Lab Team

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Principal Investigator
Thomas Hnasko

Thomas Hnasko, PhD
Tom Hnasko received his PhD in Neurobiology & Behavior from the University of Washington in 2006 for his work in the laboratory of Richard Palmiter. He continued his studies as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF in the lab of Robert Edwards, joining the Neurosciences faculty at UCSD in 2012.

Lab Manager

Elizabeth Souter, B.S.
Neuroscience
Colgate College

Postdoctoral Fellows 

Vivien Zell thomas steinkellner
Lauren Faget 
PhD Neuroscience
University of Strasbourg
BRF Young Investigator
Vivien Zell
PhD Neuroscience
Univ of Strasbourg
NIDA-INSERM Fellow
 Thomas Steinkellner
PhD Pharmacology
University of Vienna
Schrödinger Fellow


Jon Heston
PhD Neuroscience
UCLA
Bumpus Fellow
Shelley Warlow
PhD Biopsychology
University of Michigan

 Graduate Students
Jinyi Duan
Cody Sargent
Physiology & 
Neuroscience
UCSD		   Xinyi 'Katherine' Shen
Biology Masters Program

Undergraduate Students

     
Mustafa Baqai
Physiology &
Neuroscience
UCSD		 Nicholas Bavafa
Bioinformatics
UCSD		 Surya Swaroop
Biochem & Cell Bio
UCSD
 
      



 

Rotation Students

Bankole Aladesuyi
Norah Koblesky
Eric Wang
BMS
Gokhan Senturk
Biology
Shannan McClain
MSTP
Norah Koblesky 
Neurosciences
Bankole Aladesuyi Michael Melissa Galinato Claire Geddes
Bankole Aladesuyi
Neurosciences		 Michael Baughn
BMS		 Melissa Galitano
Neurosciences		 Claire Geddes 
Neurosciences

Conall Sauvey
Sarah Ur
Alex Jones
BMS		 Conall Sauvey
BMS		 Sarah Ur
BMS

Alumni

Nicholas Mauricio
 Alex Johnson Jonathan Wu Julie Bailly
Nicholas Mauricio
 Alex Johnson
 Ji Hoon Yoo  Johnathan Wu
 Julie Bailly
Jinyi Duan
 Jinyi Duan Reed Ressler
Michelle Tran 
 Jinyi (Jane) Duan 
 Reed Ressler

 Cindy Punta

 Nivedita Ramajayam
Maya Ellisman
 Laura Alarcon
Maya Ellisman
 Laura Alarcon
 Tauni Kovacich
 M. Ali Shenasa 

  Adam McPherson
Navarre Gutierrez-Reed
Katie Fife



Navarre
Gutierrez-Reed
Katie Fife