Alumni

The majority of program graduates end up in academia or academic medicine, whereas others have chosen careers in scientific publishing or administration, pharmaceutical research, intellectual property law, and technology consulting. Our curriculum encourages students to explore career options that fit their interests and life goals through instruction in professional skills and by highlighting career opportunities throughout the graduate years.

Alumni List

Last Name: Hamilton
First Name: Stevie
Current Institution/Lab: TBD
Current Position: TBD
Grad. Year: 2024
Thesis: Novel regulation and functions of AMPK in developing and adult neurons

Last Name: Lindsey
First Name: John (Jack)
Current Institution/Lab: Anthropic
Current Position: Member of Technical Staff
Grad. Year: 2024
Thesis: Specialized neural circuits underlying learning and consolidation

Last Name: Goldberg
First Name: Alexander E. (Elie)
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Targeting Neuron-Microglia Interactions at the Margin of Glioma

Last Name: Griffey
First Name: Christopher
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Selective vulnerability of dopaminergic neurons in a novel model of Parkinson's disease

Last Name: Stackmann
First Name: Michelle
Current Institution/Lab: Stanford University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: A multiple Arc tagging system to uncover the organizational principles of multiple memories

Last Name: Chatila
First Name: Zena
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Uncovering Immune Dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease: Microglia, T cells, and the Blood Brain Barrier

Last Name: Pourmorady
First Name: Ariel
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: A symmetry breaking process proposes noncoding functions for olfactory receptor RNAs

Last Name: Abe
First Name: Taiga
Current Institution/Lab: Stanford University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: The role of model implementation in neuroscientific applications of machine learning

Last Name: Taliaferro
First Name: Joshua
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: A novel rodent radial maze task evokes distributed spatial working memory representations in the medial prefrontal cortex

Last Name: Tyulmankov
First Name: Danil
Current Institution/Lab: University of Southern California
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Synaptic plasticity and memory addressing in biological and artificial neural networks

Last Name: Coie
First Name: Lilian
Current Institution/Lab: New York Genome Center
Current Position: Staff Scientist (Grant Management)
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Modulation of sleep by the adhesion GPCR Cirl

Last Name: Petty
First Name: Gordon
Current Institution/Lab: TBD
Current Position: TBD
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Movement, arousal, and attention in the secondary sensory thalamus

Last Name: Park
First Name: Jung
Current Institution/Lab: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Functional role of cortical circuits in sensory-guided behaviors

Last Name: Cohanpour
First Name: Michael
Current Institution/Lab: Firmenich
Current Position: Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: The Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Curiosity

Last Name: Demaestri
First Name: Camila
Current Institution/Lab: Tufts University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Influecne of early lift adversity on amygdala-dependent threat reactivity: Exploring the role of sex and experience type on postnatal development and long-term outcomes

Last Name: Dixon
First Name: Rushell
Current Institution/Lab: TBD
Current Position: TBD
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Early life adversity causes fear generalization by impairing serotonergic modulation of the ventral dentate gyrus

Last Name: Singletary
First Name: Nicholas
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Neural representations of probabilistic inference and instrumental information-seeking

Last Name: Xie
First Name: Marjorie
Current Institution/Lab: New York Academy of Sciences and ASU School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Current Position: Postdoctoral Research Scholar in AI & Society
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Task-dependent optimal representations for cerebellar learning

Last Name: Sibener
First Name: Leslie
Current Institution/Lab: Rockefeller Univeristy, Rajasethupathy Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Thalamic contributions to motor learning and performance

Last Name: Applegate
First Name: Marissa
Current Institution/Lab: Yale University
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Food-caching birds as a model for systems neuroscience: behavioral, anatomical, and physiological foundations

Last Name: Lim
First Name: Sean
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Multiple population codes in ventral CA1 for anxiogenic stimuli and behavioral states

Last Name: Bowler
First Name: John (Jack)
Current Institution/Lab: University of Utah Health, Heys Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2023
Thesis: Direct cortical inputs to hippocampal area CA1 transmit complementary signals for goal-directed navigation

Last Name: Liao
First Name: Zhenrui
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Towards a neuroscience of stories: Metric space learning in the hippocampus

Last Name: Christenson
First Name: Matthias
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Behnia Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Mechanisms of color coding in the fly

Last Name: Cooney
First Name: Patricia
Current Institution/Lab: Russo Partners
Current Position: Account Coordinator
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: The Kinematic & Neuromuscular Basis of Drosophila Larval Escape

Last Name: Nejatbakhshesfahan
First Name: Mohammadamin (Amin)
Current Institution/Lab: Simons Foundation Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Neuroscience
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Causal Models of Neural Data

Last Name: Nwakeze
First Name: Chiamaka
Current Institution/Lab: Medical Student, Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Regional regulation of clustered protocadherin expression and function in the murine central and peripheral nervous system

Last Name: Panzarino
First Name: Alex
Current Institution/Lab: PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
Current Position: Experienced Associate
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: High-resolution characterization of dendritic spines in a mouse model of Fragile X Syndrome

Last Name: Randolph
First Name: Lisa
Current Institution/Lab: UCSF, Anna Molofsky Lab (IRACDA Scholars program)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Regulation of synapse number by Pumilio RNA-binding proteins

Last Name: Kato
First Name: Dan
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Multisensory Integration in Primary Somatosensory Cortex

Last Name: Stine
First Name: Gabriel
Current Institution/Lab: MIT McGovern Institute
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Neural mechanisms for forming and terminating a perceptual decision.

Last Name: Priestley
First Name: James
Current Institution/Lab: EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland; EPFL Life Sciences Independent Research (ELISIR) program
Current Position: Group leader & ELISIR scholar
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Dynamic and compressed memory coding in the hippocampus

Last Name: Datta
First Name: Malika
Current Institution/Lab: Yale Univeristy, Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: "Whole brain mapping reveals divergent changes in thedopaminergic system after chronic (R,S)-ketamine exposure"

Last Name: Portes
First Name: Jacob
Current Institution/Lab: MosaicML
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Flexible computation in neural circuits

Last Name: Paquelet
First Name: Grace
Current Institution/Lab: Weill Cornell Medicine, Conor Liston Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Single-cell activity and network properties of dorsal raphe serotonin neurons during emotional behaviors

Last Name: McGuirt
First Name: Avery
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Postnatal Maturation of the Striatal Cholinergic Interneuron

Last Name: Chen
First Name: Briana
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Novel mechanisms of enhancing resilience to stress

Last Name: Martyniuk
First Name: Kelly
Current Institution/Lab: Aglient Technologies
Current Position: R&D Scientist
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Dopamine D2 receptors regulate striatal circuit function and behavior

Last Name: Rabinovich
First Name: Rebecca
Current Institution/Lab: University of Utah
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Learning enhances encoding of time and temporal surprise in primary sensory cortex

Last Name: McGowan
First Name: Josephine
Current Institution/Lab: McLean Hospital of Harvard Medical School, William Carlezon Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Investigating (R,S)-ketamine as a prophylactic against stress-induced psychiatric disease

Last Name: Vancura
First Name: Bert
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Resident, Adult Neurology
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: Hippocampal Interneuron Dynamics Supporting Memory Encoding and Consolidation

Last Name: Pena
First Name: Francisco
Current Institution/Lab: Humankind Investments
Current Position: Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: The representation of food-cues in the amygdala during cue-induced eating

Last Name: Morgan
First Name: Ashlea
Current Institution/Lab: Chameleon Communications International
Current Position: Associate Scientific Director
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Serotonin signaling in the mPFC regulates cognitive & emotional behaviors

Last Name: Warren
First Name: Rick
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Cortical and cerebellar contributions to complex motor behavior in mice

Last Name: Boyle
First Name: Lara
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Social familarity and recollection in the CA2 region of the hippocampus

Last Name: Benoit
First Name: Laura
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Current Position: Medical Student
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: A sensitive period in the adolescent development of thalamo-prefrontal cortex circuit function and behavior

Last Name: Kohn
First Name: Jessica
Current Institution/Lab: McKinsey & Company
Current Position: Associate
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Stimulus and state-dependent filtering properties in neural inputs support motion vision computation in D. melanogaster

Last Name: Rolotti
First Name: Sebastian
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Neural circuit control of feature tuning in CA1 during spatial learning

Last Name: Zhuravleva
First Name: Viktoriya
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute
Current Position: Grant and Research Development Manager
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Stress-induced downregulation of Rab35 disrupts intracellular trafficking of AD-related proteins

Last Name: Nunnelly
First Name: Luke
Current Institution/Lab: Intouch Group
Current Position: Medical Strategist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: St18 specifics MGE lineage globus pallidus prototypic neurons

Last Name: Whitebirch
First Name: Alexander
Current Institution/Lab: University of Washington, Center for the Neurobiology of Addiction, Pain, and Emotion (NAPE)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Inhibitory-excitatory imbalance in hippocampal subfield cornu ammonis 2 circuitry in a mouse model of temporal lobe epilepsy

Last Name: Pierce
First Name: Georgia
Current Institution/Lab: Firmenich
Current Position: Systems Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Movement-related activity surpasses touch responses in secondary somatosensory thalamus

Last Name: Belarde
First Name: James
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia Medical School; and Synapsis (Health Humanities Journal)
Current Position: Medical Student; Writer
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Development of a mouse model of a novel thin lissencephaly variant

Last Name: Braine
First Name: Catherine
Current Institution/Lab: Arvinas
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Transforming Growth Factor Beta Signaling in motor neurons in a mouse model of ALS

Last Name: Chintamen
First Name: Sana
Current Institution/Lab: Cajal Neuroscience
Current Position: Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Microglia in the Subgranular Zone:A specialized immune population in the neuroogenic niche of the hippocampus

Last Name: Bittner
First Name: Sean
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Bridging data, theory, and experiment in computational neuroscience

Last Name: Zimnik
First Name: Andrew
Current Institution/Lab: Zuckermain Institute, Columbia Univeristy
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: The Generation of Complex Reaching Behavior

Last Name: Heath
First Name: Sarah
Current Institution/Lab: McKinsey & Company
Current Position: Associate
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Circuit Mechanisms Underlying Chromatic Encoding in Drosophila

Last Name: Sendhilnathan
First Name: Naveen
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs
Current Position: AR/VR Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: The role of the cerebellum in reinforcement learning

Last Name: Marshall
First Name: Najja
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Corticospinal Control of Motor Units

Last Name: Collier
First Name: Crystal
Current Institution/Lab: Georgetown University Hospital
Current Position: Resident, Neurology
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Applying High Pressure Focused Ultrasound to Develop a Mouse Model of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Intracerebral Hemorrhage (FUS-ICH)

Last Name: Berry
First Name: Jack
Current Institution/Lab: UCSF
Current Position: Resident, Psychiatry
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Distinct representatios of an anxiogenic environment across ventral hippocampal subregions and cell types

Last Name: Lanio
First Name: Marcos
Current Institution/Lab: Stony Brook
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2021
Thesis: Development of an Analysis Pipeline for Brain-Wide Memory Traces Following Fear Extinction

Last Name: Kanner
First Name: Scott
Current Institution/Lab: Stablix
Current Position: Co-founder, Associate Director of Platform Sciences
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Developing a ubiquitous nanobody-based toolkit for modulating ion channel expression in health and disease

Last Name: Lee
First Name: Melissa
Current Institution/Lab: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation
Current Position: Program Officer
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Glia in development and disorder

Last Name: Tsitliklis
First Name: Melina
Current Institution/Lab: Beacon Biosignals
Current Position: Neuroscientist
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Electrophysiology of human spatial navigation and memory

Last Name: Gilboa
First Name: Dar
Current Institution/Lab: Google
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Efficient nonconvex optimization in neural network training

Last Name: Clary
First Name: Rachel
Current Institution/Lab: University of California, Berkley
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Dynamics of touch receptor plasticity in the mammalian peripheral nervous system

Last Name: Odean
First Name: Naomi
Current Institution/Lab: Zuckermain Institute, Columbia Univeristy
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Information routing for decision making

Last Name: Kaufman
First Name: Alexandra
Current Institution/Lab: Regeneron
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scientist
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Noncanonical circuit members of reward signaling in the hippocampus

Last Name: Long
First Name: Laura
Current Institution/Lab: U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Current Position: Policy Advisor
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Characteriazation of visual word recognition using human intracranial neurophysiology

Last Name: Birdsall
First Name: Veronica
Current Institution/Lab: TRINITY Management Consulting
Current Position: Senior Consultant
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: KIF13A mediates the activity-dependent transport of ESCRT degradative pathway components in axons

Last Name: Batty
First Name: Eleanor (Ella)
Current Institution/Lab: Kempner Institute, Harvard
Current Position: Assistant Director for Educational Programs
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Nonlinear Approaches for Neural Encoding and Decoding

Last Name: Vaadia
First Name: Rebecca
Current Institution/Lab: Health Science Communications
Current Position: Senior Medical Director
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Development and Function of Proprioceptive Dendrite Territories in Drosophila Larvae

Last Name: Mishra
First Name: Neeli
Current Institution/Lab: Spotify
Current Position: Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Characterization of global brain state dynamics in Drosophila melanogaster

Last Name: Balough
First Name: Elizabeth
Current Institution/Lab: Beth Israel Hospital
Current Position: Resident, Internal Medicine
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Keeping Time: Parvalbumin Interneuron's Orchestration of Episodic Memory in Health and Disease

Last Name: Perez-Torres
First Name: Eduardo
Current Institution/Lab: Icahn School of Medicine at Mt Sinai
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2020
Thesis: Retromer Dysfunction in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Last Name: Goffer
First Name: Yossef
Current Institution/Lab: The Children's Hospital At Montefiore Medical Center
Current Position: House Staff Physician
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Genetic Analysis of the Levin Rat - a Rodent Model of Diet-Sensitive Obesity

Last Name: Sisti
First Name: Alexander
Current Institution/Lab: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: The Neural Basis of Sugar Preference

Last Name: Warriner
First Name: Claire
Current Institution/Lab: Facebook
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Motor Cortical Control of Antagonistic Muscle Concontraction

Last Name: Lieberman
First Name: Ori
Current Institution/Lab: UCSF
Current Position: Resident, Neurology
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Mechanisms of Basal Ganglia Development

Last Name: Stinson
First Name: Patrick
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Kriegeskorte Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Generative Modeling and Inference in Directred and Undirected Neural Networks

Last Name: Iascone
First Name: Daniel
Current Institution/Lab: University of Pennsylvania, Sehgal Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Global Synaptic Input Mapping of Cortical and Hippocampal Pyramidal Neurons

Last Name: Donegan
First Name: Macayla
Current Institution/Lab: Mindstrong
Current Position: Affecting Computing Scientist
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Coding of Social Novelty in the Hippocampal CA2 Region

Last Name: Vignovich
First Name: Martin
Current Institution/Lab: Salk Institute, Chory Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Finding a Neural Nexus for Odor and Taste Integration

Last Name: Platt
First Name: Maryann
Current Institution/Lab: Yale University, Gracheva Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Immune mechanisms of Brain Dysfunction in a Mouse Model of Autoimmune Encephalitis

Last Name: Russo
First Name: Abby
Current Institution/Lab: Ctrl Labs
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Understanding Neural Dynamics and Geometry of Population Activity in Motor Cortices

Last Name: Hoffman
First Name: Ben
Current Institution/Lab: University of California, San Francisco
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: The peripheral nervous system: From molecular mechanisms to non-invasive therapeutics

Last Name: Fishman
First Name: Zvi Hershel (Hershy)
Current Institution/Lab: TBD
Current Position: TBD
Grad. Year: 2019
Thesis: Taste Processing in the Brainstem

Last Name: Horta
First Name: Adan
Current Institution/Lab: Social Capital
Current Position: Portfolio Manager
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Cell type-specific interchromosomal interactions as a mechanism for transcirptional diversity

Last Name: Howard
First Name: Clare
Current Institution/Lab: Boston Children's Hospital
Current Position: Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Fellow
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Slow and Steady: Serotonergic Interneurons Modulate Drosophila Walking Behavior

Last Name: So
First Name: Nina
Current Institution/Lab: Pfizer
Current Position: Director, WRDM Operations and mRNA Scientific Planning
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Behavioral Significance and Neural Processing of Communication Vocalizations

Last Name: Fageiry
First Name: Samaher
Current Institution/Lab: University of Pennsylvania
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Mapping Cortical Connections with Spinal Circuits

Last Name: Wang
First Name: Peter
Current Institution/Lab: Stanford University, Deisseroth Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Order from Disorder: Imposing structure on odor representation during learning

Last Name: Chalif
First Name: Joshua
Current Institution/Lab: Brigham and Women's Hospital
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Ventral spinocerebellar Tract Neurons are essential for mammalian locomotion

Last Name: Cueva
First Name: Chris
Current Institution/Lab: MIT, Robert Yang lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Recurrent computation in brains and machines

Last Name: Qian
First Name: Sam
Current Institution/Lab: PlaceIQ
Current Position: Senior Data Scientst
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Internal tracheal sensory neuron wiring and function in Drosophila larvae

Last Name: Dempsey
First Name: Conor
Current Institution/Lab: TBD
Current Position: TBD
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Learning and generalization of sensory predictions in cerebellum-like structures

Last Name: Jenkins
First Name: Blair
Current Institution/Lab: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Current Position: Resident (Dermatology)
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Cellular and Molecular Mechansims of Mammalian Touch Receptor Patterning

Last Name: Shakman
First Name: Katie
Current Institution/Lab: Evidation Health
Current Position: Senior Health Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Cross compartmental modulation and plasticity in the Drosophila mushroom body

Last Name: Tsai
First Name: Joseph
Current Institution/Lab: University of Washington Medical Center
Current Position: Resident (Radiation Oncology)
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: SRGAP2 in the adult barrel cortex

Last Name: Aber
First Name: Etan
Current Institution/Lab: National Cancer Institute, NIH
Current Position: NIH Hematology Oncology Fellow
Grad. Year: 2018
Thesis: Myelin is remodeled cell-autonomously by oligodendroglial macroautophagy

Last Name: Youssef
First Name: Mary
Current Institution/Lab: UCLA Medical Center
Current Position: Resident (Psychiatry)
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Developmental manipulation of the hippocampal dentate gyrus to investigate effects of early life stress on adult dentate function

Last Name: Clark
First Name: Samuel
Current Institution/Lab: Terran Biosciences
Current Position: CEO and Founder
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Characterization striatal direct and indirect path neurons during motor learning and anxiety

Last Name: Kang
First Name: Yul
Current Institution/Lab: Queen Mary University of London, Dept of Biological and Experimental Psychology
Current Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Inferring the Decision Rule from the Choice and Speed

Last Name: Lindsay
First Name: Grace
Current Institution/Lab: New York University, Psychology and Data Science
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Modeling the Impact of Internal State on Sensory Processing

Last Name: Jimenez
First Name: Jessica
Current Institution/Lab: University of California, San Francisco, Neurology
Current Position: Resident (Neurology)
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Control of Anxiety-Related Behavior by the Ventral Hippocampus

Last Name: Dupre
First Name: Christophe
Current Institution/Lab: Harvard University, Engert Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Non-Overlapping Neural Networks in Hydra vulgaris

Last Name: Burgos
First Name: Anita
Current Institution/Lab: US House of Representatives
Current Position: Senior Health Policy Advisor
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Dissection of neural circuitry underlying nociception in drosophila larvae

Last Name: Meszaros
First Name: Jozsef
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiatry, Javitch Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Measuring dopamine release in an area of very low innervation

Last Name: Ebstein
First Name: Sarah
Current Institution/Lab: Regeneron
Current Position: Scientist
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Gain of function mechanisms of neurodegeneration in ALS

Last Name: Zaremba
First Name: Jeffrey
Current Institution/Lab: Zoox
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Hippocampal spatial codign during reward learning in Df(16) A mouse model of Schizophrenia

Last Name: Elsayed
First Name: Gamaleldin
Current Institution/Lab: Google Research, Brain Team
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Identification and Validation of Structures in Neural Population Responses

Last Name: Florence
First Name: Timothy
Current Institution/Lab: University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: Resident (Neurosurgery)
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Visual memory in Drosophila

Last Name: Seely
First Name: Jeff
Current Institution/Lab: Facebook
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2017
Thesis: Tensor Analysis and the dynamics of Motor Cortex

Last Name: Bolkan
First Name: Scott
Current Institution/Lab: Princeton University
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Thalamo-prefrontal substrates regulating cognitive behaviors in mice

Last Name: Clark
First Name: Abigail
Current Institution/Lab: San Diego Va Health Care Syst
Current Position: Psychiatrist
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: The function of dopamine D2 receptors in the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus

Last Name: Doobin
First Name: David
Current Institution/Lab: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Current Position: Fellow (Vitreoretinal Surgery)
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Genetic and Infectious Causes of Microcephaly: NDE1 Mutations and the Zika Virus

Last Name: Williamson
First Name: Rebecca
Current Institution/Lab: Partners HealthCare, Boston
Current Position: Resident Physician
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Ubiquitin-dependent trafficking of amyloid precursor protein and implications for Alzheimer's disease

Last Name: Sitko
First Name: Austen
Current Institution/Lab: Harvard University, Lisa Goodrich Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Organization of retinal ganglion cell axons in the developing mouse retinogeniculate pathway

Last Name: Hoang
First Name: Phuong
Current Institution/Lab: Stanford University Hospital
Current Position: Resident
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: From stem cells to circuits: modeling the specification and synaptogenesis of spinal inhibitory interneurons

Last Name: Kerk
First Name: John
Current Institution/Lab: Regeneron
Current Position: Scientist
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Diversification of C. elegans motor neuron identity via selective effector gene repression

Last Name: Danielson
First Name: Nathan
Current Institution/Lab: Facebook
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Functional diversity within hippocampal principal cell subpopulations

Last Name: Barkan
First Name: Charlotte
Current Institution/Lab: Reed College
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Evolution of vocal patterns: returning hindbrain circuits during specieis divergence

Last Name: Fox
First Name: Leora
Current Institution/Lab: Huntington's Diesease Society of America
Current Position: Asst. Director of Research and Patient Engagement
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Alfy mediates turnover of huntingtin and modifies pathogenesis in mouse

Last Name: Singla
First Name: Shobhit
Current Institution/Lab: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Current Position: Fellow (Epilepsy)
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: A Cerebellum-like Circuit in the Auditory System Cancels Self-generated Sounds

Last Name: Padilla
First Name: Nancy (Padilla-Coreano)
Current Institution/Lab: University of Florida, Dept of Neuroscience
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Direct ventral hippocampal-prefrontal input is required for anxiety-related neural activity and behavior

Last Name: Reardon
First Name: Thomas
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs)
Current Position: Director, Research Science
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Improved mono-synaptic tracing tools for mapping, monitoring, and manipulation of neural circuits.

Last Name: Gabitto
First Name: Mariano
Current Institution/Lab: Allen Institute for Brain Science
Current Position: Assistant Investigator
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Dissecting interneuron Diversity, One Cell Tyape at a Time.

Last Name: DePasquale
First Name: Brian
Current Institution/Lab: Princeton University, Department of Psychology Ctr. For Statistics & Machine Learning, Jonathan Pillow Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Methods for Building Network Models of Neural Circuits

Last Name: Mendelsohn
First Name: Alana
Current Institution/Lab: Private Practice
Current Position: Psychiatrist
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Specifying Neurons and Circuits for Limb Motor Control

Last Name: Zhang
First Name: Wujie
Current Institution/Lab: Eikon Therapeutics
Current Position: Data scientist
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Network Models of the Lateral Intraparietal Area

Last Name: Merel
First Name: Josh
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs)
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: New Perspective on Learning, Inference, and Control in Brains and Machines

Last Name: Kushnir
First Name: Lyudmila
Current Institution/Lab: École NormaleSupérieure, Paris, Sophie Deneve Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2016
Thesis: Neural classifiers with limited connectivity and local recurrent readouts

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Last Name: Stujenske
First Name: Joseph
Current Institution/Lab: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Current Position: Assistant Attending
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Prefrontal-Amygdala CIrcuits Regulating Fear and Safety

Last Name: Carvalho
First Name: Fernanda
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Medical Center
Current Position: Neurocritial Care Fellow
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: The Role of the Indirect Pathway in Motivated Behavior

Last Name: Baruni
First Name: Jalal
Current Institution/Lab: Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford Medicine
Current Position: Instructor
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Mechanisms of attention in visual cortex and the amygdala

Last Name: Russo
First Name: Marco
Current Institution/Lab: New York University
Current Position: Clinical Resrach Fellow
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: The Auto-Associative Circuitry of Olfactory Cortex

Last Name: Kolster
First Name: Rachel
Current Institution/Lab: The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Current Position: Associate Director, Neurology Global Medical Affairs
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Single-Molecule Imaging of Conformational Dynamics in a Neurotransmitter Transporter Homolog

Last Name: Rudnick. Noam
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Current Institution/Lab: Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Current Position: Retina Fellow
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Role of Autophagy in a Mouse Model of ALS

Last Name: Gore
First Name: Felicity
Current Institution/Lab: Stanford University, Bioengineering, Karl Deisseroth Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Neural Circuits Mediating Innate and Learned Behaviors

Last Name: Kaifosh
First Name: Patrick
Current Institution/Lab: Meta Reality Labs (CTRL-Labs)
Current Position: Director, Research Science
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Neural Circuit Mechanisms of Learning

Last Name: Machado
First Name: Timothy
Current Institution/Lab: University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Neuroscience
Current Position: Presidential Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Probing Circuits for Spinal Motor Control

Last Name: Scalise
First Name: Karina
Current Institution/Lab: HHMI Janelia Research Campus, Misha Ahrens Lab
Current Position: Visiting Scientist
Grad. Year: 2015
Thesis: Purkinje Cell Responses during Optomotor Behavior in Larval Zebrafish

Last Name: Brachman
First Name: Rebecca
Current Institution/Lab: Co-Founder of Sunrise, Social Outcomes Initiative, and 525 Bio
Current Position: Entrepreneur
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: A single injection of ketamine confers robust, long-term protection against stress-induced depressive-like behaviors

Last Name: Calabrese
First Name: Ana
Current Institution/Lab: Veeva Systems
Current Position: Senior Director, Data Science & Methodology
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Single cell and population coding principles in the songbird auditory cortex

Last Name: Hill
First Name: Alexis
Current Institution/Lab: College of the Holy Cross, Dept of Biology
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: The behavioral effects of increasing adult hippocampal neurogenesis

Last Name: Janas
First Name: Anna
Current Institution/Lab: Children's Hospital of Colorado
Current Position: Fellow Physician
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: A Stem Cell Model of the Motor Circuit Reveals Distinct Requirements of SMN for Motor Neuron Survival and Function

Last Name: Kennedy
First Name: Ann
Current Institution/Lab: Northwestern University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Representation and learning in cerebellum-like structures

Last Name: Kozberg
First Name: Mariel
Current Institution/Lab: Massachusetts General Hospital
Current Position: Vascular Neurologist and Neuroscientist
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: The Development of Neurovascular Coupling in the Postnatal Brain

Last Name: Lee
First Name: Justin C.
Current Institution/Lab: University of Southern California Medical Center
Current Position: Neurosurgery Resident
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Motor Pool Selectivity of Neuromuscular Degeneration in Type 1 Spinal Muscular Atrophy is Conserved between Human and Mouse

Last Name: Lovett-Barron
First Name: Matthew
Current Institution/Lab: University of California, San Diego
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Functional consequences of dendritic inhibition in the hippocampus

Last Name: Lyashchenko
First Name: Alexander
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Cell Biology. New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Physican
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Mechanisms of FUS-mediated Motor Neuron Degeneration in ALS

Last Name: Maldonado
First Name: Angel
Current Institution/Lab: Hospital Menonita Caguas, Puerto Rico
Current Position: Neurologist (Pediactric)
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: PDGFRb is a Specific Marker and Regulator of Adult Neural Stem Cells

Last Name: Pfau
First Name: David
Current Institution/Lab: DeepMind Limited Technologies, London
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Learning structure in time series for neuroscience and beyond

Last Name: Raza
First Name: Ali
Current Institution/Lab: Harvard University Medical School
Current Position: Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Modeling the structure-function relationship between retinal ganglion cells and visual field sensitivity and the changes due to glaucoma

Last Name: Requarth
First Name: Timothy
Current Institution/Lab: New York University (Lecturer in Science and Writing), Slate Magazine (Contributing Writer)
Current Position: Freelance Science Journalist, Lecturer in Science & Writing
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Mechanisms for predicting the sensory consequences of movement in a cerebellum-like circuit

Last Name: Schumacher
First Name: Joe
Current Institution/Lab: Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Current Position: Head of Undergraduate Training
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Effects of Developmental Vocal Learning on Neural Coding in the Songbird Auditory Cortex

Last Name: Stone
First Name: Elizabeth
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Medical Center, Dept of Pathology and Cell Biology. New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Current Position: Assistant Professor/Physician
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: Time to Eat: Links between Neuronal Function and Cellular Phagocytosis

Last Name: Zhang
First Name: Wanying
Current Institution/Lab: GoPro
Current Position: Senior Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2014
Thesis: In vivo dissection of long-range inputs to the rat barrel cortex

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