Our Team

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.