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.
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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

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

Martha O’Brien, PhD
Senior Scientist, Promega Corp.
- Email: martha.obrien@promega.com
Faculty advisor: Paul Taghert, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, 1990-1995

Torben Ott, PhD
Principal Investigator, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin and the Institute of Biology at the Humboldt University of Berlin
- Email: torben.ott@bccn-berlin.de
Faculty advisor: Adam Kepecs, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, 2020-2021

Dongkook Park, PhD
Staff Scientist, Johnson Lab, Dept of Developmental Biology, Washington University
- Email: dongkookpark@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Paul Taghert, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow & staff scientist, 2001-2016