people
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor
Associate Professor, Columbia University Dpt. of Biological Sciences
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Principal Investigator, Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute
PhD, Cell and Molecular Biology, UPenn
BA, Animal Science, North Carolina A&T State University
Aleyna Silcott
Title: Administrative Lab Manager
B.S., Ankara University, Turkey
aab2259 [at] columbia.edu
Postdocs
Sasha Fulton
Title: NIH D-SPAN F99/K00 Fellow; UNCF EE Just Fellow; BWF PDEP Fellow
Ph.D., Mount Sinai Medicine
B.S., Columbia University
slf2127 [at] columbia.edu
Yuki Haba
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.S., University of Tokyo
yh2778 [at] columbia.edu
Aleksander Kaplan
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Hebrew University
B.S., University of Maryland Baltimore Country
ak5200 [at] columbia.edu
Briana Nixon
Title: LSRF Fellow
Ph.D., Cornell University
B.S., Wesleyan University
bn2369 [at] columbia.edu
Anastasia Zavitsanou
Title: Simons Junior Fellow
Ph.D., New York University
B.S., Imperial College London
az2764 [at] columbia.edu
Anna Zhukovskaya
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Princeton University
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
az2171 [at] columbia.edu
Graduate students
*not accepting graduate students for 2024-2025
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, joint with Itamar Kahn
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
B.S., Northeastern University
vv2373 [at] columbia.edu
Research technician
Alexis Knight
B.S., Columbia University
aak2220 [at] columbia.edu
Undergraduate students
Amanda Arnold
ala2214 [at] barnard.edu
Ashar Khan
adk2176 [at] columbia.edu
Jake Kothandaraman
kothaj02 [at] nyu.edu
Sofia Marin-Quiros
sam2451 [at] columbia.edu
Simon Toney
sd3525 [at] columbia.edu
Leah Yadessa
lay2110 [at] columbia.edu