Former postdoctoral students:
Theodore Schwartz. M. D. Professor
Dept. Neurosurgery
Cornell University Weil Medical College
James Kozloski, Ph.D. Research Staff Member
Manager, Multiscale Computational Modeling
IBM Research, Healthcare and Life Sciences Research
Member IBM Academy of Technology
IBM Master Inventor
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Anna Dunaevsky, Ph.D. (jointly advised with Dr. Carol Mason)
Professor
University of Nebraska Medical Centre
Huib Mansvelder, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Dept. Pharmacology
Free University of Amsterdam
Dani Dumitriu, M.D., Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dept. Pscyhiatry
Columbia University Medical School
New York, NY
Knut Holthoff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dept. Physiology
Friedrich-Schiller-University
Jena, Germany
Diana Smetters, Ph. D. Researcher
Computer Science Laboratory
PARC, Palo Alto
Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D. Tenured Professor and Dean
Dept. Psychology
Queens College-CUNY
Rafael Montoro, Ph.D. Lecturer
Dept. Physiology
University of Seville
Wei Gan, PhD. Professor
Harbin Institute of Technology
Shenzhen, China
Buqing Mao, Ph.D., MBA Research Associate
Keck School of Medicine
USC
Michael Beierlein, Ph.D. Assistant Professor
Dept. Neurobiology
UT Houston
Hajime Hirase, Ph.D. Group Leader
Dept. Neuroscience
RIKEN, Japan
Rosa Cossart, Ph.D. Group Leader
INSERM
Marseilles, France
Carlos Portera-Cailliau, MD-PhD
Steven C. Gordon Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research
Professor, Depts. of Neurology and Neurobiology
Director, UCLA-Caltech Medical Scientist Training Program
UCLA
Boaz Nemet, Ph.D.
Staff Researcher
KiloLambda, Israel
Gloster Aaron, Ph.D.
Associate Professor (tenure)
Neuroscience Program
Wesleyan University
Andrew Trevelyan, M.D., Ph.D.
Instructor
Dept. Neurology
University of Newcastle
Jason McLean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Neuroscience
University of Chicago
Morgane Jego, Ph.D.
Maître de Conférences
IMN, UMR
Université Bordeaux Segalen-CNRS 5293
Jiang Jiang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
University of Singapore
Mutsuo Nuriya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
Keio University School of Medicine
Tokyo, Japan
Wei Gan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Sarah Fayivar, Ph.D.
Programmer
Emiliano Rial-Verde, Ph.D.
Analyst
MacKenzie Inc.
New York, NY
Tim Vogels, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. Physiology
Oxford University
Roberto Araya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. Physiology
University of Montreal
Alan Woodruff, Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Research
Brain Research Institute
University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia
Elodie Fino, Ph.D.
Group Leader
INSERM
Grenoble, France
Hiroto Takahashi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Education and Clinical Manager
Medtronics
Tokyo, Japan
Sean Quirin, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
Masakazu Agetsuma, Ph.D.
Project Associate Professor
National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS)
Okazaki, Japan
Kira Poskanzer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
UCSF
Yeosook Shin, Ph.D. Associate Research Scientist
RIKEN
Hatoshi, Tokyo, Japan
Masayuki Sakamoto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Kyoto
Kyoto, Japan
Inbal Ayzhenstat, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv, Israel
Mahesh Karnani, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Oxford University
Oxford, UK
Alex Dubbs, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dept. Mathematics
University of Michigan
Mercé Izquierdo Serra, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Center for Biophotonics
Barcelona, Spain
Jesse Jackson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Physiology
University of Alberta
Ekaterina Taralova, Ph.D.
Developer
Zoox
San Francisco, CA
Darcy Peterka, Ph.D.
Director of Imaging
Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Columbia University
New York, NY
Jan Hirtz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
AG Tierphysiologie
TU Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Taekyung Kwon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Abbvie Pharmaceuticals
Cambridge, MA
Wieteke De Boer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Amsterdam
Weijian Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Electrical Engineering
University of California, Davis
Luis Carrillo-Reid, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Instituto Neurobiologia
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Juriquilla, Queretaro, Mexico
Erick Hoel, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Tufts University
Bedford, MA
Michael Wenzel, M.D. Ph.D.
Neurology Resident
University of Bonn, Germany
Yuki Bando, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Hamamatsu
Hamamatsu, Japan
Weiqun Fang, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China
Jordan Hamm, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Psychology
Georgia State University
Krishna Jayant, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Electrical Engineering
Purdue University
Victoria Andino, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dept. Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
David Tsai, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering,
School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications,
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Jae-Eun Miller , Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Psychiatry
Columbia University Medical Center
Thibault Lagache, Ph.D.
Group Leader
Pasteur Institute
Paris, France
Christiane Grimm, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
University of Paris
Paris, France
Will Stoy, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dept. Electrical Engineering
Columbia University
Doug Miller, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Biosystems Specialist
Nikon
Netanel Ofer, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hebrew University, Jerusalum
Former graduate students:
Sydney Cash M.D., Ph.D. 1998 (distinction)
Professor, Dept. Neurology
MGH, Harvard Medical School
Ania Majewska Ph.D. 2000
Professor, Dept. Neuroscience
University of Rochester Medical School
Areti Tsiola Ph.D. 2002
Tenured Lecturer
Queens College
Ayumu Tashiro Ph.D. 2002 (distinction)
Gruber International Award 2007
Group Leader
University of Singapore
Singapore
Jesse Goldberg M.D., Ph.D. 2003 (distinction), Dean’s Award
Tenured Associate Professor
Cornell University
Sila Konur Ph.D. 2004
Group Leader
MRC-NIMR
London, England
Volodymir Nikolenko Ph.D. 2007
Finalist, Kavli Doctoral Dissertation Award
Senior Associate
Royalty Pharma
New York, NY
Brendon Watson PhD (2008), MD (2010)
Assistant Professor
Dept. Psychiatry
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Tanya Sippy PhD (2011), MD (2013)
Assistant Professor
Depts. Psychiatry and Neuroscience
New York University Medical Center
New York, NY
Adam Packer PhD, 2011
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Physiology
Oxford University, UK
Christophe Dupre PhD, 2017
Assistant Professor
Institute for Brain Research (CIBR))
Beijing, China
John Szymanski PhD, 2018
Whitman Associate
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, MA
Shuting Han PhD, 2019
Peter Sajovic Memorial Prize
Postdoctoral Fellow, ETH, Zurich
Jonathan Lovas PhD, 2020
Postdoctoral Fellow
BRAIN Initiative
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Former sabbatical visitors:
Roberto Etchenique, Ph.D. Professor
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Hannah Monyer. M. D., Ph.D. Professor
Clinical Neurobiology
University of Heidelberg
Yuji Ikegaya, Ph.D. Associate Professor
Dept. Physiology
University of Tokyo
Oscar Filevich
Researcher, CONIFEC
Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires
UNDERGRADUATES MENTORED SINCE 1996: ~40
Selected undergraduates, with honors and current positions:
Zita Peterlin
Rabbi Scholar
Valedictorian, Columbia College 1998
Ph.D. Program in Biological Sciences,
Columbia University
Avinash Pankal
AAAS prize for best poster 1998
M.D. Program, University of Kentucky
Vikram Kumar
USA Today Finalist, All American Academic Team 1999
Soros New American Award 2000
Harvard / MIT MTS Program
Glenn Yiu Goldwater Scholar
Phi-Beta-Kappa
M.D. / Ph.D. Program, Harvard University
Rob Froemke Ph.D., UC Berkeley 2003
Grass Fellow, Woods Hole Marine Laboratory, 2003
Tenured Associate Professor, NYU
David Tsai
Rabbi Scholar
Goldwater scholar
M.D. / Ph.D. Program, Columbia University
Vivian Ferstermaker
Summa Cum Laude, Columbia College
M.D. / Ph.D. Program, Johns Hopkins University
Dani Dumitriu
Assistant Professor
Dept. Pschychiatry
Columbia University Medical Center
Farid Hamzei-Sichani
M.D. / Ph.D. Program, SUNY
Staff Neurosurgeon
Mt. Sinai School of Medicine
Rochelle Urban
Barnard Centennial Scholar
Ph.D. Program, UCSF
Dimitriy Aronov
Hertz Fellow
Ph.D. Program, MIT
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Sam Snyder
Harvard HST Program
Laura McGarry
MD, PhD Program
NYU
Andrew Murphy
MD, PhD Program
University of Pennsylvania
Ben Shababo
Valedictorian, Columbia School of General Studies
Graduate Neuroscience Program, UC Berkeley
Alexa Semonche
MD Program
UMNDJ
Kasra Manoocheri
MD, Ph.D. Program
NYU
Samuel Kim
MD, Ph.D. Program
UCLA-Caltech
