AwardNovember 2025
Overall Best SCI Poster — Mission Connect 2025
Won the overall Best Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) poster at the Mission Connect 2025 conference.
Joseph Sandoval
UHCL Student & UTMB Neurobiology Research Assistant
Studying at University of Houston-Clear Lake while supporting neurobiology research at the University of Texas Medical Branch
Latest News & Updates
PressNovember 2025
Portfolio refresh and new projects
Continuing to add coursework projects, notebooks, and small builds. Check back for updates and links.
PressApril 2025
Joined a campus lab as a student researcher
Began contributing to a campus research lab, assisting with data collection and analysis.
About Me
Academic Background
Undergraduate Student (Kinesiology)
University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL)
Building a foundation in kinesiology with supporting coursework in data analysis and lab methods.
Research Assistant, Neurobiology Department
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB)
Supports neurobiology projects with data collection, analysis, and lab assistance under faculty mentorship.
Research Interests
NeurobiologyCellular & molecular neuroscienceMicroscopy & imagingBehavioral assaysData analysis (Python/R)Scientific communicationCollaboration across labs
Joseph Sandoval is a student at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and a research assistant in the Neurobiology Department at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He is developing skills in neurobiology, imaging, and data analysis while contributing to ongoing lab projects and sharing science with his community.
Highlighted Publications
Conference2025
Overall Best SCI Poster — Mission Connect 2025
Conference poster — Mission Connect 2025Sandoval, J., Sandoval, A., Li, W., Chen, B.
PosterSpinal cord injuryMission Connect
Conference2025
Deep Learning-Based Behavioral Fingerprinting for Spontaneous Pain Detection in SCI
Poster — Department of Neurobiology, UTMBSandoval, A., Sandoval, J., Shang, J., Chen, B.
PosterDeep learningPainSpinal cord injury
Publication2025
Sensory Deficits in Mice with Lateral Spinal Cord Hemisection Mimic the Brown–Séquard Syndrome
Journal of Neuroscience 45(44): e2373242025Henwood, M., Shang, J., Li, Q., Moth, J., Henwood, J., Yi, Y., Green, D., Pal, A., Sandoval, J., Li, W., Dunn, T., Sandoval, A., Zhang, J., Yuan, S., Chen, B.
Spinal cord injuryBrown–SéquardSensory deficits