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
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Jeffery Keating, PhD
Director of Information Technology (Retired) NeurAbilities
Faculty advisor: W. Thomas Thach, MD,PhD
Dissertation (1994): An investigation into the role of cerebellar cortex in the adaptation of a targeted ballistic movement of the wrist
Akshata Korgaonkar, PhD
Scientist-Immuno Neurology, Alector
- Email: akskor@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Edward Han, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-2020
Jan Kubanek, PhD
Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, University of Utah
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2013): Embodied decision signals in the brain
Timothy Laumann, MD, PhD
Instructor, Washington University
Faculty advisors: Steven Petersen, PhD (Radiology), David Van Essen, PhD (Neuroscience)
Dissertation (2017): Functional brain organization in space and time
Donghoon Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Rockefeller University
- Email: mdhe1248@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Timothy Holy, PhD
Dissertation (2019): A molecular logic of sensory coding revealed by optical tagging of physiologically-defined neuronal types
James Lewis, PhD
Professor, West Virginia University
Faculty advisor: David Van Essen, PhD
Dissertation (1998): The intraparietal sulcus of the Macaque and connected cortical regions: Anatomical parcellation and connections throughout the hemisphere
Jingfeng Li, PhD
Data Science Manager, Facebook
- Email: jingfengmli@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2015): Neural basis of functional connectivity MRI
Xitong Liang, PhD
Assistant Professor, Peking University
- Email: xitong.liang@pku.edu.cn
Faculty advisors: Tim Holy, PhD, and Paul Taghert, PhD
Dissertation (2018): Neural mechanisms of Drosophila circadian rhythms
Zhikai Liu, PhD
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School
- Email: zkai.liu@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Martha Bagnall, PhD
Dissertation (2021): Vestibulospinal circuit in the larval zebrafish
Leigha M Lynch, PhD
Assistant Professor, Midwestern University
- Email: llynch@midwestern.edu
Faculty advisors: Kari Allen, PhD and Amy Bauernfeind, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2020
Marcus Mahar, PhD
Scientist – Oncology Assay Development, Invitae
- Email: marcus.mahar.1@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Dissertation (2019): Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of axon regeneration
Julian Meeks, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Rochester
Muneshwar Mehra, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of North Carolina
- Email: muneshwar_mehra@med.unc.edu
Andrew Meier, PhD
Postdoc, Guenther Lab, Boston University
Faculty advisor: Andreas Burkhalter, PhD
Dissertation (2020): Modularity of feedback for state-dependent guidance of navigation in mouse visual cortex
Ilya Monosov, PhD
Professor, Department of Neuroscience; Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Psychiatry; Johns Hopkins University
Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 2014-2025
Eric Mooshagian, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist, University of California, San Diego
- Email: emooshagian@ucsd.edu
Sabin Nettles, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University/
- Email: snettles@stanford.edu
Faculty advisor: Harrison Gabel, PhD
Dissertation (2022): Emerging insights into a role for Topoisomerase IIB and Methyl-CpG binding protein 2 in regulating neuronal transcription
Francesco Nodari, PhD
Clinical Research Associate, Syneos Health
- Email: nodarif@gmail.com
Faculty advisor: Timothy Holy, PhD
Dissertation (2008): Sulfated steroids as natural ligands of mouse pheromone sensing neurons