Graduate Students

Our Alums

Heather Rice PhD

Graduate student with the Program in Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School (2008-2013).

Priya Srikanth MD, PhD

Graduate student with the Preogram in Neurosciences, Harvard Medical School (2010-2015).

Joseph Negri PhD

Graduate student with the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program, Harvard Medical School (2014-2018).

Vicky Chou PhD

Graduate student with the BBS program at Harvard Medical School (2015-2022).

Hyo Lee

Hyo Lee PhD

Graduate student with the Preogram in Neurosciences, Harvard Medical School (2015-2022).

Visiting Graduate Students

Robert van der Linden

Robert van der Linden

Visiting Graduate student from Radboud University, the Netherlands (2017-2019)

Yan Bi

Yan Bi

Visiting Graduate student from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2019-2020)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Meichen Liao PhD

Meichen did her postdoctoral work in our lab from 2010-2018.

Christina Muratore PhD

Christina did her postdoctoral research in our lab from 2010-2017 and is currently the head of the iPSC NeuroHub at BWH

Sarah Sullivan PhD

Sarah did her postdoctoral research in our lab from 2013-2016

Chun-I Wu

Chun-I Wu PhD

Chun-I did his postdoctoral work in our lab from Jan. 2017-Nov. 2019 studying the effects of Trisomy 21 on Alzheimer's Disease

Marty Fernandez

Marty Fernandez PhD

Marty studied the biochemical mechanisms by which the Amyloid Precursor Protein (APP) is sequentially cleaved.

Yi-Chen Hsieh PhD

Yi-Chen was a postdoc in our lab from Jan 2020 to Nov 2022 during which she studied the role of proteasome function on the accumulation and degradation of phospho-Tau in Alzheimer Disease using iPSC derived neurons.

Technicians

Dana Callahan MD

Research Technician (2013-2015). Currently a medical resident at BWH.

Valentina Lagomarsino

Research Technician (2015-2018). Currently a graduate student at Harvard Medical School

Taylor Taylor

Research technician (2015-2017). Currently at the University of Colorado Medical School working on his MD

Seiyam Suth

Lab technician (2009-2012)

Toby Cavanaugh

Research technician (2009-2012)

Robert Smith

Research technician (2016-2017). Currently works at Biogen.

Amy He

Amy He

Lab technician (2017-2019) Currently working on her MD at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College – Thomas Jefferson University

Julie Merchant

Julie Merchant

Lab technician (2018-2019) Currently working on her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania

Lizzy Vinton

Lab technician (2019-2021) Currently working on her MD, MPH at Tufts University School of Medicine (Maine Tract)

Seeley Fancher

Lab technician (2020-2022) Currently working at Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Fatmata Bah

Lab technician (2020-2022) Currently working on her MD at Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai.

Undergraduate Students

Thesis Students

Lawrence Benjamin

Undergraduate researcher Harvard University (Thesis from 2010-2011)

Marion Tilearcio

Undergraduate researcher, Boston College (Thesis from 2009-2011)

Constance Zhou

Undergraduate researcher, Harvard University (Thesis from 2013-2016)

Taehwan Shin

Undergraduate researcher, Harvard University (Thesis from 2012-2015)

Marlise Arellano

Undergraduate researcher, Harvard University (Thesis from 2016-2018)

Deepika Kurup

Deepika Kurup

Used patient-derived iPSCs to study endosomal and lysosomal biology in late-onset AD. Harvard College-Neuroscience (Thesis 2017-2019). Currently working on her PhD at Stanford medical school.

Sope Adeleye

Sope Adeleye

Undergraduate researcher, Harvard University (Thesis from 2018-2020)

Undergraduate Interns

Rachel Gladstone

Bowdoin College (2012-2014)

Karam Han

Boston University 2014-2015

Jenny Makovkina

Harvard (2013-2015)

Steven Ryu

Amherst (2015-2016)

Summer students

Bianca DiChiaro

Simmons College (2011-2012)

Elisa Nabel

Harvard (2010)

Palig Mouradian

2013

Frishta Abawi

Brandeis (2013)

Katherine Murphy

Skidmore (2012)

T.J. Muratore

U. Mary Washington (2014-15)

Megan Gaugler

Skidmore (2011)

Blen Kedir (2022)

Stanford