people

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

PhD, Cell and Molecular Biology, UPenn
BA, Animal Science, North Carolina A&T State University

C.V.

Aleyna Silcott

Administrative Lab Manager

B.S., Ankara University, Turkey
aab2259 [at] columbia.edu

Sasha Fulton

NIH D-SPAN Fellow
UNCF EE Just Fellow
Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP
Ph.D., Mount Sinai Medicine
B.S., Columbia University
slf2127 [at] columbia.edu

Yuki Haba

Ph.D., Princeton University
B.S., University of Tokyo
yh2778 [at] columbia.edu

Aleksander Kaplan

Ph.D., Hebrew University
B.S., University of Maryland Baltimore Country
ak5200 [at] columbia.edu

Briana Nixon

Ph.D., Cornell University
B.S., Wesleyan University
bn2369 [at] columbia.edu

Andre Toussaint

Simons Junior Fellow
Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP 
Ph.D., Temple University
B.S., Hunter College
at3658 [at] columbia.edu

Anastasia Zavitsanou

Simons Junior Fellow
Ph.D., New York University
B.S., Imperial College London
az2764 [at] columbia.edu

Anna Zhukovskaya

Ph.D., Princeton University
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
az2171 [at] columbia.edu

Brittany Bistis

Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Yale University
bb2977 [at] columbia.edu

William Foster

Neuro & Behavior PhD student
B.S., Haverford College
wf2284 [at] columbia.edu

Rachel Frazer

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

Simon Ogundare

Rotating MD-PhD student
*joint with Christine Denny
B.S., Columbia University
soo2111 [at] columbia.edu

Preston Sheng

Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Emory University
ss6573 [at] columbia.edu

Isabella Succi

Biological Sciences PhD student
*Joint with Itamar Kahn
B.S., St. Joseph’s University
is2687 [at] columbia.edu

Wesley Yu-Young Tsai

Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Johns Hopkins University
yt2882 [at] columbia.edu

Viviana Vinci

Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Northeastern University
vv2373 [at] columbia.edu

Alexis Knight

B.S., Columbia University
aak2220 [at] columbia.edu

Amanda Arnold

ala2214 [at] barnard.edu

Max Comfere

mkc2182 [at] columbia.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

Olaedo Udensi

ocu2101 [at] barnard.edu

Leah Yadessa

lay2110 [at] columbia.edu