Welcome to the HBI Connectome!

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 Connectome aims to connect individuals across all of these domains.

SEARCH ALPHABETICALLY
F
U
FILTER BY:
NEURO TOPICS
CAMPUS
ROLE
TEXT
Saman Abbaspoor
Research Fellow / Neurobiology
...
Ana Rita Agra de Almeida Quadros
...
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...
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...
Arnold Caleb Asiimwe
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...
Dániel Barabási
I am pursuing a Ph.D. in the Harvard Biophysics Graduate Program with Florian Engert, researching innateness in neurodevelopment and AI...
Isle Bastille
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...
Parizad Bilimoria
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 people...
Richard Born
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...
Siwei Chen
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...
Joanna Christodoulou
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...
Alexander Cohen
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...
Ivan Coto Hernandez
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
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 plexus...
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...
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...
Mengyuan Ding
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...
Yasmin Escobedo Lozoya
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...
Julia Espinosa
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...
Nadine Gaab
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...
Rachelle Gaudet
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology / Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
My research interests are, broadly, in the mechanisms of signaling and transport across cellular membranes. I trained as a structural biologist, and that continues to be my comfort zone. Over my career, I have investigated proteins implicated in all senses, starting with vision (the vertebrate...
Stanley Gill
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....
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...
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...
Gwenaelle Geleoc Gwenaelle Geleoc
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...
Xiaomeng Han
I use correlated light and electron microscopy to study neuronal...
Jay Hennig
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...
Luis Hernandez-Nunez
I conducted my Ph.D. thesis research with Prof. Aravinthan Samuel at the Harvard Department of Physics. My work uncovered new molecular receptors, cells, circuits, and behavioral strategies underlying thermal homeostasis in larval Drosophila. I am now a postdoctoral fellow studying the neural...
Dianna Hidalgo
Graduate Student / Program in Neuroscience
...
Barbara Hollunder
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...
Laura Holsen
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...
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,...
M. Arafat Hussain
I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Image, Informatics & Intelligence (i3) Research Lab at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical...
Yasuko Isoe
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...
Ismael Izquierdo
...
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...
Charles Jennings
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 across...
Jill Jones
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,...
Meher Juttukonda
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...
David Kang
Research Fellow / Lab of Christopher Walsh
I am interested in studying autism and neurodevelopmental...
Harris Kaplan
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...
Hyunyong (Howard) Koh
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 epilepsy/sudden...
Charalampia (Chara) Koutsioumpa
...
Jan Kufer
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 to...
Valentina Lagomarsino
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...
Alyssa Larios
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...
Emma Laurent
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...
Ralph Lawton
MD/PhD Student / Health Policy (Economics)
...
Sara Lazar
Associate Professor / Meditation Research Lab
...
JoonHyuk Lee
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,...
Kathryn Lehigh
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...
Zhengzheng Sophia Liang
I am interested in elucidating the molecular basis of natural behavior using technologies that integrating genomics and...
Einat Liebenthal
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry / Functional Neuroimaging & Bioinformatics Lab
...
Su Min Lim
...
Albert Lin
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...
Jack Lindsay
I’m a PhD student studying the gut-brain axis through tissue...
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...
Juan Martinez-Francois
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...
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...
Steven Meisler
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...
Alan Mejia Maza
Postdoctoral Fellow / Neurology
...
Dylan Meyer
I am a biomedical neuroscientist motivated to develop novel therapeutics and technologies that benefit disease...
Pranav Misra
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...
Karolina Mizeracka
I am a developmental biologist interested in the relationship between lineage and cell fate using the model system C....
Cynthia Moncada Reid
...
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 roles...
Sam Murdock
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...
Celia Muto
I care about science communication and photography. I am an Administrative & Staff Assistant at Harvard Medical School. I also am a freelance photographer who often covers science seminars and photographs headshots for the Harvard Medical...
Sivapratha Nagappan-Chettiar
Research Fellow / Lab of Hisashi Umemori
...
Leigh Needleman
Executive Director / Rowland Institute at Harvard
I’m currently the Executive Director of the Rowland Institute at...
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...
Javiera Oyarzun
I am a postdoc at the Psychology Department working at the Phelps Lab. I am interested in understanding how the gut microbiota can determine or influence individuals’ cognitive functions, like memory and emotional learning, as well as individuals’ propensity to develop and recover...
Jeongho Park
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...
Jonah Pearl
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...
Paula Pflitsch
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...
Francisco Quintana
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...
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...
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 level,...
Chen Ran
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...
Jasmine Reggiani
...
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)...
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:...
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 at...
Gabriel Romero
...
Olivia Rose
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 research...
Abhishek Sampath Kumar
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...
Joshua Sanes
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...
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...
Luke Schwerdtfeger
I am a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Howard Weiner studying the role of intestinal neural-immune signaling in neurodegenerative diseases like multiple...
Haozhe Shan
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...
Amy Shepherd
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...
Yu-Tzu Shih
Postdoctoral Fellow / Lab of Amar Sahay
...
Austen Sitko
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...
Summer Smentek
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...
Sofia Soares
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...
Dustin Tillman
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,...
Claudio Toro Serey
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...
George Touloumes
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...
Ted Turesky
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...
Hannah Twarkowski
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
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,...
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....
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...
David Weissman
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...
Mary Whitman
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...
Rachel Wilson
Joseph B. Martin Professor of Basic Research in the Field of Neurobiology / Department of Neurobiology
...
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...
Huixin Xu
I’m a postdoctoral fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, with Dr. Maria Lehtinen. Before postdoc, I completed my PhD training at Harvard BBS program, studying microglia in Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. Dennis Selkoe, so I’ve been on the Longwood Campus for 10+ years! My current research...
Huixin Xu
I’m an Instructor at Boston Children’s Hospital, with Dr. Maria Lehtinen. Before postdoc, I completed my PhD training at Harvard BBS program, studying microglia in Alzheimer’s disease with Dr. Dennis Selkoe, so I’ve been on the Longwood Campus for 10+ years! My current research focuses...
Masahito Yamagata
...
Walid Yassin
Staff Scientist / Department of Psychiatry
I am a Research Scientist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Research Associate at McLean Hospital, and an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. My research focuses on several neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. I use different approaches, such as imaging, behavioral...
Elisa York
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...
Adam Zajac
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...
Jacob Zavatone-Veth
...
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...
Chuchu Zhang
...

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!