SUN Program
What is the Summer Undergrate Neuroscience program at the Neuroscience Center of Excellence?
Application for SUN Program
2026 Download application in PDF format (0.532 MB).
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SUN Program c/o Zevenaar Flowers Davis
LSUHSC Neuroscience Center of Excellence SUN Program
2020 Gravier Street, 8th Floor
New Orleans, LA 70112
Applications open on November 1, 2025
Deadline to submit applications is March 1, 2026
2025 SUN Students and Mentors
From Left to Right
Seating Dean and Mentors: Drs. Pranab Mukherjee, Surjyadipta Bhattacharjee, Minghao Jin, Haydee E.P. Bazan, Richard DiCarlo (Dean, LSU School of Medicine), Nicolas G. Bazan (Professor and Director, Neuroscience Center of Excellence), Ludmila Belayev, Hamilton Farris, and Marie-Audrey Kautzmann.
Second Row: Avery Dunbar (Junior, Baylor University, Waco, TX), Dr. Danielle Allen (Mentor), Amaia Ottley (Sophomore, Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN), Amelia Stein (Senior, Academy of Sacred Heart, New Orleans, LA), Marcia A. Gonzalez (Freshman, LSU Baton Rouge, LA), Irene Ha (Junior, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA), Valeria Gaffney Rauda (Freshman, Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies, New Orleans, LA), Chiara Bazan (SUN Student of Cardiovascular Center of Excellence, Graduated from Academy of Sacred Heart/Freshman, U.C. Berkeley, CA), Natalie Devraj (Sophomore, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA), Juliette Lemoine (2nd year Medical Student, LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA), Nikhita Kanagala (Junior, LSU Baton Rouge, LA), Olivia Kelly (Sophomore, LSU Baton Rouge, LA), and Dr. Chunlai Wu (Mentor)
Third Row: Grayson Evans Wise (top student Jesuit High School/Freshman, Georgetown University, Washington, DC), Jeff Ji (Mentor), Daniel Lee (Sophomore, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ), Ben Sheline (Senior, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL), Brian Giles (Mentor), Landon Montano (Sophomore, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI), Henri Noel (Sophomore, LSU Baton Rouge, LA), Aleksander Cognevich (Sophomore, University of Texas in Austin), Terrance Vincent (Sophomore, Washington College, Chestertown, MD), and Zevenaar Flowers Davis (Coordinator of SUN Program).
2023 SUN Students and Mentors
2021 SUN Students and Mentors
2020 SUN Students and Mentors
Standing (from Left to Right):
Vicente Bermudez, Postdoctoral Fellow, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca Institute for Biochemical Research, Argentina
Sophie Marathonitis, LSU Health New Orleans, IDP Graduate Program
Alexander Murphy, De La Salle High school, (Senior-HS)
Parker Byers, Vanderbilt University, (Junior-Neuroscience)
Connor Polk, University of Notre Dame, IN
Neehar Desai, Brown University, Providence, RI
Ellen Terry, Tulane University, Junior (pre-med)
Sitting:
Dr. Jeffrey Erickson
Victoria Hart, Tulane University, Junior (pre-med)
Dr. Nicolas G. Bazan
Twila L. Gaston, LSU Medical Student
Surjyadipta Bhattacharjee