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Lianna Doan
Lab Administrator

Derek Lessing
Lab Manager

Stacey Sullivan
Research Assistant

Josie Emery
Research Assistant

Samantha Finkbeiner
Research Assistant

Will Allen
Harvard Junior Fellow

Tricia Horvath
HHMI/JCC Fellow

Harris Kaplan
HHMI/JCC Fellow

Vikrant Kapoor
Staff Scientist

Sophia Liang
Postdoctoral Fellow

Ding Liu
Charles King Trust Fellow

Brandon Logeman
Postdoctoral Fellow

Jeffrey Moore
Postdoctoral Fellow

Mostafizur Rahman
Postdoctoral Fellow

Changwoo Seo
JCC Fellow

Zuri Sullivan
HHMI Hanna Gray Fellow

Mustafa Talay
Postdoctoral Fellow

Nicolai Pena
PiN Graduate Student
Athena Capo-Battaglia
Undergraduate

Darlene Fung
Undergraduate

Autumn Johnson
Undergraduate

Ije Okereke
Harvard Graduate '22
Alumni
Gilles Herrada, 1996-2001
Current Position: Independent personal advisor
Georgy Koentges, 1997-2001
Current Position: Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Lisa Stowers, 1997-2002
Current Position: Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Joint Appointment: Associate Professor, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute
Wagner, Shlomo, 1999-2004
Current Position: Senior Lecturer and Head of the Laboratory for Neurobiology
of Social Behavior, University of Haifa, Department of Biology and Department of Neurobiology and Ethology, Israel
Papes, Fabio, 2001-2004
Current Position: Professor, Department of Genetics and Evolution, State University of Campinas-Institute of Biology, Brazil
Zirlinger, Mariela, 2002-2011
Current Position: Head Editor – Neuron, Cell Press
Kimchi, Tali, 2004-2008
Current Position: Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Neurobiology, Israel
Dani, Adish, 2004-2010
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Santoro, Steven, 2004-2014
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Development Biology, University of Colorado School of Medicine Anschutz Medical Campus
Lanjuin, Anne, 2004-2015
Current Position: Laboratory Manager, Mair Lab Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Gregg, Christopher, 2006-2011
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Human Genetics, University of Utah School of Medicine
Yao, Shenqin, 2006-2015
Current Position: Scientist II, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, WA
Ben-Shaul, Yoram, 2007-2011
Current Position: Senior lecturer/Faculty, Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada (IMRIC) at the Hadassah Medical School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Bergan, Joseph, 2007-2014
Current Position: Assistant Professor in the Behavioral Neuroscience Division, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Isogai, Yoh, 2007-2016
Current Position: Senior Research Fellow - Principal Investigator, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London
Butler, James, 2009-2010
Current Position: MD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Fellow, Department of Pediatrics, Genetics & Metabolism, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Jakob, Susanne, 2010-2013
Current Position: Preceptor, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University
Rubinstein, Nimrod, 2012-2016
Current Position: Computational Biologist, Calico LLC, South San Francisco, CA
Autry, Anita, 2011-2018
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Kohl, Jonny, 2014-2018
Current Position: Assistant Professor, The Francis Crick Institute
Li, Ying, 2014-2019
Principal Investigator at the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, China
Bambah-Mukku, Dhananjay
2013-2021
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, UC San Diego
Nelson, Adam 2012-2021
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Sensory Biology Center, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming
Ho-Shing, Olivia 2019-2022
Current Position:
Scientist, NanoString Technologies
Ostherhout, Jessica 2016-2022
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Utah
Moore, Jeff 2015-2022
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, USC
Graduate Students
Pantages, Erica, 1996-2002
Current Position: Freelance developmental editor, education consultant
Chang, Ernest, 1996-2002
Current Position: Clinical Trial Manager at UNC Chapel Hill, NC
Loconto, Jennifer, 1996-2002
Current Position: Research Associate, Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Tietjen, Ian, 1997-2003
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Torello, Thomas, 1997-2003
Current Position: Assistant Teaching Professor of Biology, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, CT
Tsai, Bill, 1997-1999
Current Position: Corydon Ford Collegiate Professor, Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
Rihel, Jason, 1998-2004
Current Position: Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University College London, UK
Zakhary, Lisa, 2000-2005
Current Position: MD, PhD Assistant in Psychiatry and Instructor in Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, MA
Perak, Ross, 2000-2006
Current Position: Manager, Corporate Business Development & Strategy, Lundbeck Inc, Chicago IL
Yoon, Hayan, 2001-2006
Current Position: Lawyer, Associate, Ropes and Gray, Silicon Valley, CA
Gresser, Amy, 2001-2006
Current Position: Contractor, Dynamac Corp, lab of Dr. Sharmila Bhattacharya, NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA
Pont-Lezica, Lorena, 2001-2008
Current Position: Project manager at Essilor International
Chen, Cindy, 2002-2008
Current Position: Freelance writer and photographer, London, UK
Choi, Philip, 2003-2007
Current Position: Associate, Registered Patent Attorney, Foley Hoag LLP, Boston
Wu, Zheng, 2007-2014
Current Position: Joint postdoctoral fellow - Dr. Richard Axel and Dr. Michael Shadlen, Columbia University, NY
Perez, Julio, 2010-2016
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
Ho-Shing, Olivia, 2011-2019
Current Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Catherine Dulac, Harvard University
Marin-Rodriguez, Brenda, 2013-2019
Current Position: Medical School, Puerto Rico
Bintu, Bogdan 2013-2021
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UC San Diego
Vaughn, Eric 2017-2022
Current Position:
Molecular Scientist, FL84