Alumni Members<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>![](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2022\/05\/TonyHuangCrop-271x300.jpg\" "\\"TonyHuangCrop\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Tony Huang<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: tonyh@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div>![\"Personal](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2020\/06\/home-icon.png\")
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<\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Tony was a student majoring in Bioengineering at UIUC and worked on behavioral testing, genotyping and machine learning for data acquisition. He is starting his PhD in Electrical\u00a0Engineering at Purdue University in the Fall of 2025 and enjoys playing with his cat, Ollie, along with hiking\u00a0and photography in his free time.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Bioengineering<\/a>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- Doctoral Student, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2024\/03\/Nathan_Yoon_HS-1-282x300.jpg\" "\\"Nathan_Yoon_HS\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Nathan Yoon<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: nbyoon2@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>In 2025 Nathan graduated in psychology from UIUC. He was involved in a variety of projects for the lab, with a primary focus on using intracranial viral reporters for circuit tracing\u00a0 studies of monoaminergic neurons with genomic imprinting allelic expression profiles. Alongside his research, he works in an emergency room as a licensed EMT and hopes to pursue a career as an emergency physician.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Psychology<\/a>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2022\/05\/LukeTamasSq-e1749652076131-276x300.jpg\" "\\"LukeTamasSq\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nLuke Tamas<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/h5>\nUndergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: atamas3@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Luke graduated 2025 UIUC, majoring in psychology with a concentration in cognitive neuroscience and minoring in integrative biology and philosophy. He was accepted by the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn the Bonthuis lab, he worked with neural networks and machine learning software for data acquisition on lab projects centered on discovering the effects of genomic imprinting in monoaminergic systems on social behavior. Specifically, he trained neural networks to detect and track the location and movement of mice.\u00a0 His contribution allows the lab to automatically score video recordings of mouse behavioral experiments.<\/div>\n<\/div>Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience<\/a>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2024\/02\/Anne-FarahUsman-274x300.jpg\" "\\"Anne-FarahUsman\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anne-Farah Usman<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: afusman2@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anne-Farah is a graduate in Molecular Cellular Biology and minor in Public Health.\u00a0 Her contribution to the lab was studying the effects of nonconical imprinting of the Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene on social behaviors. In her free time she enjoys sailing, playing basketball, and taking long walks. After graduating in 2024, she entered the graduate program at the University of Chicago to pursue a PhD in the field of epigenetics and gene regulation.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology<\/a>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- Doctoral Student Human Genetics, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2022\/05\/Eggleston_Photo-e1651424622349-257x300.jpg\" "\\"Eggleston_Photo\\"")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Rachel Eggleston<\/h3>\n<\/div>Academic Research Technologist<\/h5>\n
Email: rlegg29@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nOffice: VMBSB 3834<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Rachel is originally from Bloomington-Normal, IL and graduated from Illinois State University in 2020. She is currently in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at UIUC and plans to\u00a0 become a Zoological\/Aquatic veterinarian. In her free time she enjoys playing with her forever kitties; Oakley, O\u2019Malley, and Cortland. She also enjoys reading and spending time outside.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine<\/a> program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- BS, General Biology<\/a>, Illinois State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Moudar](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2021\/10\/Moudar_Dweydari_250x300-214x300.jpg\" "\\"Moudar")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Moudar Dweydari<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: mdweyd2@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>As a 2024 graduate in Kinesiology<\/a> Mo worked on behavioral testing and genotyping in the lab.\u00a0 He was accepted to Georgetown University<\/a> Medical School starting fall of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS Kinesiology<\/a>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- Medical Student, Georgetown University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Jill](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2021\/10\/Jill_Hook_250x300.jpg\" "\\"Jill")
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Jill Hook<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: jrhook2@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Jill’s research is focused on using immunohistochemistry to determine the identify of monoaminergic cell populations in the brains of mice. After graduating with a Bachelors degree from UIUC, she wishes to attend a Genetic Counseling Program where she then will be able to one day become a Genetic Counselor in either a hospital or research lab based setting.<\/p>\n<\/div>
<\/span><\/div><\/div>Tony Huang<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: tonyh@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Tony was a student majoring in Bioengineering at UIUC and worked on behavioral testing, genotyping and machine learning for data acquisition. He is starting his PhD in Electrical\u00a0Engineering at Purdue University in the Fall of 2025 and enjoys playing with his cat, Ollie, along with hiking\u00a0and photography in his free time.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Bioengineering<\/a>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- Doctoral Student, Electrical Engineering, Purdue University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Nathan Yoon<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: nbyoon2@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>In 2025 Nathan graduated in psychology from UIUC. He was involved in a variety of projects for the lab, with a primary focus on using intracranial viral reporters for circuit tracing\u00a0 studies of monoaminergic neurons with genomic imprinting allelic expression profiles. Alongside his research, he works in an emergency room as a licensed EMT and hopes to pursue a career as an emergency physician.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Psychology<\/a>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
<\/h3>\n<\/h3>\nLuke Tamas<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/h5>\nUndergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: atamas3@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Luke graduated 2025 UIUC, majoring in psychology with a concentration in cognitive neuroscience and minoring in integrative biology and philosophy. He was accepted by the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Neuroscience at the University of Iowa to pursue a PhD in Neuroscience.<\/div>\n<\/div>\nIn the Bonthuis lab, he worked with neural networks and machine learning software for data acquisition on lab projects centered on discovering the effects of genomic imprinting in monoaminergic systems on social behavior. Specifically, he trained neural networks to detect and track the location and movement of mice.\u00a0 His contribution allows the lab to automatically score video recordings of mouse behavioral experiments.<\/div>\n<\/div>Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Psychology: Cognitive Neuroscience<\/a>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Anne-Farah Usman<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: afusman2@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Anne-Farah is a graduate in Molecular Cellular Biology and minor in Public Health.\u00a0 Her contribution to the lab was studying the effects of nonconical imprinting of the Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene on social behaviors. In her free time she enjoys sailing, playing basketball, and taking long walks. After graduating in 2024, she entered the graduate program at the University of Chicago to pursue a PhD in the field of epigenetics and gene regulation.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS, Molecular and Cellular Biology<\/a>, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- Doctoral Student Human Genetics, Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Rachel Eggleston<\/h3>\n<\/div>Academic Research Technologist<\/h5>\n
Email: rlegg29@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nOffice: VMBSB 3834<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Rachel is originally from Bloomington-Normal, IL and graduated from Illinois State University in 2020. She is currently in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at UIUC and plans to\u00a0 become a Zoological\/Aquatic veterinarian. In her free time she enjoys playing with her forever kitties; Oakley, O\u2019Malley, and Cortland. She also enjoys reading and spending time outside.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Education<\/h5>\n\n- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine<\/a> program, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- BS, General Biology<\/a>, Illinois State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Moudar Dweydari<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: mdweyd2@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>As a 2024 graduate in Kinesiology<\/a> Mo worked on behavioral testing and genotyping in the lab.\u00a0 He was accepted to Georgetown University<\/a> Medical School starting fall of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>Education<\/h5>\n\n- BS Kinesiology<\/a>, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<\/li>\n
- Medical Student, Georgetown University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Jill Hook<\/h3>\n<\/div>Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: jrhook2@illinois.edu<\/a>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Jill’s research is focused on using immunohistochemistry to determine the identify of monoaminergic cell populations in the brains of mice. After graduating with a Bachelors degree from UIUC, she wishes to attend a Genetic Counseling Program where she then will be able to one day become a Genetic Counselor in either a hospital or research lab based setting.<\/p>\n<\/div>
Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
Email: tonyh@illinois.edu<\/a> Tony was a student majoring in Bioengineering at UIUC and worked on behavioral testing, genotyping and machine learning for data acquisition. He is starting his PhD in Electrical\u00a0Engineering at Purdue University in the Fall of 2025 and enjoys playing with his cat, Ollie, along with hiking\u00a0and photography in his free time.<\/p>\n<\/div> Email: nbyoon2@illinois.edu<\/a> In 2025 Nathan graduated in psychology from UIUC. He was involved in a variety of projects for the lab, with a primary focus on using intracranial viral reporters for circuit tracing\u00a0 studies of monoaminergic neurons with genomic imprinting allelic expression profiles. Alongside his research, he works in an emergency room as a licensed EMT and hopes to pursue a career as an emergency physician.<\/p>\n<\/div> Email: atamas3@illinois.edu<\/a> Email: afusman2@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> Anne-Farah is a graduate in Molecular Cellular Biology and minor in Public Health.\u00a0 Her contribution to the lab was studying the effects of nonconical imprinting of the Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene on social behaviors. In her free time she enjoys sailing, playing basketball, and taking long walks. After graduating in 2024, she entered the graduate program at the University of Chicago to pursue a PhD in the field of epigenetics and gene regulation.<\/p>\n<\/div> Email: rlegg29@illinois.edu<\/a> Rachel is originally from Bloomington-Normal, IL and graduated from Illinois State University in 2020. She is currently in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program at UIUC and plans to\u00a0 become a Zoological\/Aquatic veterinarian. In her free time she enjoys playing with her forever kitties; Oakley, O\u2019Malley, and Cortland. She also enjoys reading and spending time outside.<\/p>\n<\/div> Email: mdweyd2@illinois.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div> As a 2024 graduate in Kinesiology<\/a> Mo worked on behavioral testing and genotyping in the lab.\u00a0 He was accepted to Georgetown University<\/a> Medical School starting fall of 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div> Email: jrhook2@illinois.edu<\/a> Jill’s research is focused on using immunohistochemistry to determine the identify of monoaminergic cell populations in the brains of mice. After graduating with a Bachelors degree from UIUC, she wishes to attend a Genetic Counseling Program where she then will be able to one day become a Genetic Counselor in either a hospital or research lab based setting.<\/p>\n<\/div>
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div>Nathan Yoon<\/h3>\n<\/div>
Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/h3>\n
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Luke Tamas<\/h3>\n<\/div>
<\/h5>\n
Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div>Anne-Farah Usman<\/h3>\n<\/div>
Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div>Rachel Eggleston<\/h3>\n<\/div>
Academic Research Technologist<\/h5>\n
\nOffice: VMBSB 3834<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div>Moudar Dweydari<\/h3>\n<\/div>
Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>Education<\/h5>\n
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<\/span><\/div><\/div>Jill Hook<\/h3>\n<\/div>
Undergraduate Student<\/h5>\n
\nLab: VMBSB 3811<\/p>\n<\/div><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
![\"Sam](\"https:\/\/vetmed.illinois.edu\/bonthuis-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/115\/2021\/10\/Sam_Rahman_250x300-1.jpg\" "\\"Sam")
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