people
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Associate Professor (tenured), Columbia Dpt. of Biological Sciences
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Principal Investigator, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
Ph.D., Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania
B.S., Animal Science, North Carolina A&T State University
Yasumi Nakayama
Title: HHMI Lab Manager II
B.A. in Biological Sciences, Rutgers University
yn2502 [at] columbia.edu
Postdocs
Sasha Fulton
Title: HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow
PhD: Ian Maze Lab, Mount Sinai Medicine/HHMI
M.A., Hunter College
B.A., Columbia University
slf2127 [at] columbia.edu
Yuki Haba
Title: Leon Levy Scholar in Neuroscience
PhD: Lindy McBride Lab, Princeton University
M.A., Columbia University
B.A., Tokyo University
yh2778 [at] columbia.edu
Aleksander Kaplan
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Hagai Bergman Lab, Hebrew University
B.S., University of Maryland Baltimore County
ak5200 [at] columbia.edu
Briana Nixon
Title: HHMI-LSRF Fellow
PhD: Ming Li Lab, Weill Cornell Medicine
B.S., Wesleyan University
bn2369 [at] columbia.edu
Anastasia-Maria Zavitsanou
Title: Simons Junior Fellow
PhD: Sergei Koralov & Thales Papagiannakopoulos Labs, NYU
B.S., Imperial College London
az2764 [at] columbia.edu
Anna Zhukovskaya
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Ilana Witten Lab, Princeton/HHMI
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
az2171 [at] columbia.edu
Graduate students (not taking rotation students for 2025-2026)
Brittany Bistis
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Yale University
bb2977 [at] columbia.edu
William Foster
Title: Neurobiology and Behavior PhD student
B.S., Haverford College
wf2284 [at] columbia.edu
Preston Sheng
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Emory University
ss6573 [at] columbia.edu
Isabella Succi
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., St. Joseph’s University
is2687 [at] columbia.edu
Wesley Yu-Young Tsai
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Johns Hopkins University
yt2882 [at] columbia.edu
Viviana Vinci
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
M.S., ETH Zurich
B.S., Northeastern University
vv2373 [at] columbia.edu
Tate Yawitz
Title: Neurobiology and Behavior PhD student
M.S., LMU Munich
B.S., University of Pittsburgh
tay2104 [at] columbia.edu
Staff
Simon Toney
Title: Research technician
B.S., Columbia University
sd3525 [at] columbia.edu
Undergraduate students
Carolina Barbolla
cb3803 [at] columbia.edu
Erin Yoo
ey2424 [at] columbia.edu