Welcome to the HBI Community Directory!

Harvard is home to hundreds of neuroscience researchers, ranging from the undergraduate level to the faculty level, working on almost every imaginable aspect of nervous system development, structure, and function—as well as a wide range of neurologic and psychiatric conditions. This neuro community is spread out geographically and administratively, across many different departments, centers, campuses and institutions. The HBI Community Directory aims to connect individuals across all of these domains.

Join today! All students, fellows, faculty, and staff conducting neuroscience research or working to support neuroscience researchers are invited to share a profile. Lab heads may also join our HBI Lab Directory.

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Featured Member:

Luis Hernandez-Nunez

Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Luis Hernandez-Nunez is a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar, a Branco Weiss fellow, and a Burroughs Wellcome CASI fellow at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, where he leads the Zebrafish Brain-Body Circuits research group. Luis’ research is focused on the circuit mechanisms...

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Saman Abbaspoor

Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Neurobiology

I completed my PhD in Neuroscience under the guidance of Dr. Kari Hoffman at Vanderbilt University, where I focused on collecting wirelessly recorded neural activity from freely-behaving macaques. My research concentrated on the hippocampus and extrahippocampal areas, investigating the neural...

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Ana Rita Agra de Almeida Quadros

Research Fellow / Lab of Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne, Department of Neurology

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Jason Alipio

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Amar Sahay

I am a postdoctoral fellow in Amar Sahay’s lab at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. My research focus is investigating hippocampal circuit and plasticity mechanisms in memory processing in health and disease. I earned my Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of...

Amirah Anderson

Technical Research Assistant II / Lab of Dennis Selkoe, MD

I am a research assistant in the Selkoe lab where we optimize biochemical assays to study blood based biomarkers for Alzheimer’s Disease (e.g. amyloid beta and tau species). During my undergraduate (at Spelman College) and graduate training (at Morehouse School of Medicine) I used...

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Noelia Anton Bolanos

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Paola Arlotta, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

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Marcelo Armendariz

Research Fellow / Department of Neurosurgery

My research combines intracranial neurophysiological recordings in the human brain, behavioral experiments, and machine learning to investigate the neural mechanisms and computational principles of human brain...

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Arnold Caleb Asiimwe

Visiting Student / Department of Biomedical Informatics

I am a visiting student from Columbia University, currently working with Harvard Medical School’s Department of Biomedical Informatics. My research focuses on medical artificial intelligence applications, particularly in imaging. Additionally, I am interested in leveraging computer vision...

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Dániel Barabási

Graduate Student / Lab of Florian Engert, Department of Biophysics

I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program with Florian Engert, researching innateness in neurodevelopment and AI...

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Omer Barkai

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Clifford Woolf, Department of Neurobiology

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Isle Bastille

Graduate Student / Lab of Lisa Goodrich, Department of Neurobiology

I am fascinated by how cells process genetic information to develop specialized machinery for their function. For my thesis work, I am studying how spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) acquire and maintain specific properties to accurately convey complex auditory information from the cochlea to the...

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Parizad Bilimoria

Associate Director / Harvard Brain Science Initiative

I run grant programs, communications efforts and scientific and social programming for the Harvard Brain Science Initiative (HBI). The things I most enjoy about this work are the community-building, the chance to learn about new scientific discoveries, and the opportunity to interact with...

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Richard Born

Professor / Born/Neurobiology/PiN

I am currently a Professor of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School and was Director of the Harvard PhD Program in Neuroscience from 2009 to 2014. I was raised in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and attended DePauw University where I received a B.A. in Chemistry in 1983. I attended Harvard...

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Young Cha

Instructor / Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory

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Siwei Chen

Doctor / Sundari Chetty Lab, CRM, MGH

I am a Postdoc of Chetty Lab. We focus on identifying promising new therapeutic targets for intervention and mitigation of symptoms in neurodevelopmental disorders, such as autism spectra disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia...

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Joanna Christodoulou

Associate Professor / MGH Institute of Health Professions

I lead the Brain, Education, and Mind (BEAM) Lab, conducting research on the brain and behavior links underlying reading development, difficulty, and intervention. My lab addresses topics at the intersection of educational, clinical, and research contexts. My team’s research includes...

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Alexander Cohen

Assistant Professor / Laboratory of Translational Neuroimaging, Department of Neurology

I am a physician-scientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I received my B.A. in Biology and Biomedical Physics and my M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis where I...

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Ivan Coto Hernandez

Instructor in Radiology / Institute for Innovation in Imaging/ Radiology department/ Mass. General Hospital

I am Instructor in Radiology at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital. I studied Nuclear Physics in Cuba and received my Master Degree in 2011. My research interest is focused on the development of imaging tools for neuroscience research. During my Ph.D., I was trained in...

Ya'el Courtney

Graduate Student / Lab of William Robertson, Departmet of Immunology and Rheumatology

I started in Harvard’s PhD Program in Neuroscience in 2019. I work with Maria Lehtinen at Boston Children’s Hospital, where we study cerebrospinal fluid, the choroid plexus, and their roles in development and disease. I am specifically excited about the mechanisms by which the choroid...

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Bruna da Silveira Paulsen

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Paola Arlotta, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

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Elisabetta C. del Re

Staff Scientist; Assistant Professor / Department Psychiatry

I am a professor of psychiatry with multidisciplinary training in basic science, mental health, neuroimaging, including electrophysiology, and genetics. I work at Harvard Medical School and am Principal Investigator of NIMH funded research. My interest is in understanding the manifestations of...

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Shailendra Dhakal

Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Lab of Clotilde Lagier-Tourenne

I am a postdoctoral research fellow specializing in understanding the role of RNA-binding proteins in various neurodegenerative diseases within the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I earned my undergraduate degree in Pharmacy from Tribhuvan...

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Daniela Di Bella

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Paula Arlotta, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

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Mengyuan Ding

Graduate Student / Harvard Medical School Master of Medical Sciences in Clinical Investigation Program

Hi, I’m a neurologist from Nanjing, China and my science interest lies in computational neuroscience and data visualization, so on and so forth. My current project at BWH is following Dr. Michael Fox and Dr.Michael Ferguson on amnesia analysis using lesion network mapping technology. I am...

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Hayley Dorfman

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Elizabeth Phelps/Department of Psychology

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Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Susan Dymecki, Department of Genetics

I am originally from Mexico and did my undergrad at UNAM in Mexico City. It was during those initial lab experiences that I first discovered electrophysiology and became fascinated by ion channels and by the intricate ways they function within neurons to allow them to respond to inputs, encode...

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Julia Espinosa

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Erin Hecht, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology

I received my B.S. in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan, a M.S. in Animal Bioscience from the University of Guelph, and subsequently an M.A./Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Toronto. I am an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow working on the Canine Brains Project in Erin...

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Nadine Gaab

Associate Professor / Harvard Graduate School of Education

Nadine Gaab is an associate professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on typical and atypical learning trajectories from infancy to adolescence with a special emphasis on language, reading and literacy development and the role of the environment in...

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Rachelle Gaudet

Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I grew up in Québec, Canada, and obtained a B.Sc. in Biochemistry from Université de Montréal, a PhD in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in structural biology at Harvard University. My interests are in mechanisms of transport...

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Stanley Gill

Graduate Student / Lab of Lee Rubin, Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology

I’m a graduate student formerly of the Kevin Eggan lab now finishing my PhD studies with Lee Rubin’s lab. I was originally a west coast person born in California and raised in Arizona before coming to Boston for undergrad at MIT, where I got my degree in bioengineering in 2014....

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Alex Goddard

Director, Academic Innovation / Takeda Pharmaceuticals

I’m a strategic and creative pharma R&D leader, aiming to identify and develop novel treatments for neurological and rare diseases through partnership and...

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Erica Greenberg

Director of Pediatric Psychiatry OCD and Tic Disorders Program / Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

I am the Director of the Pediatric Psychiatry OCD and Tic Disorders at Mass General, part of the Center for OCD and Related Disorders (CORD) and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry division. I engage in clinical work, clinical research, and directing this program which serves >500 children and...

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Associate Professor / F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and BCH Department of Otolaryngology

I was born in France and moved to the United States in Fall of 1999. My passion for inner ear research began as an undergraduate student at the University of Montpellier (France) when I first saw a sensory hair cell under the microscope! During my graduate and post-graduate studies, I was...

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Xiaomeng Han

Graduate Student / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I use correlated light and electron microscopy to study neuronal...

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Jay Hennig

Postdoctoral Fellow / Gershman Lab, Psychology Department

I am interested in how populations of neurons interact to perceive the world and drive behavior, a topic I approach using techniques from statistics and machine learning. Recently, I have been focused on understanding how animals learn to predict and obtain reward, using models involving...

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Luis Hernandez-Nunez

Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Luis Hernandez-Nunez is a Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholar, a Branco Weiss fellow, and a Burroughs Wellcome CASI fellow at the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, where he leads the Zebrafish Brain-Body Circuits research group. Luis’ research is focused on the circuit...

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Dianna Hidalgo

Graduate Student / Program in Neuroscience

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Barbara Hollunder

Graduate Student / Network Stimulation Laboratory

I am currently finalizing my Ph.D. within the Network Stimulation Lab, led by Andreas Horn, in the Department of Neurology at Charité University Medicine Berlin. Besides, I am also a fellow of the Einstein Center for Neurosciences and the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. Priorly, I earned a...

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Laura Holsen

Associate Professor of Psychiatry / Departments of Medicine (Women's Health) and Psychiatry

I am a clinical neuroscientist working at the intersection of eating behaviors, hormones, and brain. Work in my lab focuses on the interaction between energy balance, mood, and reward using multimodal neuroimaging and neuroendocrine assessment in eating disorders and obesity. Our studies have...

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Andreas Horn

Associate Professor of Neurology / Department of Neurology, Brigham & Women's Hospital

I am interested in connectivity and causality in the brain, the human connectome, and its structure-function relationship. As a clinical case of connectomics, I study effects of deep brain stimulation on aberrant circuitries that lead to brain disorders, such as Parkinson’s Disease,...

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M. Arafat Hussain

Research Fellow / Image, Informatics & Intelligence (i3) Research Lab, Boston Children's Hospital

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging Developmental Science Center at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. My research interests lie in machine/deep learning and its application to medical image analysis. I previously worked as a Postdoctoral...

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Yasuko Isoe

Postdoctoral Fellow / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I studied biology and neuroscience in University of Tokyo in Japan. In my PhD, I worked on the study of brain anatomy and social behavior in adult medaka fish. Afterwards, I joined the Florian Engert lab at Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow. I am interested in the evolutionary...

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Ismael Izquierdo

Postdoc / Lab of Tom Schwarz

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Rishab Jain

Student Researcher / Harvard College

I’m an undergraduate student studying Neuroscience at Harvard College. My interests lie in using artificial intelligence models and human neuronal data to better understand...

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Charles Jennings

Executive Director / BWH Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and the Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases

I’m the Executive Director of the BWH Program for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience and the Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases. I oversee the Neurotechnology Studio, a core facility that’s open to both internal and external users, and various other internal and outward-facing programs...

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Jill Jones

Graduate Student / Maria Lehtinen, Dept of Pathology, Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program

Hi! I am a third-year student in the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program and currently a G1 in PiN. I joined Maria Lehtinen’s lab and am really interested in all things neurodevelopment, with a particular focus on pediatric brain cancers. Before moving to Boston, I studied Neuroscience,...

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Meher Juttukonda

Assistant Professor / Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

I currently lead the Cerebrovascular Aging and Spin Labeling (CASL) laboratory at MGH. I have a broad background in biomedical engineering and imaging physics, with specific training in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) acquisition methods and processing approaches, their relevance to human...

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David Kang

Research Fellow / Lab of Christopher Walsh

I am interested in studying autism and neurodevelopmental...

Harris Kaplan

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Catherine Dulac, Department of Cellular Biology

As a postdoctoral fellow in Catherine Dulac’s lab, I am tracking developmental transitions in mammalian brain and behavior. Focusing on the hypothalamus, I am charting the emergence of transcriptional cell-type identities, spontaneous and stimulus-evoked neuronal activity patterns, and...

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Min Jae Kim

Research Assistant / Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Hyunyong (Howard) Koh

Research Fellow / Lab of Annapurna Poduri, Epilepsy Genetics Program, Roberts Program

Hi, I am Hyunyong (Howard), a postdoc fellow in Epilepsy Genetics Program (Poduri Lab) and Roberts Program at Boston Children’s Hospital. I am working on human genetics in children having epileptic seizures and sudden death, and now trying to see the biology and pathogenesis of...

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Charalampia (Chara) Koutsioumpa

Graduate Student / Lab of David Ginty, Department of Neurobiology

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Jan Kufer

Research Fellow / Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging

I am currently a Research Fellow in the Cerebrovascular Aging and Spin Labeling (CASL) laboratory at MGH. My research is focused on the development of novel magnetic resonance imaging methods to quantify cerebral hemodynamics and oxygen metabolism. I am interested in applying these techniques...

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Naina Kurup

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Xiaowei Zhuang, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Valentina Lagomarsino

Graduate Student / Lab of Meenakshi Rao, F.M Kirby Neurobiology Center

The goal of my thesis work is to understand how sex hormones signal to enteric neurons to regulate behaviors, including GI motility and visceral pain. Moreover, I am interested in understanding mirobe-neuron crosstalk in the gut by examining how microbes can regulate levels of circulating sex...

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Lucy Lai

Graduate Student / Lab of Samuel Gershman, Department of Psychology

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Alyssa Larios

Graduate Student / Lab of Chenghua Gu, Department of Neurobiology

After growing up in sunny Southern California and moving to Chicago for my undergraduate studies, I began conducting research in a neuroscience lab at Northwestern. The lab specialized in optical recordings of single neurons during learning in rodents. Now, my research in the Gu lab at Harvard...

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Emma Laurent

Graduate Student / Lab of Elizabeth Phelps, Department of Psychology

I am a PhD student in the Phelps Lab at Harvard University supported by a National Science Foundation (NSF) fellowship. My research focuses on understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of memory. I use modern neuroimaging techniques to investigate how representations of memory during...

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Ralph Lawton

MD/PhD Student / Health Policy (Economics)

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Sara Lazar

Associate Professor / Meditation Research Lab

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JoonHyuk Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Wade Regehr, Department of Neurobiology

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Wade Regehr who is primarily interested in emotion, cognition, and motor behavior. In mice I use the following techniques:: – in-vivo neural recording (unit recording, calcium imaging) – Behavioral tests (Measure for sociability,...

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Kathryn Lehigh

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Susan Dymecki, Department of Genetics

I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. I received my BS in Neurobiology from Georgetown University where I worked on thalamic development. I continued studying neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University, completing my dissertation work in the...

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Zhengzheng Sophia Liang

Postdoctoral Fellow / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I am interested in elucidating the molecular basis of natural behavior using technologies that integrating genomics and...

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Einat Liebenthal

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry / Functional Neuroimaging & Bioinformatics Lab

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Su Min Lim

Instructor / Department of Neurology

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Dingchang Lin

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Adam Cohen, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

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Albert Lin

Postdoctoral Fellow / Princeton Neuroscience Institute & Center for the Physics of Biological Function

I received my A.B. in Physics with a certificate in Biophysics from Princeton University, and my Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University. I am interested in how brains encode sensory information and generate behavior, and how anatomical connectomes constrain experimentally observed whole-brain...

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Jack Lindsay

PhD Student / Ingber Lab/Bioengineering/SEAS

I’m a PhD student studying the gut-brain axis through tissue...

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Xiaofeng Liu

Assistant Professor / Department of Radiology

My research interests focus on combining neuroimaging, electrophysiology, and AI to advance the diagnosis, prognosis, and therapeutic interventions for e.g. Alzheimer’s Disease, Schizophrenia, and Glioblastoma. I also investigate the neural basis of human intelligence, as a way to inspire...

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Corena Loeb

Grauduate student / Speech and Hearing, Bioscience and Technology

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Juan Martinez-Francois

Lecturer on Neuroscience / Lab of Gary Yellen, Department of Neurobiology

I study the molecular mechanisms linking metabolism and neuronal excitability with the hope of understanding, and possibly treating, epilepsy. I have been doing electrophysiology for over 20 years and also enjoy live imaging of fluorescent...

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Ivy Mason

Postdoctoral Fellow / Medical Chronobiology Program

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School in the Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA and a Teaching Fellow at Harvard College in Cambridge, MA. I am training under Dr. Frank...

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Paul Masset

Postdoctoral Fellow / Labs of Venkatesh Murthy, Naoshige Uchida and Cengiz Pehlevan

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Steven Meisler

Graduate Student / Lab of John Gabrieli/HMS Program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology

I am a PhD candidate in John Gabrieli’s lab at MIT through HMS’s program in Speech and Hearing Bioscience Technology. I use multimodal MRI to study how properties of gray and white matter relate to language abilities, disabilities, and improvement. I also perform in MIT’s jazz...

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Alan Mejia Maza

Postdoctoral Fellow / Neurology

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Dylan Meyer

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Gary Yellen, Department of Neurobiology

I am a biomedical neuroscientist motivated to develop novel therapeutics and technologies that benefit disease...

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Pranav Misra

PhD student / Lab of Gabriel Kreiman, Program in Biophysics

I am a student advised by Prof. Kreiman. I work on questions of language and vision in the human brain. Outside the lab, I am into football, cooking, and playing the...

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Karolina Mizeracka

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Max Heiman, Division of Genetics and Genomics

I am a developmental biologist interested in the relationship between lineage and cell fate using the model system C....

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Alok Nath Mohapatra

Research Fellow / Lab of Amar Sahay

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Cynthia Moncada Reid

Graduate Student / Lab of Lisa Goodrich, Department of Neurobiology

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Engie Mostafa

Research Assistant II & Co-Lab Manager / Lab of Jonathan Lipton, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center

Hello! I joined the Lipton Lab in July 2022 after graduating from UC Berkeley with a BA in Molecular and Cell Biology, with an emphasis in immunology and pathogenesis, and a double minor in Global Studies and Politics, Philosophy, and Law. At the Lipton Lab, I investigate the non-canonical...

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Sam Murdock

Clinical Research Coordinator / Alumni / Lab of Randy Buckner, Center for Brain Science; Lab of Brad Dickerson, MGH Neurology

I am a Clinical Research Coordinator at the MGH Frontotemporal Disorders Unit (Dickerson Lab) and a graduate of Harvard College. Previously, I completed thesis research with the departments of Neuroscience and Philosophy at the Buckner Lab, Center for Brain Science. I am also a musician and...

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Celia Muto

Administrative & Staff Assistant / Neurobiology Imaging Facility and the Harvard Brain Science Initiative

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Sivapratha Nagappan-Chettiar

Research Fellow / Lab of Hisashi Umemori

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Leigh Needleman

Executive Director / Rowland Institute at Harvard

I’m currently the Executive Director of the Rowland Institute at...

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Ayush Noori

Undergraduate Student / Department of Neurology

I am a student at Harvard College concentrating in computational neuroscience and an undergraduate researcher in the Institute for Neurodegenerative Disease at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. I am interested in leveraging...

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Olubusola Olukoya

Graduate Student / Lab of Lisa Goodrich, Department of Neurobiology

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Lauren Orefice

Assistant Professor / Departments of Genetics (HMS) and Molecular Biology (MGH)

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Alpen Ortug

Research Fellow / Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology

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Javiera Oyarzun

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Elizabeth Phelps, Department of Psychology

My research investigates the bidirectional communication between the gut microbiota and the brain, focusing on how gut microbial composition is associated with individual differences in memory, emotional learning, mood, and anxiety in adult humans. I also explore the gut microbiota as an...

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Jeongho Park

Research Associate / Research Associate, Lab of Talia Konkle

I’m a research associate in Talia Konkle’s lab in the Psychology Department. Before joining the lab, I received my Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University, working with Dr. Soojin Park and Dr. Michael McCloskey. My overarching research interests center around...

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Jonah Pearl

Graduate Student / Lab of Sandeep Robert Datta, Department of Neurobiology

I’m a student in the Program in Neuroscience studying how olfactory information is integrated with behavior in the Datta Lab. Outside of science I love to...

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Paula Pflitsch

Graduate Student / Lab of Florian Engert, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I am a neuroscience masters student at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg, Germany. Currently I am conducting research in Florian Engert’s lab where I investigate the effect of sleep-deprivation on sensory-motor decision making in larval...

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Aja Pragana

Research Assistant / Lab of Maria Lehtinen, Department of Pathology

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Jacob Prince

PhD Candidate / Vision Sciences Lab, Dept. of Psychology

I work at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence, with a goal of understanding how the visual system transforms the rich sensory content of our world into the set of neural representations that support the array of visual behaviors we perform each day – from object...

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Francisco Quintana

Professor of Neurology / Quintana Lab/Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases/Dept. of Neurology/Brigham and Women's Hospital

I am a Professor of Neurology at the Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and an Associate Member at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. I am also the President of the International Society of Neuro Immunology (ISNI). I...

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Yakeel Quiroz

Director, Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab / Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology

My research interests include brain imaging, genomics, early detection and preclinical biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias. I’m the principal investigator of the Colombia-Boston (COLBOS) longitudinal biomarker study of autosomal-dominant Alzheimer’s disease, which...

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Oscar Daniel Ramirez Plascencia

Research Fellow / Department of Neurology

I am a Mexican neuroscientist working in circuitry and behavioral neuroscience in Dr. Cliff Saper Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard Medical School. My work focused in understanding the sleep and circadian regulation, neuronal circuitries involved from cellular to system...

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Chen Ran

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Stephen Liberles, Department of Cell Biology

I am a postdoc in Dr. Stephen Liberles’ Lab, studying the neural coding of internal senses (satiety, hunger, visceral pain, nausea, hypoxia, etc) in the brain. Previously, I did my undergraduate research with Dr. Guosong Liu (Tsinghua University) on learning and memory, psychiatric...

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Jasmine Reggiani

Graduate Student / Labs of Mark Andermann and Chinfei Chen

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Wisam Reid

Graduate Student / Lab of Anne Takesian / SHBT, Harvard Division of Medical Sciences

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William Renthal

Assistant Professor of Neurology / Department of Neurology

Chronic pain and headache disorders are two leading causes of disability world-wide. Improving treatments for these conditions is a major focus of my lab as well as my clinical practice as a neurologist. The experience of pain begins with specialized peripheral sensory neurons (nociceptors)...

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Mark Richardson

Director of Functional Neurosurgery / Brain Modulation Lab/MGH Neurosurgery

I am a neurosurgeon-neuroscientist who directs the Brain Modulation Lab at MGH, focused on human intracranial neuroscience. I have a busy clinical practice treating patients with epilepsy, movement disorders, and severe psychiatric disease. My OR playlist can be found here:...

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Alexandra Rodman

Postdoctoral Research Fellow / Stress and Development Lab, Psychology

I am an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at Northeastern University starting July 2023. I completed my PhD (Psychology, Clinical Science) and Postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. I completed my clinical internship...

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Gabriel Romero

Postdoctoral Fellow / Postdoctoral Fellow, Lab of Lisa Goodrich

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Olivia Rose

Visiting Doctoral Student / Lab of Carlos Ponce, Department of Neurobiology

I’m a Ph.D. candidate in Neuroscience in the lab of Dr. Carlos Ponce, where we use cutting-edge machine learning and electrophysiology to elucidate the neural code for vision in the primate cortex. Where our lab has traditionally studied neurons along the ventral visual stream, my...

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Abhishek Sampath Kumar

Postdoctoral fellow / Lab of Paola Arlotta, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

From the inception of a single-cell zygote to the intricate development of a multifaceted organism, the profound question of cellular differentiation has driven my scientific pursuit. Transitioning from an undergraduate degree in Engineering specializing in Genetics to a Ph.D. in Genome...

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Joshua Sanes

Professor / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology/Center for Brain Science

How are complex neural circuits assembled in young animals? And how do they process information in adults? The retina may be the first part of the mammalian brain for which satisfactory answers to these questions can be obtained.My lab therefore studies the assembly and function of neural...

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Jonathan Schneiderman

Associate Director of Neuroscience Research / Department of Neurobiology

I serve as the Associate Director of Research in the Neuroscience Department at Harvard Medical...

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Luke Schwerdtfeger

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Howard Weiner, Department of Neurology

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Howard Weiner studying the role of intestinal neural-immune signaling in neurodegenerative diseases like multiple...

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Haozhe Shan

Graduate Student / Lab of Haim Sompolinsky, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

I am broadly interested in developing theories that help us understand how the brain processes and stores information about the world. I am a graduate student in the Program in Neuroscience...

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Amy Shepherd

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Meenakshi Rao, F.M Kirby Neurobiology Center

I’m Amy Shepherd, and I am a postdoc in Meena Rao’s lab at BCH. I’m originally from New Zealand, and I did my PhD at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health in the University of Melbourne in Australia, assessing the cognition of Alzheimer’s mouse models...

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Yu-Tzu Shih

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Amar Sahay

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Austen Sitko

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Lisa Goodrich/Department of Neurobiology

I am interested in how the exquisite complexity of neural circuitry arises during development – and how early errors in that wiring, even if relatively subtle, can have potentially profound and lasting effects on brain function. Using molecular genetics and neuroanatomical approaches, I am...

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Summer Smentek

Undergraduate Researcher / Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

I am a student at Harvard College concentrating in Integrative Biology with a secondary in Mind Brain Behavior, and an undergraduate researcher in the Davies Lab. Previously, I worked in the Hoekstra Lab, where I investigated the likely evolutionary history of complex burrowing behavior in deer...

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Sofia Soares

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Christopher Harvey, Department of Neurobiology

I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Harvey lab where I combine large-scale two-photon calcium imaging with novel behavioral paradigms to understand how information arises and is maintained across the cortex during learning. I completed my PhD in Joseph Paton’s lab at the Champalimaud Centre...

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Dustin Tillman

Graduate Student / Lab of Jeffrey Macklis, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

I grew up in Davis, California before attending Washington University in St. Louis as an undergraduate. There, I majored in biology and chemistry while characterizing the proteins that perform cytochrome c biogenesis with Robert Kranz. I brought my love of proteins with me to the Macklis Lab,...

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Claudio Toro Serey

Postdoctoral Fellow / Laboratory of Functional Neuroanatomy

I’m a postdoctoral fellow in Suzanne Haber’s Neuroanatomy lab at McLean. I grew up in Santiago, Chile, and did my PhD with Joseph T. McGuire at Boston University. My goal is to precisely characterize the organization of brain networks implicated in cost-benefit evaluations, with...

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George Touloumes

Graduate Student / Labs of Stelios Smirnakis and Rob Howe / School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

I am a PhD student from the Biogengineering program at Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). I am co-advised by Dr. Stelios Smirnakis (Harvard Medical School) and Dr. Rob Howe (Harvard SEAS). My research interests span several areas of computational...

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Ted Turesky

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Nadine Gaab, Graduate School of Education

My research focuses on how poverty — and the biological and psychosocial hazards associated with it — affects brain development using structural and functional MRI techniques. Prior to this, I was a doctoral student at Georgetown University. Outside of lab, I am involved in efforts related...

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Hannah Twarkowski

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Amar Sahay, Harvard Stem Cell Institute

Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in Amar Sahay´s lab. I am a trained in vivo electrophysiologist and dared to join a rather molecular lab at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical School to learn the joy of circuit hacking. I have been performing in vivo imaging as well as...

Kelsey Tyssowski

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Hopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

I am a postdoc in the Hoekstra lab in the Molecular and Cellular Biology/Organismic and Evolutionary Biology departments. I compare different subspecies of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) with dramatic, innate behavioral differences: mice that evolved in forests, which are good at climbing,...

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Suhas Vijayakumar

Postdoctoral Fellow / Evolutionary Neuroscience Lab

I’m studying individual variation in brain structures and connections that enable some chimpanzees to use tools. Broadly, my interests lie in understanding how animals (including humans) learn to use tools, acquire new skills, and how that changes their brain. Currently, I work for Dr....

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Katrin Vogt

Group Leader / Neurobiology

I am interested in deciphering the functional mechanisms underlying flexible behavior in the brain. How do animals adapt their behaviour in response to changes in external cues, social cues and internal states? How are these adaptations represented on the neural circuit level. I work with...

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David Weissman

Postdoctoral Fellow / Stress and Development Lab, Department of Psychology

I am a developmental cognitive neuroscientist studying neural mechanisms that explain how childhood trauma impacts emotion functioning in adolescence and contributes to the development of...

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Amanda Whipple

Assistant Professor / Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology

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Mary Whitman

Assistant Professor / Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology

I am a clinician-scientist in pediatric ophthalmology who is an emerging leader in the genetics of strabismus, molecular development of the oculomotor system, and the pathological basis for eye movement...

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Rachel Wilson

Joseph B. Martin Professor of Basic Research in the Field of Neurobiology / Department of Neurobiology

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Carla Winter

MD-PhD Candidate / Kirby Neurobiology Center

I am an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School. I completed her PhD in the laboratory of Zhigang He at Boston Children’s Hospital in June 2023, where I built a comprehensive anatomic and transcriptomic taxonomy of adult mouse spinal projecting neurons (SPNs). My efforts in characterizing...

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Min Wu

Postdoctoral Fellow / Yun Zhang lab

My research is focusing on how transcriptional regulation modulate brain functions during aversive olfactory learning at whole genome level and single neuron resolution in C. elegans. I did my PhD work at University of Basel and ETH Zurich in Switzerland, where I investigated the genetic...

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Huixin Xu

Instructor / Lab of Maria Lehtinen, Department of Pathology, Boston Children's Hospital

I study the choroid plexus brain barrier and the cerebrospinal fluid to see how they I react to brain disorders like Alzheimer’s...

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Masahito Yamagata

Research Associate / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

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Walid Yassin

Staff Scientist / Department of Psychiatry

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Elisa York

Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Gary Yellen, Department of Neurobiology

I completed my PhD work on immunometabolism (how metabolic pathways control immune activity) in microglia of the brain. There, I used fluorescent lifetime imaging and 2-photon microscopy, as well as a variety of biochemical techniques and metabolic assays, to show that an immune stimulus...

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Cindy Yuan

Graduate Student / Lab of Christopher Harvey, Department of Neurobiology

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Adam Zajac

Administrative Coordinator / Harvard Brain Science Initiative/Lab of Chenghua Gu, Department of Neurobiology

I manage the HBI website, mailing lists, and databases such as our scientist directory. In addition, I help organize and advertise our scientific and social events, create our posters and programs, design our newsletters, facilitate our image competitions and provide general administrative...

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Jacob Zavatone-Veth

Graduate Student / Junior Fellow (Harvard Society of Fellows)

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Sara Zeppilli

Postdoctoral fellow / Lab of Paola Arlotta

I am originally from Italy. I completed my PhD in Neuroscience from Brown University, where I studied the evolution of cortical cell types through the lens of the mammalian olfactory cortex. In the Arlotta lab I am interested in the development and evolution of the cerebral...

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Chuchu Zhang

Postdoc / Lab of Stephen Liberles

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Header image:
Dividing neurons expressing different genes fan out in the developing mouse brain. Courtesy of Katherine Morillo, lab of Christopher A. Walsh.

A special thank you to Jonathan Schneiderman for coming up with ‘Connectome’ as a name for this directory!