Undergraduate Students

Josh Hou is a junior undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. He is pursuing a major in Bio: Neuroscience and a minor in Computer science. He joined the Bateman lab in spring of 2023 to work on mass spectrometry analysis of potential biomarkers of neurodegeneration. Outside of lab, Josh is part of an acapella group, a dance team, club swim, and enjoys golfing and playing soccer.

Peter Ochalek is a senior undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis, who is currently pursuing a biology major in neuroscience, and minors in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) and Japanese. He joined the Bateman lab in the summer of 2024 and is working with the NfL and Tau teams on their ongoing projects. Outside of the lab, he is part of Club Swim, the WashU Jazz Ensemble and enjoys brewing his own coffee and playing Magic: the Gathering.