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Lab Members

Meet our neighbors:

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Nicholas Bellono

Principal Investigator
 

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Rebecka Sepela

NRSA, Harvard Brain Initiative, Warren Alpert, & K99/R00 Postdoctoral Fellow
 

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Pablo Villar

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

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Loranzie Rogers

HHMI Hanna Gray, Helen Hay Whitney & BWF PDEP Postdoctoral Fellow

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Rishav Mitra

Harvard Brain Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow

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Trey Scott

Joint MBB &
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow with Pierce Lab

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Maxwell Coyle

NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow

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Isle Bastille

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Anastasiia Sukalskaia

SNF Postdoctoral Fellow

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Wendy Valencia Montoya

Harvard Junior Fellow

Weintraub Award

Dobzhansky Prize
John Maynard Smith Prize

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Matthew Capek

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

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Diana Redlund

Lab Administrator

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Brittany Walsh

Aquatics Facility Manager

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Abby Witherell

Visiting Undergraduate Fellow

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Isabel Castro

Visiting Undergraduate Fellow

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Emma Gallagher

Visiting Undergraduate Fellow

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Sonia Murthy

Harvard University Undergraduate

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Griffin Egan

Harvard University Undergraduate

Lab Alumni

Postdocs & Graduate Students

SNF Postdoctoral Fellow

Lena van Giesen

current Associate Professor at
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

NRSA Predoctoral Fellow

Keiko Weir

current Research Analyst at

Dicerna Pharmaceuticals

NSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Patric Vaelli

current Research Scientist at
Sophion Bioscience

NSF Predoctoral Fellow

Lily He

current Postdoctoral Fellow at
Brigham Women's / Harvard Medical School

NSF, CKT, & HBI Postdoctoral Fellow

Corey Allard

current Assistant Professor at
Harvard Medical School,
Cell Biology Dept. 

Research Assistants & Laboratory Technicians

Research Assistant

Corie Grewal

current graduate student at
Duke Universit
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Research Assistant

Jerusha Brendel

current Research Associate at

Arkuda Therapeutics

Research Assistant

Christina Liu

current Laboratory Manager at

Dr. Thomas Look Lab, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Research Assistant

Stephanie Krueger

current Graduate Student at University of Chicago

Research Assistant

Peter Kilian

current Assistant Vivarium Manager at UC Santa Cruz

Research Assistant

Tessa Hautala

current graduate student
at Max Planck Institute for
Biological Intelligence

Research Assistant

Anik Grearson

current graduate student
at UC Santa Cruz

Research Assistant

Olivia Leto

current graduate student
at Duke University

Laboratory Technician

Jack Thibodeau

current graduate student at
MIT

Research Assistant

Moreira Salsman

current graduate student
at Indiana University

Undergraduates

Harvard University

Isabella Shaw

Julia London

Braxton Marion

Selorna Ackuayi

Sophia Montgomery
Abby Weber

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Northeasten University COOP Program

Rachel Lines

Charlotte Heacock

Allie Nowicki

Nicole Mongillo

Abigail Moulton

Allison Shupp

Christopher Ammann

Jeremy Green

Ainsley Thompson
Collin Rydecki
William Stuart
Kaitlyn Pincus
Mary Harrington
Kelly Hathaway
Sara Perkins
Brian Rivera

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