Undergraduate Students

Taraneh Atri is a junior undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. She is majoring in biology, neuroscience and has minors in music and applied linguistics. Taraneh joined the Bateman Lab in the spring of 2023 and is working primarily with the NfL team to better characterize neurofilament light. She plans to attend medical school after completing her undergraduate education. Outside of the lab, Taraneh serves as a Matched Academic Mentor and is principal double bassist of the WashU Symphony Orchestra.

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.

Ziqiao (Aurora) Jiao is a rising senior undergraduate student at Washington University. She is double majoring in statistics and psychology. She joined the Bateman Lab in Spring 2023 doing computational works with datasets cleaning. Being interested in data, she is keen on the statistics use in lab works. Upon completion of undergraduate study, she will continue to graduate school in areas of statistics and biostatistics. Outside of the lab, she loves badminton and cooking.

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.