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.

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Current Position
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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: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Litwin-Kumar Lab
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Grad. Year: 2022
Thesis: The Kinematic & Neuromuscular Basis of Drosophila Larval Escape

Last Name: Nejatbakhshesfahan
First Name: Mohammadamin (Amin)
Current Institution/Lab: NYU, Alex Williams Lab (neurostatslab.org)
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: Group Leader, EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Switzerland, in the EPFL Life Sciences Independent Research (ELISIR) program, 1/2023
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: Columbia University, Tomer Lab
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: Columbia University Irving Medical Center
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: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute
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: Medical Student
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: Scientific Associate
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: Seattle - Institute TBD
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: Resident (Columbia?)
Current Position: Resident
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: DeepHealth
Current Position: Clinical Data Scientist
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: Simons Foundation
Current Position: Scientist
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: Associate 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

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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: UC Berkeley, Department of Bioengineering, Yartsev Lab
Current Position: Postdoc, Department of Bioengineering
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: Stanford Hospital
Current Position: Anesthesiologist
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

Last Name: Hitti
First Name: Frederick
Current Institution/Lab: UT Southwestern Medical Center, Departments of Neurological Surgery and Psychiatry
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: The hippocampal CA2 region is essential for Social memory

Last Name: O'Neill
First Name: Pia
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Salzman Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Long-range synchrony between medial prefrontal cortex, thalamus, and hippocampus underlies working memroy behavior in mice

Last Name: Peck
First Name: Ellen (now Duncan
Current Institution/Lab: NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Space and value in the primate Amygdala

Last Name: Ramirez
First Name: Alejandro
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institue, Salzman Lab
Current Position: Psychiatrist and Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: The sensitivity of barrel cortex to spatiotemporally comples stimuli

Last Name: Spiller
First Name: Krista
Current Institution/Lab: Janssen Inc.
Current Position: Senior Scientist
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Using the natural resistance of motor neuron subpopulations to identify therapeutic targets in ALS

Last Name: Ballagh
First Name: Irene
Current Institution/Lab: University of British Columbia, Dept of Zoology
Current Position: Lecturer
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Sex differences in the structure, function and regulation of vocal circuits in Xenopus

Last Name: Fink
First Name: Andrew
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Axel Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Exploring a behavioral role for presynaptic inhibition at spinal sensory-motor synapses

Last Name: Shrestha
First Name: Brikha
Current Institution/Lab: MM. 7/25/2022. Mass Eye and Ear / Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Faculty
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Role of the Ig superfamily member Basigin in neuronal dendrite morphogenesis

Last Name: Kato
First Name: Saul
Current Institution/Lab: Univeristy of California, San Francisco / Co-founder, CEO Herophilus
Current Position: Assistant Professor /CEO Herophilus
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Signal processing function and mechanism in sensory neurons of C. elegans

Last Name: Wayne
First Name: Gregory
Current Institution/Lab: DeepMind Limited Technologies, London
Current Position: Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Self-Modeling Neural Systems

Last Name: Peck
First Name: Chris
Current Institution/Lab: Facebook
Current Position: Research Data Scientist
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Space and Value in the Primate Amygdala and Basal Forebrain

Last Name: El-Amamy
First Name: Heather
Current Institution/Lab: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Current Position: Forensic Psychiatrist, Clinical Instructor
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Independent Effects of Paternal Age and Neuregulin1 Expression in Relation to Schizophrenia

Last Name: Rosen
First Name: Zev
Current Institution/Lab: Citadel
Current Position: Healthcare Investor
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Neuromodulatory Regulation of Hippocampal Neural Circuits

Last Name: Wang
First Name: Qing
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University Medical Center, Harkness Eye Institute
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Ophthalmology
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Neuronal Diversification Within the Retina: Generation of Crossed and Uncrossed Retinal Ganglion Cells

Last Name: Nikitchenko
First Name: Maxim
Current Institution/Lab: Duke University, Eva Naumann lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Inference of Neural Connectivity and Convergence Acceleration Methods

Last Name: Schoonover
First Name: Carl
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Axel Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Efficacy and dendritic organization of thalamocortical synapsesonto excitatory layer 4 neurons

Last Name: Constantinople
First Name: Christine
Current Institution/Lab: New York University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Neural Science
Grad. Year: 2013
Thesis: Subcortical Inputs Governing Cortical Network Activity

Last Name: (Saez) Schoer
First Name: Rebecca
Current Institution/Lab: Beyond Birth Support
Current Position: Owner/Manager (Postpartum & Fertility Doula/Breastfeeding Counselor)
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Representations of Relative Value Coding in the Amygdala and OFC

Last Name: Schneider
First Name: David
Current Institution/Lab: New York University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Neural coding of individual vocalizations in auditory scenes

Last Name: Umali
First Name: Michelle
Current Institution/Lab: Mount Sinai, Dept of Neuroscience, Haghighi Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Neural Correlates of Emotional and Cognitive Influences on Visual Search

Last Name: Ikiz
First Name: Burcin
Current Institution/Lab: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Current Position: Application Scientist
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Unraveling the molecular mechanism underlying the ALS-linked astrocyte toxicity to motor neurons

Last Name: Ramirez
First Name: Alexandro
Current Institution/Lab: SUNY Downstate, Dept of Physiology and Pharmacology
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Methods for Solving the Neural Code in High Dimensions

Last Name: Varodayan
First Name: Florence
Current Institution/Lab: SUNY Binghamton University
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Alcohol alters the expression of SNAREs andspontaneous GABA release via activation of the transcription factor HSF1

Last Name: Hinkle
First Name: William (Hal)
Current Institution/Lab: BamCore LLC (bamboo-based building products manufacturer), Sei Querce Vineyards. Also still working with Hinkle Charitable Foundation.
Current Position: CEO
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Neural Mechanisms Mediating the Effects of Food Cues and Acute Exercise: an fMRI and Functional Connectivity Investigation

Last Name: Lee
First Name: (Bobbi) Linda
Current Institution/Lab: ReadCube (Labtiva Inc.)
Current Position: Product Manager
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: SUMOylation in Synaptic Plasticity and Memory: Relevance to Alzheimer's disease

Last Name: Levy
First Name: Rebecca
Current Institution/Lab: Stanford Medicine
Current Position: Neurologist (Pediactric)
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Exploring the Role of RAPGEF6 in Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Last Name: Johnson-Kerner
First Name: Bethany
Current Institution/Lab: University of California, San Frnacisco
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: The role of gigaxonin in the regulation of intermediate filaments: a study using giant axonal neuropathy patient-derived iPS-MNs

Last Name: (Jensen) Peña
First Name: Catherine
Current Institution/Lab: Princeton University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Natural Variations in Maternal Care Program Development of Offspring Neuroendocrine and Reward Pathways

Last Name: Crouch
First Name: Elizabeth
Current Institution/Lab: UCSF School of Medicine, Pediatrics
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Physican
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Adult Neural Stem Cells and their Perivascular Niche

Last Name: Chau
First Name: Lily
Current Institution/Lab: Washington University School of MedicineSt. Louis, MO
Current Position: Fellow, Neurocritical care
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Modeling Alzheimer’s disease using cellular reprogramming technologies

Last Name: Oakley
First Name: Derek
Current Institution/Lab: Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Pathology
Current Position: Instructor in Pathology
Grad. Year: 2012
Thesis: Human stem cells for modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease mechanisms and modifiers

Last Name: Gray
First Name: Neil
Current Institution/Lab: University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine
Current Position: Assistant Professor in Psychiatry
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: The Role of the Serotonergic System in the Development and Treatment of Affective Disorders

Last Name: Rubin
First Name: Daniel
Current Institution/Lab: Massachusetts General Hospital
Current Position: Assistant in Neurology, Instructor in Neurology
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: A Novel Circuit Model of Normalization and Contextual Modulation in Primary Visual Cortex

Last Name: Rajasethupathy
First Name: Priya
Current Institution/Lab: Rockefeller Univeristy
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Novel Small-RNA Mediated Gene-Regulatory Mechanisms for Long-Term Memory

Last Name: Corty
First Name: Megan
Current Institution/Lab: Oregon Health & Science University, Freeman Lab
Current Position: Postdoc
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Transcriptional control of somatosensory neuron diversification in Drosophila

Last Name: Sosulski
First Name: Dara
Current Institution/Lab: HSBC
Current Position: Director, Head of Quant Risk and COO, Global Markets
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Wired for smell: Structure and function in the mouse olfactory system

Last Name: Croft
First Name: Gist
Current Institution/Lab: The New York Stem Cell Foundation Research Institute
Current Position: Senior Principal Investigator
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Controlling the Subtype Identity of Human Stem Cell Derived Motor Neurons

Last Name: Babadi
First Name: Baktash
Current Institution/Lab: Massachusetts General Hospital
Current Position: Instructor in Psychiatry
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Network Structures Arising from Spike-Timing Dependent Plasticity

Last Name: Sippy
First Name: Tanya
Current Institution/Lab: NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Dept of Psychiatry, Dept of Neuroscience and Physiology
Current Position: Assistant Professor
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Asynchronous Inhibition in Neocortical Microcircuits

Last Name: Schaffer
First Name: Evan
Current Institution/Lab: Columbia University, Zuckerman Institute, Axel Lab
Current Position: Associate Research Scientist
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Transient Dynamics in Neural Networks

Last Name: Remole
First Name: Kelley
Current Institution/Lab: Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University
Current Position: Managing Director
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Anatomical and Functional Characterization of the Ventral Hippocampus in a Rodent Model of Schizophrenia Neuropathology

Last Name: Falkner
First Name: Annegret
Current Institution/Lab: Princeton University
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Competition between Visual Stimuli in the Monkey Parietal Cortex

Last Name: Colaco
First Name: Nalini
Current Institution/Lab: Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Physican
Grad. Year: 2011
Thesis: Specific Connectivity and Molecular Diversity of Mouse Rubrospinal Neurons

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