People
Maria M. Diehl, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Maria received her B.S. in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University in 2004 and completed a postbaccalaureate research program at Virginia Tech in 2006. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where she studied audiovisual integration of faces and vocalizations in the primate prefrontal cortex in the laboratory of Dr. Lizabeth M. Romanski. Maria completed her postdoctoral training in Dr. Gregory Quirk's lab at the University of Puerto Rico School of medicine, where she studied the neural circuits of active avoidance in rats. The Diehl Lab opened its doors in August 2019 in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kansas State University.
Email: mmdiehl at ksu dot edu / CV
Courses:
Psychobiology (PSYCH 470)
Principles of Learning (PSYCH 475)
Introduction to Behavioral Neuroscience (PSYCH 590)
Graduate Seminar in Physiological Psychology (PSYCH 951)
Twitter: @DrDiehl_Neuro
Jyothi Kalarikkal
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jyothi joined the lab in January 2023
Ivy Auletti
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Ivy joined the lab in January 2023
Charlotte Kettler
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Charlotte joined the lab in January 2023
Shannon Ruble
Graduate Student
Shannon joined the lab in July 2022
Cassandra Kramer
Research Assistant
Cassie joined the lab in October 2022
Lexe West
Undergraduate Student
Lexe joined the lab in August 2022
Allison Drouhard
Undergraduate Student
Allison joined the lab in August 2022
Allison Moser
High school Research Assistant
Allison joined the lab in June 2022
Emma Wrampe
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Emma joined the lab in May 2022
Ashi Wickramasundara
High school Research Assistant
Ashi joined the lab in May 2021
Former Lab members
Greg Erickson
Graduate Student
Alyssa Scott
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kelly Krehbiel
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jenna Thompson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tessa Maze
Research Assistant
Katie Rodriguez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sarah Martin
Research Assistant
Felipe Deihle
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jonathan Andrusak
Undergraduate Research Assistant
The Diehl lab is hiring!
We are looking for talented undergraduate and graduate students to join the lab! Contact Dr. Diehl with your CV and interest in the lab at mmdiehl at ksu dot edu.