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

curriculum vitae

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