Alumni of the Greenberg Lab

Postdoctoral Fellows

2015 – 2022

Elizabeth Pollina, Ph.D.

Assitant Professor of Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis


2016 – 2022

Onur Dagliyan, Ph.D.

Assitant 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


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.

Senior Scientist, Neurogenetics, Merck


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 Neurobiology, Weitzman Institute, Rehovot, Israel


 2009 – 2015

Harrison Gabel, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Washington University, St Louis, MO


 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.

Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, University of California, Davis


2007 – 2012

Brenda Bloodgood, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego


2006 – 2011

Seth Margolis, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University Medical School


2006 – 2011

Jesse Gray, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School


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.

Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center


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.

Associate 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.

Associate 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.

Associate Professor, McGovern Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


2000 – 2006, 2008 – Present

Eric Griffith, Ph.D.

Senior Research Associate, 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.

Associate 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.

Associate Professor, Psychiatry, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School


1998 – 2003

Anne Brunet, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine


1998 – 2005

Anne West, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate 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.

Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA


1997 – 1999

Yukiko Gotoh, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Tokyo, Japan


1996 – 2001

Yi Sun, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles


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.

Associate Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School


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.

Neurology Resident, University of Colorado Anschutz


​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.

Opthamalogy Resident, University of California, San Francisco


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.

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School


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.

Assistant Professor at California Institute of Technology


2003 – 2009

Steve Flavell, Ph.D.

Assistant 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 and Chair, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Washington University Medical School, Saint Louis, MO


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.

Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of California, San Diego, CA


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


1986 – 1990

Morgan Sheng, Ph.D.

Vice President of Neuroscience, Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, CA