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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Gaurav H. Patel, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Columbia University
- Email: ghp2114@cumc.columbia.edu
Faculty advisors: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD (Neuroscience), Maurizio Corbetta, MD (Neurology)
Dissertation (2009): Attentional networks in Macaques
Carlos Ponce, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard University
Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 2018-2021
John Pruett, MD, PhD
Professor, Washington University
- Email: pruettj@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Harold Burton, PhD
Dissertation (1998): Response patterns in monkey somatosensory cortex (SII) during a passive touch roughness classification task
Dale Purves, MD
Research Professor Emeritus of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, Duke University
Faculty Member, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, 1973-1985, Department of Neuroscience, 1985-2004
Vinod Rao, MD, PhD
Medical Director, West End Clinic, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Email: vinodrao@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Lawrence Snyder, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2009): Perceptual and neural correlates of expectations
Yi Rao, PhD
Director and Principal Investigator of IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research at Peking University.
Faculty Member, Department of Neuroscience, 1994-2004
Naveen Reddy, PhD
Scientist, Epigenetics at Chroma Medicine
Faculty advisor: Azad Bonni, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2020): Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of cerebellar development and function
Lorna Role, PhD
Senior Investigator, Circuits, Synapses, and Molecular Signaling Section, NINDS
Andrea Gebhart Rommel, PhD
Scientific Writer/Editor
Faculty advisor: W. Thomas Thach, MD, PhD
Dissertation (2002): The specific contributions of the posterolateral cerebellum to verbal and spatial learning in humans
Joshua Sanes, PhD
Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Faculty Member, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, 1980-1985, Department of Neuroscience, 1985-2004
Anneliese Schaefer, JD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Washington University School of Medicine
- Email: amschaefer@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Michael Nonet, PhD
Dissertation (2001): A molecular genetic analysis of synapse formation in C. elegans
Faculty advisors: Jeff Lichtman, MD, PhD and Joshua Sanes, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, 2001-2004
Laurent Seugnet, PhD
Principal Investigator, Lyon Neuroscience Research Center
- Email: laurent.seugnet@inserm.fr
Faculty advisor: Paul Shaw, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow: 2004-2008
Weikang Shi, PhD
Wu Tsai Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
- Email: weikang.shi@yale.edu
Faculty advisor: Camillo Padoa-Schioppa, PhD
Dissertation (2022): Causal function and bias correlation of the orbitofrontal cortex in economic choices
Yiming Shi, MS
Data analyst, China Industrial Bank in Shanghai, P.R. China
- Phone: +86 15201730559
- Email: mustang00@126.com
Faculty advisor: Guoyan Zhao, PhD
Thesis (2021): An R package for analyzing ligand-receptor interactions using snRNA-seq data
Yizhe Song, MS
DBBS PhD program student, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Email: y.song@wustl.edu
Faculty advisor: Guoyan Zhao, PhD
Thesis (2020): Reveal true transcription regulators by combining multiple computational tools
Daniel Soppet, PhD
Director, Laboratory of Molecular Technology, National Institutes of Health
- Email: soppetdr@mail.nih.gov
Faculty advisor: Mark Willard, PhD
Dissertation (1989): Analysis of a polymorphism of the high molecular weight neurofilament polypoptide in rabbits
Faneng Sun, PhD
Director of BioTx & CMC Development, Codexis Inc
Faculty advisor: Valeria Cavalli, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow, 2007-2011