Lab Team

Lemon Lab staff and students.

Our lab brings together faculty, researchers, staff, and trainees working across sensory neurobiology, taste, thermosensation, and neural circuit function.


Christian Lemon, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator &
Professor of Biology

Jinrong Li, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Chris Brooks, Ph.D.

Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Catori Roberts

Research Assistant

Kyle Zumpano, B.S.

Biology Graduate Student &
Ph.D. candidate

Rosalie Maltby, M.S.

Lab Research Supervisor

Yashaswi Dantala, M.S.

Data Analyst

Rachel Sumner

Undergraduate Assistant


Summer 2023 lab group

Jinrong, Langa, Kyle, and Lemon (Summer 2023)

Lab Alumni (in progress)

Keon Azadi (Norman High School Student): now an undergraduate at UCLA

Langa Dlamini (undergraduate): now a Behavioral Health Therapist in Boston

Traci Redwine (undergraduate): now a Ph.D. student in neuroscience at the OU Health Campus in Oklahoma City

Md Sams Sazzad Ali (post-doc): now a Clinical Instructor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore

David Wilson (Ph.D. student): now a Senior Regulatory Manager at Bayer in St. Louis