Principal Investigator

• Wei Wei

Lab Personnel

• Chen Zhang – Lab Manager
• Swen Oosterboer – Committee on Neurobiology Graduate Student (B.S., M.S., University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• Zixuan (Sharon) Deng –  Committee on Neurobiology Graduate Student, Pritzker Fellowship Awardee (B.S. Princeton University; M.S. Harvard University)
• Jenna Tijerina – Committee on Neurobiology Graduate Student, NSF GRFP Fellow (B.S. UCLA)
• Tori Edington – Biophysical Sciences (BPHYS) Graduate Student (B.S. Princeton University)
• Matthew Ahmon – UChicago Undergrad, recipient of the 2024-25 Training Program in Computational Neuroscience (TPCN)

Alumni

• Lianxing “Colin” Tan –  Undergrad student, 2024 Summer research fellowship, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Sara Vargas – Undergrad student, UChicago
• Zachary Zemmel – Undergrad Student, 2023 Metcalf Fellowship
• Xiaolin (Lindsay) Huang – Committee on Neurobiology Graduate student. Recipient of BSD International Student Fellowship, Best Dissertation Award on Neurobiology; B.S. Life Sciences, Peking Univ. – Now postdoc at UC Berkeley
• Jennifer Ding- Committee on Neurobiology Graduate student, NSF GRFP Fellow; B.S. Columbia University – Now postdoc at Harvard Medical School
• Hector Acaron Ledesma  –  Biophysics Program Graduate Student ; NSF GRFP Fellow; NRSA Fellow. (B.S. BioEng Cornell)
  (PSD advisor: Bozhi Tian, Dpt. of Chem, UChicago) – Now Postdoc at Harvard Medical School
• Qiang (Chris) Chen  – Computational Neuroscience Graduate Student  (2014-2018); Recipient of BSD International Student Fellowship, Best Dissertation Award on Computational Neuroscience; B.S. University of Science and Technology of China – Now postdoc at Univ. of Washington
• Alan Kim – Undergrad student, U. Chicago – Now in the NIH PostBac IRTA program
• Mofei Wu – Lab technician (B.S. U. Chicago)
• Janet Chung – UChicago undergrad and lab technician (Now grad student at UChicago)
• Benno Giammarinaro – UChicago Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant 2014-2018 (now graduate student at UC Berkeley)
• David Koren – MD/Ph.D student (Sep 2013 – July 2017), NRSA Fellow, Roche/ACRS Scholar
• Jiawei Wang – Undergraduate from Tsinghua University, Beijing (2015 Summer Research Program, now grad student at Yale)
• Jiamin Lv – Visiting Undergraduate Student   2013 Summer, from Fudan University,Shanghai, now grad student at NYU)
• James Grove – UChicago Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant  (2014- 2015) – Now neuroscience grad student at UCSF)
• Dr. Zhe Pei  – Postdoctral fellow Nov 2012- Mar 2015