Alumni of the Greenberg Lab
Postdoctoral Fellows
2021 – 2024
Xin Gu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School
2018 – 2023
Christopher Davis, Ph.D.
Scientific Research Manager, Apertura Gene Therapy
2015 – 2022
Elizabeth Pollina, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
2016 – 2022
Onur Dagliyan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute
2015 – 2022
Lisa Boxer, Ph.D.
Stadtman Investigator, Laboratory of Genome Integrity, National Institutes of Health
2015 – 2021
Siniša Hrvatin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology, MIT; Member, Whitehead Institute
2012 – 2021
Gabriella Boulting, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
2018 – 2021
Amelia Chang, Ph.D.
Associate, McKinsey & Company
2015 – 2020
Hume Akahori Stroud, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, University of Texas Southwestern
2015 – 2020
Brian Kalish, M.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, and Neonatologist, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
2014 – 2020
Lucas Cheadle, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
2014 – 2019
William Renthal, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
2010 – 2019
Bulent Ataman, Ph.D.
Principal Scientist, Novartis Neuroscience
2012 – 2018
Thomas Vierbuchen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Developmental Biology Program, Center for Stem Cell Biology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2009 – 2016
Timothy Cherry, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Developmental and Regenerative Medicine, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Seattle, WA
2013 – 2016
Susan Su, Ph.D.
Investigator, Neuroscience Department, Biogen
2008 – 2015
Ivo Spiegel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Brain Sciences, Weitzman Institute, Rehovot, Israel
2009 – 2015
Harrison Gabel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Washington University School of Medicine
2008 – 2015
Daniel Ebert, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2007 – 2013
Henry Ho, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California, Davis
2007 – 2012
Brenda Bloodgood, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego
2006 – 2011
Seth Margolis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University Medical School
2006 – 2011
Jesse Gray, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Scientific Operations and Strategy, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Allen Institute
2004 – 2011
Zachary Wills, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
2002 – 2011
Sarah Ross, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
2002 – 2010
Tae-Kyung Kim, Ph.D.
Professor, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea
2006 – 2008
Yuanyuan (Jackie) Hua, Ph.D.
Great Point Partners, Investment Management, New York, NY
2005 – 2008
Rikinari Hanayama, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University, Japan
2002 – 2009
Zhaolan (Joe) Zhou, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania
2002 – 2008
Yong-Chao Ma, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Physiology and Neurology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
2002 – 2007
Suzanne Paradis, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biology, Brandeis University
2002 – 2006
Gerhard Schratt, Ph.D.
Professor, Institute of Physiological Chemistry, University of Marburg, Germany
2000 – 2008
Yingxi Lin, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry, Division Chief for the Psychiatry Research Division, UTSW in Dallas
2000 – 2006, 2008 – Present
Eric Griffith, Ph.D.
Director of Research Development, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
2000 – 2005
Mustafa Sahin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
1999 – 2006
Kimberly Tolias, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Baylor University
1999 – 2005
James Spotts, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle, WA
1999 – 2005
Christopher Cowan, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina
1998 – 2003
Anne Brunet, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
1998 – 2005
Anne West, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center
1998 – 2002
Yoshiyuki Morishima, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Biological Research Laboratories, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
1997 – 2002
Ricardo Dolmetsch, Ph.D.
Global Head of Neuroscience, Novartis, Cambridge, MA
1997 – 2002
Matthew Dalva, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell and Molecular Biology, Director of the Tulane Brain Institute, Tulane
1997 – 1999
Yukiko Gotoh, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, International
Research Center for Neurointelligence, The University of Tokyo, Japan
1996 – 2001
Yi Sun, Ph.D.
Professor, The Brain Cognition and Brain Disease Institute of Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
1996 – 1999
Frédéric Saudou, Ph.D.
Director of the Grenoble Center of Excellence in Neurodegeneration (GREEN), Grenoble, France
1995 – 2003
Jon Kornhauser, Ph.D.
Scientific Editor, Cell Signaling Technology, Boston, MA
1995 – 2001
Steven Shamah, Ph.D.
X-Body Biosciences, Waltham, MA
1995 – 1999
Elizabeth Thiele, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Carol & James Hercot Center for Tuberous Sclerosis Center
Director, Pediatric Epilepsy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
1995 – 1999, 2011 – 2013
Xu Tao, Ph.D.
Investigator, Neuroscience Department, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
1995 – 1999
Ann-Bin Shyu, Ph.D.
Professor and Jesse H. Jones Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas
1995 – 1998
Steven Finkbeiner, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Taube-Koret Center for Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Professor of Neurology and Physiology, University of California, San Francisco
1994 – 1999
Zixu Mao, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine
1994 – 1998
Lisa Crossley, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
1993 – 1997
Henryk Dudek, Ph.D.
Executive Director, RNAi Discovery, Global Nucleic Acid Therapies, Novo Nordisk
1993 – 1996
Zhengui Xia, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health, University of Washington
1991 – 1995
David Ginty, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
1991 – 1995
Anirvan Ghosh, Ph.D.
Head of Research and Early Development, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1991 – 1995
David Frank, M.D., Ph.D.
1990 – 1995
Ana Zubiaga, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Genetics, University of the Basque Country, Spain
1989 – 1992
Hilmar Bading, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1988 – 1993
Ravindra Misra, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Medical College of Wisconsin
1988 – 1992
Susan Schiavi, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Director, Discovery and Translation, Genzyme Corporation, Boston
Graduate Students
2017 – 2023
Daniel Gilliam, Ph.D.
Consultant, Boston Consulting Group
2018 – 2023
GiHun Choi, Ph.D.
Manager, TiumBio, South Korea
2018 – 2022
Marty Yang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Vijay Ramani, University of California, San Francisco
2015 – 2021
Lynn Yap, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Richard Axel, Columbia University
2012 – 2020
M. Aurel Nagy, M.D., Ph.D.
Opthalmology Resident, University of California, San Francisco
2012 – 2019
Christopher Tzeng, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Kang Shen, Stanford University
2011 – 2018
Emi Ling, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Steven McCarroll, Harvard Medical School and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
2012 – 2017
Ershela Durresi, M.D., Ph.D.
Internal Medicine, New York
2012 – 2016
Benyam Zerihun-Kinde, Ph.D.
2010 – 2015
Caleigh Mandel-Brehm, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Joseph DeRisi, University of California, San Fransisco
2010 – 2015
Nikhil Sharma, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of David Ginty, Harvard Medical School
2010 – 2015
Mike Susman, Ph.D.
Medical Student, Harvard Medical School
2009 – 2015
John Salogiannis, Ph.D.
2011 – 2014
Milena Andzelm, Ph.D.
Medical Student, Harvard Medical School
2007 – 2012
Alan Mardinly, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Hillel Adesnik, University of California, Berkeley
2007 – 2013
Athar N. Malik, M.D., Ph.D.
Neurosurgical Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
2007 – 2012
Michael Soskis, Ph.D.
Consultant, The Bridgespan Group
2004 – 2011
Sonia Cohen, Ph.D.
Surgical Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital
2003 – 2009
Elizabeth Hong, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology
2003 – 2009
Steve Flavell, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 – 2007
Dana Harrar, Ph.D.
Medical Resident, Children’s Hospital Boston
2001 – 2009
Paul Greer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Worcester
2001 – 2007
Ray Shao, Ph.D.
Medical Student, Harvard Medical School
2000 – 2007
Jay Bikoff, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
1999 – 2003
Hien Tran, M.D., Ph.D.
Mohs Micrographic Surgery Surgeon and Attending, Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Irvine, CA
1998 – 2004
Wen Chen, Ph.D.
Program Director, Sensory and Motor Disorders of Aging, National Institutes of Health
1997 – 2002
Mari (Takasu) Scheiffele, Ph.D.
Global Head of Strategy & Operations, Novartis, Basel, Switzerland
1996 – 2003
Elizabeth Nigh, Ph.D.
Scientific Officer, California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
1996 – 2002
Michael Lin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University
1995 – 2002
Sandeep Robert Datta, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
1995 – 2001
Mireya Nadal-Vicens, M.D., Ph.D.
Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
1995 – 2000
Adam Shaywitz, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Medical Director, BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc.
1993 – 1997
Jun Xing, Ph.D.
Biomedical Management Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China
1992 – 1996
Jennifer Brown, M.D.,Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
1991 – 2000
Azad Bonni, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience and Chairman of the Department of Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine Vice President, Head of Neuroscience & Rare Diseases at Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche, Basel
1990 – 1995
Laura Rosen, M.D., Ph.D.
Vice President, Translational Research and Early Clinical (TREC), Takeda Pharmaceuticals
1989 – 1995
Cynthia Miranti, Ph.D.
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of Arizona, College of Medicine Tucson
1989 – 1997
Seth Field, M.D., Ph.D.
Investigator, Harrington Discovery Institute
Professor of Medicine/Endocrinology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
1987 – 1993
Margaret Thompson, Ph.D.
Director, Molecular Genetics Core Facility, Mental Retardation Research Center, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA
1986 – 1992
Victor Rivera, Ph.D.
Vice President of Preclinical and Translational Research, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA