Alumni - Neuroscience

See where former members of the Department of Neuroscience are now, including graduate students, postdocs, and faculty.

Trainees from the Department of Neuroscience go on to have distinguished careers in academia, medicine, industry and beyond. We offer unparalleled institutional resources, faculty who are dedicated to mentoring and a Department that prioritizes diversity, equity and inclusion. If you are interested in joining us, check out graduate rotation opportunities and postdoctoral positions.

Profiles

Paul Bridgman, Professor of Neuroscience and innovative educator, retires

Dr. Bridgman made fundamental discoveries into the structure of growth cones and developed novel histology teaching approaches over his 4-decade career at Washington University.

Pest control: A profile of Laura Duvall, PhD

From circadian rhythms in Drosophila to feeding and mating in mosquito, Duvall is revealing the inner workings of insect behavior—and how to manipulate it.

Neuroanatomist: A profile of Matt Glasser, MD, PhD

As a graduate student in the Department of Neuroscience, Glasser came to be a leader in the Human Connectome Project.

Student of sleep: A profile of Lizzie Tilden

The MSTP student brings her background in systems neuroscience to the cutting-edge molecular biology expertise of Yao Chen’s laboratory.

Neuroscience philosopher: A profile of David Kaplan, PhD

The cognitive neuroscientist at Macquarie University got his first wet lab experience as a postdoc at WashU, and now addresses those same questions about hand-eye coordination and sensory-motor integration in his research on surgeons’ skills.

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Namiko Abe, PhD

Lead Medical Writer, Fishawack Health

Email: abenamiko@gmail.com

Faculty Advisor: Valeria Cavalli, PhD

Dissertation (2010): Regulation of peripheral nerve regeneration by the mTOR pathway

Kevin Alloway, PhD

Professor Emeritus, Pennsylvania State University

Email: kda1@psu.edu

Faculty advisor: Harold Burton, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 1983-1990

Charles Anderson, PhD

(Retired) Research Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology and Physics, Washington University

Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1992-2007

Dora Angelaki, PhD

Professor of Neural Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University

Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1999-2011

Akiyuki Anzai, PhD

Senior Staff Scientist, University of Rochester

Faculty advisor: David Van Essen, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 1999-2007

Oshri Avraham, PhD

Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Email: oshri.avraham@uga.edu

Faculty advisor: Valeria Cavalli, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2019

Staff scientist, 2020-2022

Alison Bernstein, PhD

Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

Email: bernst79@msu.edu

Faculty advisor: Karen O’Malley, PhD

Dissertation (2009): The role of PUMA in toxin models of Parkinson’s disease

Jacquelyn Brown, PhD

Staff Scientist, Vanderbilt University

Email: jacquelyn.a.brown@vanderbilt.edu

Faculty advisor: Paul Bridgman, PhD

Dissertation (2008): The role of growth cone myosin II and actin associated proteins in the repulsive response iduced by the guidance factor semaphorin 3A

Gonzalo Budelli, PhD

Professor, Universidad de la República

Email: gonzalobudelli@gmail.com

Faculty advisor: Lawrence Salkoff, PhD

Dissertation (2013): Novel structural and physiological functions of high conductance K+ channels of the Slo family

Mary Bartlett Bunge, PhD

Christine E. Lynn Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience; Professor Emerita, Departments Cell Biology & Anatomy, Neurological Surgery and Neurology, The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis

Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1970-1988

Xinying Cai, PhD

Assistant Professor, New York University, Shanghai

Email: xinying.cai@nyu.edu

Faculty advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2009-2014

Rebecca Callahan, PhD

Professional Staff, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Space, Science & Technology

Faculty advisor: Martha Bagnall, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2019

Jeffrey Calton, PhD

Professor, California State University-Sacramento

Email: calton@csus.edu

Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow: 1997-1999

Dan Carlin, PhD

Research Scientist III, Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease

Email: dan.carlin@alexion.com

Faculty advisor: Valeria Cavalli, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2012-2019

S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD

Professor, University of California Los Angeles

Email: scarmichael@mednet.ucla.edu

Faculty advisor: Joel Price, DPhil

Dissertation (1993): The orbital and medial prefrontal cortex of the Macaque: Anatomical parcellation and evidence for limbic, sensory and premotor integration

Indra Chandrasekar, PhD

Associate Scientist, Sanford Research

Email: Indra.Chandrasekar@SanfordHealth.org

Faculty advisor: Paul Bridgman, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2008-2014

Steve Wohn Chul Chang, PhD

Associate Professor, Yale University

Email: steve.chang@yale.edu

Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD

Dissertation (2009): Sensorimotor transformation in the Macaque parietal reach region

Xiaoying Chen, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University

Email: xiaoyingchen@wustl.edu

Faculty advisor: Azad Bonni, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-2019

Richard Cheney, PhD

Professor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Email: richard_cheney@med.unc.edu

Faculty advisor: Mark Willard, PhD

Dissertation (1989): Localization of fodrin in the membrane associated cytoskeleton and characterization of fodrin’s interactions with putative fodrin-binding proteins

Adam Clemens, PhD

Scientist, Ascidian Therapeutics

Faculty advisor: Harrison Gabel, PhD

Dissertation (2020): Understanding the roles of DNA methylation and MeCP2 in neuronal enhancer control

Jonathan Cohen, PhD

Bullard Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1982-1992