Nichole L. Beebe, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Beebe is involved in grant writing, experimental design, and data collection and analysis within the lab. She has worked on numerous projects, including subtyping of GABAergic cells in the inferior colliculus and the development of a normal-hearing line of ChAT-Cre mice.
Email: nbeebe@neomed.edu

William A. Noftz, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Noftz is involved in experimental design, data collection, and data analysis in the lab. He has worked on a number of projects, including the identification of cholinergic inputs to the inferior colliculus.

Colleen S. Sowick
Research Associate
Ms. Sowick provides expert technical assistance for the Schofield lab, including cutting and staining of neural tissue and management of supplies and equipment. Most recently, she contributed to the development of a normal-hearing line of ChAT-Cre mice.

Heather Smith, M.A.
PhD Student
Mrs. Smith is currently pursuing her PhD in the Raghanti Lab at Kent State University and has a BM in violin performance and a MA in experimental archaeology. She is working with the Schofield Lab on a project examining collateralization of projections to the ventral tegmental area and inferior colliculus. Her research interests include the evolution of language as studied through the interaction of the reward pathway and the auditory system. She also studies bio-cultural evolution through ancient soundscapes.
We collaborate with numerous labs. See more information about our current collaborators here.
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Previous Lab Members
Postdocs:
Kyle T. Nakamoto, Ph.D.
Jeffrey Mellott, Ph.D.
Graduate students:
Diana Coomes Peterson (Ph.D. 2004)
Susan Motts (Ph.D. 2010)
Nichole Beebe (Ph.D. 2016)
William Noftz (Ph.D. 2020)
Medical students:
Wyatt Wollman
Steve Lowe
Ragavi Lanka
Ryan Edelbrock
Dominique Cox
Megan Fritz
Undergraduate students:
Thomas Tran
Scott Perkins
Jeffrey Krsnak
Ryan Schofield
Kristen Sorensen LaFond
Andrew Ohl
High School students:
Gina Ann Good Crow
Andrew Ohl
Technical Staff:
Arkadiusz Slusarczyk
Megan Storey-Workley
Pooyan Mirjalili
Nina Lenkey