Alumni
Michelle L. Schlief, Ph.D., Psy.D.
Former Research Fellow (2006-2008)
Current position:
Psychotherapist, private practice
Shawn R. Olsen, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. student in neuroscience (2005-2009)
Current position:
Associate Investigator, Neural Coding Group
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Nathan W. Gouwens, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. student in Neuroscience (2007-2009)
Current position:
Senior Scientist, Modeling, Analysis, & Theory Group
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Vikas Bhandawat, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2005-2009)
Current position:
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Drexel University
Hokto Kazama, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2006-2010)
Current position:
Team Leader
RIKEN Brain Science Institute
Emre Yaksi, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2007-2010)
Current position:
Professor,
Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience
Yi (Joey) Zhou, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. Student in Neuroscience (2006-2011)
Current position:
Quantitative Researcher
TrexQuant Management, LLC
Brendan P. Lehnert, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. Student in Neuroscience (2007-2012)
Current position:
Associate
Flagship Pioneering
Quentin Gaudry, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2008-2012)
Current position:
Assistant Professor of Biology
University of Maryland
Katherine I. Nagel, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2008-2014)
Current position:
Associate Professor of Neuroscience
New York University Department of Neuroscience and Physiology / NYU Neuroscience Institute
Wendy W. Liu, MD/Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. student in Neuroscience (2010-2014)
Current position:
Clinical Instructor in Opthamology
Stanford University Hospital
Mehmet Fisek, Ph.D.
Former Ph.D student in Neuroscience (2009-2014),
Research Fellow (2014-2015)
Current position:
Senior Research Associate, Hausser lab
University College London
Elizabeth J. Hong, Ph.D.
former Research Fellow (2009-2015)
Current position:
Assistant Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering
California Institute of Technology
Joseph S. Bell, MD/Ph.D.
Former Ph.D. Student in Neuroscience (2009-2015)
Current position:
Resident in Neurologic Surgery
University of California, Los Angeles
Allison E. Baker Chang, MD/Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2009-2015)
Current position:
Clinical Fellow in Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital
John Tuthill, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2012-2015)
Current position:
Assistant Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Washington
Tony Azevedo, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2012-2015)
Current position:
Senior Research Fellow, Tuthill Lab
University of Washington
Willie Tobin, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2011-2016)
Current position:
Co-Founder
Sunday Morning Mushrooms
James Jeanne, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2012-2017)
Current position:
Associate Professor in Neuroscience
Yale University School of Medicine
Alex Batchelor, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2014-2018)
Current position:
Founder & CEO
Pebble
Paola Patella, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2014-2019)
Current position:
Postdoc
Iurilli lab, Italian Institute of Technology
Sasha Rayshubskiy, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2014-2019)
Current Position:
Fellow
Rowland Institute
Yvette Fisher, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2016-2021)
Current Position:
Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cellular Biology
U.C. Berkeley
Jenny Lu, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2016-2021)
Current Position:
Resident Physician (Neurology)
Mass General Brigham
Melanie Basnak, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2017-2022)
Current Position:
Senior Program Manager
Open Philanthropy
Asa Barth-Maron, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2014-2022)
Current Position:
Machine Learning Scientist
Antares Therapeutics
Tatsuo Okubo, Ph.D.
Former Research Fellow (2015-2022)
Current Position:
Neural Data Scientist at Chinese Institute for Brain Research
Michael Marquis, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2014-2022)
Current Position:
Senior Data Scientist
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
Habiba Noamany, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2020-2023)
Current position:
Graduate Student in Neuroscience
Prerau lab, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Elena Westeinde, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2019-2024)
Current position:
Computational neuroscientist
Allen Institute
Alexandra Hartman, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2015-2024)
Current position:
Admissions counselor
Southern Oregon University
Matthew Collie, Ph.D.
Former Graduate Student in Neuroscience (2019-2026)
Current position:
Postdoctoral Specialist
Bean Lab, Harvard Medical School
