Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Kin Lam Wong
kinlamw at icloud dot com
Postdoc, ('21 - '23)
Ph.D. Simon Fraser University
Postdoc Simon Fraser University
Boxuan Zhao
zbx at illinois dot edu
Postdoc, ('17 - '23) Life Science Fellow
Ph.D. University of Chicago
Assistant Professor Univeristy of Illinois Urbana Champaign
Tongchao Li
ltongchao at outlook dot com
Postdoc, ('16 - '22) K99/RR00 awardee
Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine
Assistant Professor Zhejiang University
Jan Lui
jan dot lui at bmrn dot com
Postdoc, ('14 - '21) NIMH K01 Career Development Fellow
Ph.D. UCSF
Senior Scientist, BioMarin Pharmaceutical
Mark Wagner
mark_dot_wagner_at_nih_dot_gov
Postdoc, ('15 - '21) Burroughs Wellcome Career Development Awardee
Ph.D. Stanford University
Stadtman Investigator, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
Drew Friedmann
friedmann_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('16-'21) Epilepsy program postdoctoral fellow
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
Scientist, Cajal Neuroscience
Yukari Takeo
yhayashi_at_a3_dot_keio_dot_jp
Postdoc, ('18-'20)
Ph.D. The University of Tokyo
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, Keio University
Justus Kebschull
kebschull_at_jhu_dot_edu
Postdoc, ('17-'20)
Ph.D. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Website
Hongjie Li
hongjie.li_at_bcm_dot_edu
Postdoc, ('16-'20)
Ph.D. University of Rochester
SNI Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellow, K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Website
Jing Ren
jren_at_mrc-lmb_dot_cam_dotac_dot_uk
Postdoc, ('13-'19), Ph.D. National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China
Group Leader, Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Website
Wei-Hsiang Huang
Wei-Hsiang.huang_at_mcgill_dot_ca
Postdoc, ('14-'19), Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine
K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, McGill University
Website
Kevin Beier
kevin.beier01_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('12-'18), Ph.D Harvard University
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
Website
Laura DeNardo Wilke
ldenardo_at_ucla_dot_edu
Postdoc, ('13-'18), Ph. D University of California, San Diego
NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
NIMH K01 Career Development Fellow
Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Website
Lindsay Schwarz
lindsay_dot_schwarz_at_stjude_dot_org
Postdoc, ('10-'17), Ph.D. University of California, San Diego; NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Website
Timothy Mosca
timothy_dot_mosca_at_jefferson_dot_edu
Postdoc, ('10-'16), Ph.D. Harvard University; K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award
Assistant Professor, Thomas Jefferson University
Website
Xin Wang
xin.wang.kassy_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('14-16'), Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Software Engineer, Intel
Xiang Wang
whsiang_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('13-'16), Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Senior Research Scientist, Denali Therapeutics
Alexander Ward
Postdoc, ('10-'15), Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
HHMI Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
Senior Scientist II iXCells Biotchnologies
Vincenzo Favaloro
Postdoc, ('10-'15'), Ph.D. Ruprecht Karl Universitat
Scientist III, Grifols Diagnostic Solutions
Kazunari Miyamichi
kazunari_dot_miyamichi_at-riken,jp
Postdoc, ('06-'13), Ph.D. University of Tokyo
Postdoctoral Fellow; HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow
Team Leader RIKEN Center for Biosysems Dynamics Research
Nadja Makki
nadjamakki_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('11-'13)
Ph.D. Univ. of Utah
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Xiaomeng Milton Yu
xiaomeng.m.yu_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('08-'12)
Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine
Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow
Product and Market Lead, Benchling
Vardhan Dani
Postdoc, ('09-'12)
Ph.D. Brandeis Univ.
Principal Scientist, Tevard Biosciences
Simon Hippenmeyer
simon.hippenmeyer_at_ist.ac.at
Postdoc, ('06-'12), Ph.D. Biozentrum, Basel, Switzerland;
EMBO, HFSP, SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Website
Ya-Hui Chou
yhchou_at_gate.sinica.edu.
Postdoc, ('04-'11), Ph.D. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Group Leader, Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Bosiljka Tasic
bosiljka.tasic_at_gmail_dot_com
Postdoc, ('04-'11)
Ph.D. Harvard Univ., Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate Director, Allen Institute for Brain Science,Seattle
Daniela Berdnik
berdnik_at_stanford_dot_edu
Postdoc ('03-'10); Ph.D. Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria; EMBO and HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Associate, Stanford School of Medicine/VA Hospital, Palo Alto
Christopher Potter
cpotter_at_jhmi_dot_edu
Postdoc ('02-'09); Ph.D. Yale Univ.; Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Website
Oren Schuldiner
oren.schuldiner_at_weizmann.ac.il
Postdoc ('03-'08); Ph.D. Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel; EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Haitao Zhu
Postdoc ('02-'07); Ph.D. State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook; NIH NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow
Partner, First Spark Ventures
Hui Zong
hz9s_at_virginia_dot_edu
Postdoc ('01-'06); Ph.D. Indiana Univ.
Professor, University of Virginia
Website
Takahiro Chihara
tchihara_at_hiroshima-.u.ac.jp
Postdoc ('02-'06); Ph.D. National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan; Japan Science and Technology Corporation and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor, Department of Biological Science, Hiroshima University
Andrea Penton
pentona_at_labcorp_dot_com
Postdoc ('01-'06); Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; NIH Epilepsy Postdoctoral Fellow
Technical Director, Clinical Cytogenetics, Center for Molecular Biology, Labcorp
Shakti Narayan
Postdoc ('04-'05); Ph.D. Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
CEO, Accent Therapeutics
Julian Ng
Postdoc ('99-'04); Ph.D. Univ. College London, UK; American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Senior Associate, Parexel
Pierre Billuart
billuart_at_infobiogen.fr
Postdoc ('99-'01); Ph.D. Univ. Rene Descartes, Paris V, France; EMBO and HFSP Postdoctoral Fellow Group Leader, INSERN Paris, France
Christopher Winter
Postdoc ('97-'01); Ph.D. Columbia Univ.; NIH NSRA Postdoctoral Fellow
Entrepreneur in Residence, Gordian Ventures
Zhao Liu
zliu38_at_hotmail_dot_com
Postdoc ('99-'00); Ph.D. Rutgers Univ.; M.D. Beijing Medical College, China
Medical Fellow, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Tzumin Lee
tzumin_at_umich_dot_edu
Postdoc ('97-'00); Ph.D. Johns Hopkins; NIH NSRA Postdoctoral Fellow
Professor and HHMI Investigator University of Michigan
Website
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Andrew Shuster
Andrew_Shuster at hms dot harvard dot edu
Graduate Student ('15 - '21) Neuroscience Ph.D. Program
NSF, SGF Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellow: Ginty and Greenberg Labs, Harvard University
Qijing (ChiChi) Xie
chichi_at_calicolabs_dot_com
Graduate Student ('17 - '22) Neurosciences Ph.D. Program
Beltarelli Fellow
Scientist, Calico Life Sciences
Eliza Adams
elizadams_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('16-'20)
Co-advised with Marc Tessier-Lavigne
Stanford Bio-X Bowes Fellow
Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group
Jiefu Li
lij6_at_janelia_dot_hhmi_org
Graduate Student, ('15-'20)
Vanessa Kong Kerzner Graduate Fellowship, Genentech Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Group Leader, HHMI/Janelia Research
William Allen
weallen_at_fas_dot_harvard_dot_edu
Graduate Student, ('14-'19), Neurosciences Ph.D. Program
NSF Graduate Fellow; Hertz Foundation Fellow
Junior Fellow, Harvard University
Nic Berns
berns.ds_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('10-'16), Neurosciences Ph.D. Program; Postdoc, ('16-'17)
Senior Scientific Researcher, 23andme
Bing Wu
bingwu2009_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('12-'17), Biology Ph.D. Program
Scientist 3, Genentech
Brandon Weissbourd
bweissb_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate student, ('12-16')
Biology Ph.D. Program
NSF Graduate Fellow
Stanford Graduate Fellow
Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Casey Guenthner
cjguenthner_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('10-'15)
Neurosciences Ph.D. Program; Department of Defense NDSEG Fellow
Software Engineer Samsara
Xiaojing Gao
xiaojing.j.gao_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('10-'15), Biological Sciences
Ph.D. Program; Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Website
William Joo
william.joo_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('09-'14)
Neurosciences Ph.D. Program; NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Liang Liang
liangl02_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, ('07-'13)
Applied Physics PhD Program; Stanford Graduate Fellow; Lubert Stryer Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow
Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine
Website
Weizhe Hong
whong_at_ucla_dot_edu
Graduate Student ('07-'12)
Biological Sciences Ph.D. Program
Professor, UCLA
Website
Lora Sweeney
lora.sweeney_at_ist_dot_ac_at
Graduate Student, ('05-'11)
Neurosciences Ph.D. Program Neonatal Biology Training Fellow
Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Joy Tea (Joy Wu)
JoySTea_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student, (05-'10), Neurosciences Ph.D. Program; NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Director of Biomarker Operations, TenSixteen Bio, Inc.
Ling Li
li_ling0102_at_wuxiapptec_dot_com
Graduate Student ('05-'10), Biological Sciences Ph.D.
Program Associate Director, WuXi Biologics
Maria Spletter
maria.spletter_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student ('04-'10); Stanford Graduate Fellow, NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri Kansas City
J. Sebastian Espinosa
Graduate Student ('03-'09), Neurosciences Ph.D. Program; DOD and NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow
Director II AbbVie
Eric Hoopfer
ehoopfer_at_carleton_dot_edu
Graduate Student ('02-'07), Neurosciences Ph.D. Program; NSF Predoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor Carleton College
Takaki Komiyama
tkomiyama_at_ucsd_dot_edu
Graduate Student, Neurosciences Ph.D. Program ('02-'06); Stanford Graduate Fellow and Japan Stanford Association Graduate Fellow
Professor, Section of Neurobiology, UCSD
Website
Gregory Jefferis
jefferis_at_mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
Graduate Student; Neurosciences Ph.D. Program ('99-'03); Postdoc ('03-'04); HHMI Predoctoral Fellow; Weintraub Graduate Student Award; Tom Elkins Memorial Lectureship
Group Leader, Division of Neurobiology, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Website
Elizabeth Marin
em711_at_cam_ac_dot_edu
Graduate Student; Biol. Sciences Ph.D. Program ('00-'04); HHMI Predoctoral Fellow; Postdoctoral Fellow, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Research Associate Cambridge University
Ryan Watts
rwatts_at_gene_dot_com
Graduate Student; Biol. Sciences Ph.D. Program ('01-'04); NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellow
Founder and CEO, Denali Therapeutics
Ethan Scott
ethan.scott_at_uq.edu.au
Graduate Student ('97-'02); Biol. Sciences Ph.D. Program; NIH Neonatology Grant Trainee
Associate Professor, University of Queensland, Australia
Ann Nakayama Goldstein
ayngoldstein_at_gmail_dot_com
Graduate Student; Neurosciences Ph.D. Program ('99-'04); HHMI Predoctoral Fellow
Senior Editor, Cell
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND STAFF
Arthur Lee
atlee_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('97-'99); Perkin Elmer undergraduate research award
Stanford Medical Student
Sophie Grutzner
sgrutzner_at_gmail_dot_com
Lab Technician, ('18-'20)
Graduate student, UCSF
Nathan Pan-Doh
npandoh_at_alumni_dot_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate('16-'19)
MD student, Johns Hopkins University
Ricardo Guajardo
rguajardo97_at_outlook_dot_com
Undergraduate('16-'19)
MD-PhD student, UCSF
Stephanie Wheaton
Administrative Assistant('05-'18)
Retired
Michael Zhu Chen
Undergraduate('14-'18)
Rhodes Scholars, University of Oxford
Cindy Liu
cdanyang.liu_at_gmail_dot_com
Lab technician (''16-'18)
Ph.D. student, UCSF
Nghia Nguyen
nguyen_at_g_dot_harvard_dot_edu
Undergraduate ('15-'17), lab technician ('17-'18)
Ph.D. student, Harvard University
Lisa Fu
lfu2_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student
Katherine DeLoach
kdeloach_at_stanford_dot_edu
Lab Technician ('12-'16)
Medical Student, SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Vicki Lau
vickilau_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student
Samantha Zarate
slzarate_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student
Amin Aalipour
amin.aalipour_at_gmail_dot_com
Undergraduate Student
Gabby Barsh
grbarsh_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student
University of Washington MD-PhD student
Catherine Nguyen
cnguyen2_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student
UC Irvine Medical Student
Marvin Liu Shu
mlshu_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student
Analog Devices
Emilie Russler
mimirussler_at_gmail_dot_com
Undergraduate Student ('07-'10);
Medical Student, Washington University
Xiu Xia (Susan) Zhang
Lab Assistant ('05-'10);
Retired
Marena Tynan La Fontaine
marena.tlf_at_gmail_dot_com
Research Assistant ('07-'09)
Research Assistant, Jan Lab, UCSF
Wen Zhou (Joe) Zhong
oceantown2828_at_yahoo_dot_com
Research Assistant ('04-'08)
Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctor, San Francisco and Sacramento
Mandar Muzumdar
muzumdar_at_post.harvard_dot_edu
Medical Student ('04-'08)
Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/MGH
Francisco Luongo
fluongo_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('06-'08)
Research Assistant, Stanford
Audrey Fan
auddie_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('06-'08)
Graduate Student, MIT
Jonathan Levy
Jonathan.Levy_at_ucsf_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('04-'06); Research Assistant ('06-'07)
Graduate Student, UCSF
Justin Liu
jliu85_at_gmail_dot_com
Undergraduate Student ('05-'07)
Graduate Student, Caltech
Carol Cao
yucao_at_aecom.yu_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('05-'07)
Medical Student, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Helen Su
suh_at_janelia.hhmi.org
Research Associate ('02-'07); Ph.D. Univ. of Lyon I, France
Research Associate, Janelia Farm Research Campus/HHMI
Anita Devineni
anita.devineni_at_ucsf_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('04-'06)
Graduate Student, UCSF
Tina Chou
tchou51_at_gmail_dot_com
Undergraduate Student ('04-'06)
Medical Student, University of Texas at San Antonio
Resident, UCLA
Raj Vyas
Undergraduate Student ('01-'03)
UCLA Medical Student
Esteban Gomez
Undergraduate Student ('01-'03)
UCLA Medical Student
Alison Maresh
amaresh_at_stanfordalumni.org
Undergraduate Student ('00-'02); Firestone Award for Excellent Undergraduate Thesis, Stanford
Yale Medical Student
Simone Marticke
spursel_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('99-'01); Firestone Award for Excellent Undergraduate Thesis, Stanford
Stanford Ph.D. Student
Julia Tzu
Undergraduate Student ('99-'01)
Johns Hopkins Medical Student
Timothy Nardine
pastaman3_at_excite_dot_com
Research Assistant ('98-'01)
University of Wisconsin Medical Student
John Reuter
Undergraduate Student ('98-'00); Research Assistant ('00-'02)
Washington Univ. Medical Student
Bruce Wang
Undergraduate Student ('98-'00)
UCSF Medical Student
Arthur Lee
atlee_at_stanford_dot_edu
Undergraduate Student ('97-'99); Perkin Elmer undergraduate research award
Stanford Medical Student
Matthew Harms
mharms_at_itsa.ucsf_dot_edu
Research Assistant ('97-'99)
UCSF Neurology Resident