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Bob Datta

Professor,
Harvard Medical School

B.S. Yale College
M.D., Ph.D. Harvard University

srdatta at hms.harvard.edu
617-432-7890

Strange but true: Bob went to high school with Snoop Dogg.

Tatsuya Tsukahara

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S., University of Tokyo
Ph.D., University of Tokyo

617-432-7971

Strange but true: When Tatsuya was 4 he got lost in Paris, and while in the custody of the police spent the time trying to get them to pronounce his name correctly.

Maya Jay

Graduate Student

B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018

617-432-7971

Strange but true: Maya once bribed her way out of a foreign country, and for $100 she'll tell you which one.

David Brann

Graduate Student

B.A. Columbia University

617-432-7971

Strange but true: Things David has slept through: fire alarms, a Philip Glass concert, his college graduation.

Winthrop Gillis

Graduate Student

B.A. Boston University

617-432-7971

Strange but true: Winthrop lived through most of his childhood without two front teeth.

Caleb Weinreb

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S., Brown University
Ph.D., Harvard University

calebsw at gmail.com
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Caleb went through a six month phase around age 5 where he required a half apple face down on his chest to fall asleep

Rockwell Anyoha

Graduate Student (joint with H. Hoesktra lab)

B.S., Columbia College
B.S., Western Connecticut State College

ranyoha at g.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Rockwell has three independent visual impairments in one eye: because of this he hates red/blue 3d glasses, microscopes and binoculars.

Slater Sharp

Graduate Student

B.S., Cornell College

slatersharp at g.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Slater eats one box of Trader Joe’s Organic Shells and White Cheddar Macaroni & Cheese® every day.

Dilansu Guneykaya

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S. Istanbul University
M.S. Strasbourg University
Ph.D. Charite Medical University

Dilansu_Guneykaya at hms.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Dilansu almost went to the Olympics

Alia Newman-Boulle

Co-op Student

B.S., Northeastern University, Expected 2021

617-432-7971

Strange but true: Alia used to order cheese pizza without the cheese

Emma Robinson

Lab Technician

B.S. Northeastern University, 2021.

emsrobinson101 at gmail.com
617-432-7971

Strange but true: In high school, Emma was a volunteer at an invertebrate zoo as a tarantula handler!

Dana Rubi Levy

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.Sc. Hebrew University
Ph.D. Weizmann Institute

dana_levy at hms.harvard.edu
617-969-1799

Strange but true: Dana's name was changed after her older sister relentlessly insisted she be named after her best friend from kindergarden.

Grigori Guichounts

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.A. Boston University
Ph.D. Harvard University

guitchounts at fas.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Greg once had a brief but illustrious football career as a defensive tackle. Ask him about his pinkie.

Akshay Jaggi

Senior Software/Data Engineer

B.S. Stanford

Akshay_Jaggi at hms.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Until the age of 5, Akshay went by “Milkshake”

Sherry Lin

Senior Computer Scientist

M.S., UC Santa Cruz

sherrylin42 at gmail.com
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Sherry dreams in 4 different languages (English, Japanese, Cantonese, and sometimes German).

Jonah Pearl

Graduate Student

B.S., Yale University

jonahpearl at g.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Jonah has an inverted sternum, and used to try to convince new acquaintances that it had been caused by a cannonball hitting him at point blank when he was very young.

Kara Fulton

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S. University of Michigan
Ph.D. Brown University

Kara_Fulton at hms.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Kara used to think that the world-wide community of Minecraft was actually playing Minesweeper.

Sidharth Annapragada

Co-op Student

B.S., Northeastern University (expected 2024)

annapragada.s at husky.neu.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Sid has cooked every dish from the book series "Redwall," and loves to make unique foods from books.

Mo Osman

Senior Computer Scientist

B.S., Stanford University
M.S., Stanford University

617-432-7971

Strange but true: The superlative that Mo was given by his sophomore year dorm-mates was “Most likely to secretly be God posing as an atheist.”

Lakshanyaa Thamarai Kannan

Co-op Student

B.S., Northeastern University (expected 2023)

l.thamaraikannan22 at gmail.com
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Lakshanyaa never ate a grilled cheese sandwich before the age of 19.

Eli Conlin

Lab Technician

B.A., Wesleyan University

eliconlin at gmail.com
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Eli couldn't talk until the age of 5, so he had to communicate through crude sign language.

Jingwen Araki

Lab Manager

B.S., UCLA
MNSP, Tufts University

jingwen_araki at hms.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Jingwen had five wisdom teeth with the fifth one laying horizontally next to her sinus.

Red Hoffmann

Co-op Student

B.S., Northeastern University (expected 2024)

hoffmann.an at northeastern.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Red can play 10 instruments, including the banjo.

Sofia Makowska

Co-op Student

B.S., Northeastern University (expected 2024)

makowska.s at northeastern.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Sofia has a cup of green tea every day.

Tim Sainburg

Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S., Penn State
Ph.D., UC San Diego

Tim_sainburg at hms.Harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Tim was once kicked by a wild, juvenile mountain gorilla.

Jack Lovell

Computer Data Specialist

B.A., University of Colorado at Boulder

jack_lovell at hms.harvard.edu
617-432-7971

Strange but true: Jack ran one of the largest white water rapids in North America using a sit-on-top-raft that is best suited for flat water — in the middle of December.

Sandeep Robert Datta, MD, Ph.D Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School