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Ishmail received a doctorate in cell and molecular biology from UPenn. He performed postdoctoral research at Weill Cornell and UPenn, and in 2018 he joined the faculty at UPenn. In 2021, he was recruited to Columbia University, where he is currently an assistant professor of biological sciences in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
Select Honors and Awards | curriculum vitae
- NIH DP2 New Innovator Award (2022)
- Chan Zuckerberg Science Diversity Leadership Award (2022)
- Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences (2022)
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellow (2021)
- Kavli Fellow, National Academy of Sciences (2021)
- Rita Allen Foundation Scholar (2020)
- NIH K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (2017)
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP Fellow (2015)
Features/Interviews
In the lab with Ishmail Abdus-Saboor (YouTube) (2022)
“Behind the CV Interview” with Penn’s MindCore (YouTube) (2021)
Q and A Feature Interview for Neuron (2021)
Administrator

Andrea Subotic
B.S., UC Berkeley
M.A., Cal State University
as5515 [at] columbia.edu
Postdocs

Z. Anissa Jhumka
Ph.D., Aix-Marseille U. France
aj3020 [at] columbia.edu

Andre Toussaint
Junior Fellow, Simons Society of Fellows
PDEP Fellow, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
Ph.D., Temple University
at3658 [at] columbia.edu

Anastasia Zavitsanou
Ph.D., NYU
az2764 [at] columbia.edu
Graduate students

Brittany Bistis
Biological Sciences PhD student
B.A., Yale University
bb2977 [at] columbia.edu

Justin Burdge
Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
jb4582 [at] columbia.edu

Rachel Frazer
Neuro & Behavior PhD student
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.A., Wellesley College
ref2154 [at] columbia.edu

Ryan Schwark
Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Elizabethtown College
rs4192 [at] columbia.edu
Technician

Victoria Saltz
B.A., Williams College
tsaltz83 [at] gmail.com
Undergraduate students

Phalaen Chang

Abednego Delinois

Jonathan Ettricks Jr.

Melody Gomez

Alexis Knight

Alexis Imani Marshall

Wadzanayi Mayiseni

Sarah Sørensen Ogata

Simon Ogundare
Alumni
Postdocs

Heather Rossi
2018 – 2021
Now: Research Associate at UPenn
Graduate students

Leah Elias
NIH NRSA F31 Fellow
2018 – 2022
Now: Postdoc at Johns Hopkins

Melanie Schaffler
NIH NRSA F31 Fellow
2018 – 2022
Now: Teva Pharmaceuticals
Technicians

Jared Boyce
2021 – 2022
Now: MD-PhD student at UWisconsin-Madison

William Foster
2018 – 2021
Now: PhD student at Columbia

Jessica Jones
2018 – 2020
Now: HHMI Gilliam Fellow & PhD student at UW

Isabella Succi
2020 – 2022
Now: PhD student at Columbia
Undergraduates

Justin Arnold
2019 – 2021
Next: MD student at Northwestern U.

Justin Burdge
2018 – 2019
Next: PhD student in the lab

Lucie Pham
2019 – 2021
Next: MD student at Rutgers U.

Samuel Kaufmann
2019 – 2020
Next: Research Assistant at UPenn