Valeria was an undergraduate volunteer whilst attending Macalester College pursuing a major in Neuroscience with a pre-med track and a minor in Women's, Gender and Sexuality studies. Her research interests include neurodegenerative diseases, such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome. She has previously worked in an immunology lab at Macalester with Dr. Elena Tonc who specializes in characterizing chronic pain through immunohistochemistry and cell cultures. In her free time Valeria enjoys reading, listening to music, thrifting and listening to true crime podcasts with her cat. In the Streng lab, she examined hippocampal and cerebellar alterations in chronically epileptic mice. She graduated from Macalester college in Spring 2025.

Vienna is a first-year student in the Graduate Program in Neuroscience working toward her PhD. She rotated in the Streng Lab January-March 2025. She previously attended the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she earned a BA in Psychology and an MS in Psychology (Behavior Analysis) while working in a behavioral neuroscience lab. Prior to attending the University of Minnesota, she played professional soccer for eight years in Europe. Her research focus is how the cerebellum contributes to nonmotor behavior and higher cognitive function. She intends to study the cerebellum’s structural and functional anatomy, its network connectivity, and its relationship to other brain structures such as the thalamus, striatum, and hippocampus. She is interested in characterizing optimal cerebellar function as well as dysfunction in disorders such as autism and epilepsy. She joined the Krook-Magnuson lab for her PhD research in 2025 to extend her work examining the fastigial nucleus of the cerebellum (which is also cool)