Mark L. Andermann, PhD
manderma@bidmc.harvard.edu
Principal Investigator - Professor of Medicine, BIDMC
Hakan Kucukdereli, PhD, Postdoc
hkucukde@bidmc.harvard.edu
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, BBRF Young Investigator Grant (2021-2022)
Marta Porniece, PhD, Postdoc
mporniec@bidmc.harvard.edu
Joint postdoc with Maria Lehtinen
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Walter Benjamin Fellow (2023-2025)
Kiersten Ruda, PhD, Postdoc
kruda@bidmc.harvard.edu
NIH F32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2022-2024)
STEM writing specialist at Harvard’s Fellowships and Writing Center
Stephen Zhang, PhD, Postdoc
x.stephen.zhang@gmail.com
Lefler Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022)
Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship (2022-2023)
NIDDK K99/R00 Award (2023-Current)
Jonnathan Singh Alvarado, PhD, Postdoc
jsinghal@bidmc.harvard.edu
NINDS K99/R00 Award (2024-Current)
Harvard Brain Initiative Postdoctoral Pioneers Grant (2024-Current)
Harvard Mind Brain Behavior Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2024)
Rachel Essner, PhD Student
ressner@g.harvard.edu
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2019-2024)
NIDCD Kirschstein NRSA F31 Fellow (2022)
Kathryn Evans, MD/PhD Student
kathryn_evans@hms.harvard.edu
NIDA Kirschstein NRSA F30 Fellow (2023)
Crystian Massengill, PhD Student
crystian_massengill@g.harvard.edu
Ellen R and Melvin J. Gordon Fellow (2024-2025)
Zachary Stolberg, Research Technician
zstolber@bidmc.harvard.edu
Charlotte Ausfahl, Co-Op Student
ausfahl.c@northeastern.edu
Praneel Sunkavalli, Research Technician
psunkava@bidmc.harvard.edu
Juliana Colaccino, Co-Op Student
julianacolaccino@gmail.com
Alumni
Nghia Nguyen, PhD Student
nguyen@g.harvard.edu
NDSEG Graduate Fellow (2020 - 2022)
HHMI Gilliam Fellow (2020 - 2024)
Christian Burgess, PhD, Postdoc
cburgess@bidmc.harvard.edu
Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Eating Disorders Research (2013 - 2016)
Next Step: Assistant Professor at the Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute and Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan
Veronica Diaz, Co-op Student
diaz.v@husky.neu.edu
Next Step: Graduate student (PhD) at NYU Neuroscience
Jesseba Fernando, Sr. Research Associate
jfernan8@bidmc.harvard.edu
Next Step: Graduate Student (PhD) at Network Science Institute at Northeastern University
Kayla Fernando, Research Technician
kfernan1@bidmc.harvard.edu
Next Step: Graduate Student (PhD) in the Neurobiology Program at Duke University: Hull Lab
Vanessa Flores-Maldonado, Research Technician
viflores@bidmc.harvard.edu
Next Step: Development Coordinator at Prysm
Alex Fratzl, MS Student
alex.fratzl@epfl.ch
Bertarelli Fellow (2016 - 2017)
Next Step: Graduate Student (PhD) in the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL: Hofer Lab
Nick Jikomes, PhD Student
njikomes@g.harvard.edu
Sackler Scholar Graduate Fellow in Psychobiology (2015 - 2016)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2012 - 2016)
Next Step: Senior Science Advisor at Leafly
Liang Liang, PhD, Postdoc
Joint postdoc with Chinfei Chen
lliang1@bidmc.harvard.edu
Life Sciences-Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain Fellow (2015 - 2018)
Next Step: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine. Visit the Liang lab.
Yoav Livneh, PhD, Postdoc
Joint postdoc with Brad Lowell
ylivneh@bidmc.harvard.edu
European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Long-term Fellow (2014 - 2016)
Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Fellowship (2018 - 2020)
Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Pilot & Feasibility Grant (2018 - 2020)
Next Step: Senior Scientist, Department of Neurobiology, Weizmann Institute of Science. Visit the Yoav Livneh's Lab.
Andrew Lutas, PhD, Postdoc
alutas@bidmc.harvard.edu
Hilda and Preston Davis Foundation Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (2019 - 2021)
NIH F32 Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2017 - 2019)
Boston Nutrition Obesity Research Center (BNORC) Pilot & Feasibility Grant (2021)
Next Step: Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator at the NIH NIDDK. Visit the Lutas Lab!
Yael Mandelblat-Cerf, PhD, Postdoc
Joint postdoc with Brad Lowell
ycerf@bidmc.harvard.edu
Charles King Trust Postdoctoral Fellow (2015 - 2017)
Next Step: Quantitative Translational Neuroscientist at Pfizer
Kelly McGuire, PhD Student
kmcguire@g.harvard.edu
Sackler Scholar in Psychobiology (2019 - 2020)
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2016-2021)
Next step: Research Engineer at Perceptive Automata.
Rohan Ramesh, PhD Student
ramesh@fas.harvard.edu
NIH F31 Predoctoral Research Fellow (2015 - 2018)
Next Step: Insight Data Science Fellow
Jasmine Reggiani, PhD Student
jreggiani@fas.harvard.edu
Next Step: Postdoctoral Fellow in Tiago Branco’s Lab
Fred Shipley, PhD Student
Joint student with Maria Lehtinen
shipley@g.harvard.edu
NSF Graduate Research Fellow (2017-2022)
Inga Shurnayte, Co-op Student
shurnayte.i@husky.neu.edu
Next Step: Research Technician at the Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine: Liang lab.
Jeff Zaremba, PhD, Postdoc
jzaremba@bidmc.harvard.edu
Next Step: Senior Data Science Engineer at Perceptive Automata