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 education program at Virginia Tech (VT-PREP) in 2006. In 2012, she received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry, 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:

Twitter: @DrDiehl_Neuro

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Kartik Yadav

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Kartik joined the lab in January 2025

Helen Durrett

High School Student

Helen joined the lab in January 2025

Ethan Summervill

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ethan joined the lab in October 2024

Troy Fort

Research Assistant

Troy  joined the lab in September 2024

Ashley Landau

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Ashley joined the lab in August 2024

Penylopi Zabzdyr

Graduate Student

Penni joined the lab in June 2024

Annabelle Hall

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Belle joined the lab in May 2024

Shannon Ruble

Graduate Student

Shannon joined the lab in July 2022

Former Lab members


Undergraduates

Lexe West

Halle Ness

Jordan Willbrant

Dylan Mader

Ivy Auletti

Capri Hellwig

Maya Anchondo

Lizzie Vetter

Taylor Bachtel

Constanza Blasco Sosa

Charlotte Kettler

Mario Caycedo

Allison Drouhard

Jyothi Kalarikkal

Emma Wrampe

Alyssa Scott

Kelly Krehbiel

Jenna Thompson

Katie Rodriguez

Felipe Deihle

Jonathan Andrusak

Research Assistants

Cassandra Kramer

Sarah Martin

Tessa Maze

High School Students

Allison Moser

Ashi Wickramasundara

Graduate Students

Greg Erickson

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.