People

Alex Abate

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For me, home is: Houston Texas Prior degree(s): B.S. in Computation and Cognition at MIT, class of 2022 Research experience before PiN: I worked as an undergraduate researcher in Nancy Kanwisher’s lab studying the human ventral visual stream with fMRI and...

Alireza Abolghasemi Dehaqani

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Thesis advisor: Bernardo Sabatini Rotation labs: Bob Datta, Bernardo Sabatini, Dragana Rogulja, Carlos Ponce For me, home is: Tehran, Iran Prior degree(s): B.S. in Mathematics (Tehran University), M.S. in Cognitive Science - Cognitive Neuroscience track...

Aisha Ademola

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For me, home is: Gibsonton, Florida and Ibadan, Nigeria Prior degree(s): B.S. in Biomedical Science and a minor in Aging Science at the University of South Florida Research experience before PiN: I worked as a research technician at Cold Spring Harbor...

Mark Albers

albers.mark@mgh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Neurology

The goal of the research in the Albers lab is to elucidate the pathogenic actions and physiological functions of genes and mechanisms that cause neurodegenerative disease and develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Our principal hypothesis is...

Corey Allard

corey_allard@hms.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor

Our lab studies the molecular and cellular basis of novel organismic physiology and behavior. We emphasize curiosity-driven science and exploration, using comparative approaches featuring a range of unusual and specialized organisms that are uniquely...

Mark Andermann

manderma@bidmc.harvard.edu

Professor in Medicine

The goal of my lab is to understand the role of corticolimbic areas in guiding attention to, and imagery, learning and memory of, motivationally-salient external and interoceptive stimuli. To understand these neural phenomena at the level of local...

Jon Andersen

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Thesis advisor: Pascal Kaeser Rotation lab(s): Wade Regehr, Pascal Kaeser For me, home is: The Midwest (Chicago & Detroit) Undergraduate degree(s): BS Neuroscience; Cellular and Molecular Research experience before PiN: Neurodegenerative disease, cortical...

Matthew Peter Anderson

mpanders@bidmc.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Pathology

Matthew P. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D., is Director of Neuropathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Neuropathologist of Autism BrainNet; and Faculty, Harvard Medical School Ph.D. Program. He won the International Distinguished Dissertation Award (top...

Irene Antony

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Thesis lab: Christopher Walsh For me, home is: Long Island, NY Prior degree(s): B.A. in Neuroscience from Washington University in St. Louis. Currently an MD/PhD student at HMS! Research experience before PiN: Undergraduate research in Dr. Kristen Kroll’s...

Destinee Aponte

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Thesis advisor: Christopher Harvey Rotation lab(s): Bernardo Sabatini, Christopher Harvey, Bob Datta For me, home is: Miami, FL Undergraduate degree(s): BA Biopsychology Research experience before PiN: Before PiN, I studied how the auditory cortex...

Mandana Arbab

mandana.arbab@childrens.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor

We are a collaborative group of genome editing scientists at the Translational Neuroscience Center of Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School department of Neurology. We strive to develop gene-based therapeutics for genetic neurological...

Paola Arlotta

Paola_Arlotta@harvard.edu

Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

We are interested in defining the molecular pathways that during development of the mammalian cerebral cortex direct the differentiation of neural progenitors/stem cells into distinct types of projection neurons, and the establishment of their...