Former Postdoctoral Fellows

Preston Garraghty (1984-1987)

Position: Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Indiana University.

Ronald Langdon (1987-1990)

Position: Expert Scientific Writer, Novartis Ireland.

Sarah Pallas (1988-1992)

Position: Professor, Dept. of Biology, Georgia State University.

Darren Gitelman (1990-1991)

Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurology, Northwestern University School of Medicine.

Ary Ramoa (1990-1991)

Position: Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, Medical College of Virginia (deceased).

Laurie Carman (1990-1992)

Position: Staff Scientist, Merck AG, Frankfurt.

Cheryl White (1990-1993)

Position: Plastic Surgeon, Texas.

Monica Santos-Rocha (1990-1993)

Position: Professor, Inst. of Biophysics, Federal Univ. of Rio de Janeiro.

Sacha Nelson (1991-1994)

Position: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Biology, Brandeis University.

Francisco Clasca (1992-1995)

Position: Professor, Dept. of Anatomy, University of Madrid.

S. Chenchal Rao (1992-1995)

Position: Research Scientist, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Dae-Shik Kim (1994-1996)

Position: Professor, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.

David Somers (1992-1996)

Position: Professor and Chair, Dept. of Psychology, Boston University.

Karina Cramer (1992-1997)

Position: Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine.

Jitendra Sharma (1994-1997)

Position: Research Scientist, MIT.

Cathy Leamey (1996-1998, 2000-2003)

Position: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Physiology, University of Sydney, Australia.

Chrystal Ho Pao (1997-1998)

Position: Professor, Dept. of Biology, Trinity International Univ., Chicago.

George Kalarickal (1998-1999)

Position: Research Staff, Digital Technology Inc.

Casto Rivadulla (1998-1999)

Position: Associate Professor, University of Coruna, Spain.

Valentin Dragoi (1998-2003)

Position: Associate Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of Texas – Houston Medical School.

Jorge Marino (2002-2003)

Position: Research Scientist, University of Coruna, Spain.

Alvin Lyckman (1998-2004)

Position: Assistant Professor, Tufts University and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, Boston.

David Lyon (2002-2004)

Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology and Anatomy, University of California, Irvine.

Serkan Oray (2004)

Position: UBS Pharma, Brussels.

Jessica Newton (2001-2004)

Position: Helix Medical Communications LLC, San Francisco.

Ania Majewska (2000-2005)

Position: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neurobiology, University of Rochester, NY.

Paul George (2005-2006)

Position: Resident, Harvard Medical School.

Anna Bolteus (2005-2007)

Position: MRC consultant, Sweden.

Leigh Carmody (2006-2008)

Position: Scientist, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA.

Audra Van Wart (2006-2009)

Position: Editor, Neuron, Cambridge MA.

Amanda Mower (2004-2009)

Position: Assoc. Scientific Director, Synapse Medical Communications, New York.

Daniela Tropea (2003-2009)

Position: Lecturer, Trinity College, Dublin.

Hongbo Yu (2002-2009)

Position: Assistant Professor, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai.

Rong Mao (2005-2010)

Position: Research Scientist, Stanford University School of Medicine.

Beata Jarosiewicz (2006-2010)

Position: Staff Scientist, Cyberkinetics Inc., Providence, Rhode Island.

Damon Page (2004-2010)

Position: Assistant Professor, Scripps Research Institute, Florida.

James Schummers (2003-2010)

Position: Group Leader, Max Planck Institute, Florida.

Nathan Wilson (2006-2012)

Position: Chief Technology Officer, Nara Logics, Cambridge, MA.

Show Ming Kwok (2009-2013)

Position: Scientist, Edison Pharmaceuticals.

Jorge Castro (2008-2013)

Position: IP and Tech Licensing Consultant.

Gertrudis Perea (2010-2013)

Position: Permanent Scientist, Spanish Research Council, Cajal Institute, Madrid.

Ikue Nagakura (2010-2014)

Position: Research Scientist, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston.

Jeremy Petravicz (2010-2018)

Position: Technical Editor, Wiley.

Vardhan Dani (2012-2014)

Position: Scientist, Inscopix, CA.

Sami El-Boustani (2011-2015)

Position: Research Scientist and Marie Curie Fellow, EPFL Lausanne.

Nikolaos Mellios (2009-2015)

Position: Assistant Professor, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Michael Goard (2010-2015)

Position: Assistant Professor, Departments of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Abhishek Banerjee (2010-2015)

Position: Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle, UK.

Jamie Benoit (2015-2017)

Position: Senior Scientist, Axovant Sciences.

Jacque Ip (2014-2020)

Position: Assistant Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Rafiq Huda (2014-2019)

Position: Assistant Professor, Rutgers University.

Ming Hu (2015-2020)

Position: Research Scientist, Baylor University.

Keji Li (2015-2020)

Position: Quantitative Developer, Acadia Asset Management.

Elie Adam (2017-2021)

Position: Research Scientist, MIT.

Chloe Delepine (2016-2021)

Position: Scientist, Agenus.

Vincent Breton-Provencher (2014-2021)

Assistant Professor, University of Laval.

Murat Yildirim (2015-2022)

Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.

Grayson Sipe (2016-2022)

Position: Research Scientist, Sur lab, MIT.

From March 1, 2022: Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Penn State University.




Former Graduate Students

Anna W. Roe, Ph.D. (1991)

Functional transformations of visual input by auditory thalamus and cortex: An experimentally induced visual pathway in ferrets. Current position: Director, Zhejiang University Institute of Neuroscience and Technology, China; Professor, Oregon Health and Sciences University.

Young H. Kwon, Ph.D (1991)

Functional role of neurotransmitters in the visual thalamus. Current position: Clifford M. and Ruth M. Altermatt Professor of Glaucoma; Professor of Opthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Iowa School of Medicine.

Jong-On Hahm, Ph.D. (1991)

Influence of the target on development of the ferret retinogeniculate projection. Current position: Distinguished Senior Fellow, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University.

Manuel Esguerra, Ph.D. (1991)

Synaptic transmission in the ferret lateral geniculate nucleus in vitro: Modulation by membrane voltage and neurotransmitters. Current position: Senior Research Associate, University of Minnesota School of Medicine.

Diana K. Smetters, Ph.D. (1995)

Electrotonic structure and synaptic integration in cortical neurons. Current position: Google Inc.

Louis J. Toth, Ph.D. (1995)

Layout and connectivity of orientation domains in mammalian visual cortex: A physiological description. Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Boston University School of Medicine.

Bhavin Sheth, Ph.D. (1996)

Representation of a class of subjective contours in visual cortex. Current position: Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Houston.

Alessandra Angelucci, Ph.D. (1996)

Experimental retinal projections to the auditory thalamus: morphology, development and effects on auditory cortical organization. Current position: Professor, Program in Neuroscience and Department of Ophthalmology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.

Christopher Moore, Ph.D. (1998)

Some principles of somatosensory cortical organization in rats and humans. Current position: Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University.

Carsten Hohnke, Ph.D. (1999)

The development of functional inputs to a neural circuit: Synaptic strength before and after the activity-dependent maturation of the retinogeniculate system. Current position: Senior Vice-President, Michigan Economic Development Corporation.

James Schummers, Ph.D. (2003)

Examination of inhomogeneities in the representation of orientation in the primary visual cortex (area 17) of the cat. Current position: Group Leader, Max Planck Institute, Florida.

Serkan Oray, Ph.D. (2004)

Structural dynamics and synaptic development in the visual system. Current position: Senior Director, Device and Technology, UCB Pharma, Brussels.

Charlene Ellsworth, Ph.D. (2004)

Intrinsic constraints on cross-modal plasticity. Current position: Internist/ General Internal Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Providence.

Brandon Farley, Ph.D. (2006)

Principles underlying the organization and development of feature maps in the visual cortex. Current position: Scientist, Biogen-Idec Inc.

Beau Cronin, Ph.D. (2008)

Quantifying uncertainty in computational neuroscience with Bayesian statistical inference. Current position: Chief Scientist, Beseeq.

Cortina McCurry, Ph.D. (2009)

Deficient plasticity in the visual cortex of Arc null mice. Current position: Principal, Boston Consulting Group.

Sam H. Horng, Ph.D. (2009)

Identification and functional characterization of two patterning genes, Zic4 and Ten_m3, in topographic map formation of the visual pathway. Current position: Fellow in Neurology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Caroline Runyan, Ph.D. (2012)

Structure, function and circuits of inhibitory neuron subtypes in the visual cortex. Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh.

Naiyan Chen, Ph.D. (2013)

Cell-type specific cholinergic modulation of the cortex. Current position: Scientist, Novartis Inc.

Rodrigo Garcia, Ph.D. (2016)

Cell-type specific contributions to Rett Syndrome: neuronal and astrocytic signaling and sensory processing. Current position: Postdoctoral fellow, MIT.

Rajeev Rikhye, Ph.D. (2016)

The mechanisms of reliable coding in mouse visual cortex. Current position: Researcher, Vicarious AI.

Danielle Feldman, Ph.D. (2016)

Human induced pluripotent stem cell models of Rett Syndrome reveal deficits in early cortical development. Current position: Seven Bridges Genomics, Cambridge.

Gerald Pho, Ph.D. (2017)

Sensorimotor transformation and information coding across cortex during perceptual decisions. Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University.

Marvin Nayan, Ph.D. (2020)

Local regulation of experience-dependent synaptic plasticity by the noncoding exonic circular RNA circHomer1.

Nhat Minh Le, Ph.D. (2022)

Behavioral strategies and neural mechanisms of dynamic foraging. Current position: Biomedical Data Scientist, PathAI

Yi Ning Leow, Ph.D. (2022)

Multiplexed representations of uncertainty by mouse pulvinar-prefrontal projections during goal-directed behaviors. Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

K. Guadalupe Cruz, Ph.D. (2022)

Prefrontal-collicular interactions in visually driven behavior. Current position: Technology Specialist, Wolf, Greenfield and Sacks, PC .