Principal Investigator
Stephan Lammel
Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Weill Neurohub Investigator
Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
UC Berkeley
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
UC Berkeley
- 2004 Board License in Pharmacy
- 2004 Diploma in Neuroscience, Martin-Luther University
Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) - 2008 Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Philipps-University Marburg (Germany)
with Dr. Jochen Roeper - 2009 Leopoldina Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University
with Dr. Rob Malenka - 2015 Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
- 2021 Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
Staff Members

Elaine Tan
Lab Operations Manager
Ph.D. UC San Diego
B.A. UC Berkeley
B.A. UC Berkeley

Jonathan ‘Jack’ Read
Research Assistant
B.A. UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Scholars
Johannes ‘Han’ de Jong
NARSAD Young Investigator
Ph.D. Utrecht University
M.Sc. Utrecht University
B.Sc. Utrecht University
M.Sc. Utrecht University
B.Sc. Utrecht University

Neta Gazit
NARSAD Young Investigator
Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University
B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University
B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University
Jeroen PH Verharen
Rubicon Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D. Utrecht University
M.Sc. VU University
B.Sc. VU University
M.Sc. VU University
B.Sc. VU University

Kurt Fraser
BRAIN Initiative Fellow
Ph.D. John Hopkins University
B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.S. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Masaya Harada
Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. University of Geneva
M.D. Kyoto University
M.D. Kyoto University
Graduate Students

Amanda Tose
NSF Fellow
B.S. University of Washington

Yilan Liang
B.S. Zhejiang University, China

Johanna Mankel
Visiting Researcher
MD/PhD student Roeper Lab (Goethe University)
MD/PhD student Roeper Lab (Goethe University)
Undergraduate Students

Thomas La

Jane Lee

Peridot Park

Ruoxian (Jenny) Li

Mila Zou

Hank Wang

Yilin Shi

Andy Bi

Julia Wu
Alumni
Hongbin Yang
Postdoc 2016-2021
Current position: PI at Zhejiang University
Christine Liu
Graduate student 2015-2022
Current position: Postdoc at UCSF (Sohal lab)
Iskra Pollak Dorocic
Postdoc 2017-2021
Current position: PI at Stockholm University
Ignas Cerniauskas
HWNI graduate student 2015-2020, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellow
Current position: Scientist at Cajal Neuroscience
Daniel Cardozo Pinto
Undergraduate researcher 2015-2018, Amgen Scholar, Honor Thesis, LL Chaikoff Memorial Award
Current position: Neuroscience PhD student at Stanford University
James Peck
Lab Manager 2015-2021
Current position: Verge Genomics
Sophie Obayashi
Research Assistant 2018-2020
Current position: MCB PhD student at UC Berkeley
Eric Hu
Undergraduate Research & Research Assistant 2018-2021, Amgen Scholar, BioE Department Citation Award
Current position: MD/PhD student at NYU
Jessica Du
Undergraduate researcher 2017-2018, Amgen Scholar, Honor Thesis, MCB Outstanding Scholar Award
Current position: Neuroscience PhD student at UC San Diego
Yichen Zhu
Undergraduate researcher 2018-2021, Forte Memorial Prize, Jeffrey A. Winer Memorial Prize, Honor Thesis
Current position: MD student at Duke University Singapore
Hannah Tak
Undergraduate researcher 2016-2019, SURF Fellow, Honor Thesis, LL Chaikoff Memorial Award
Current position: Medical school student at UC Davis
Aleysha Chen
Undergraduate researcher 2019
Seyedeh Atiyeh Afjei
Research assistant 2015-2018
Current position: Research Associate II, Sri International, Menlo Park
Naveena Sunkara
Undergraduate researcher 2015-2016, Honor thesis
Current position: Medical school student at NY Medical College
Hasan Ahmad
Undergraduate researcher 2017-2019, Amgen Scholar, Chair's Award in BioE
Current position: Medical school student at UPenn
Kaho Adachi
Undergraduate researcher 2019-2020, Honor Thesis, LL Chaikoff Memorial Award
Siyi Gu
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher 2022
Current position: Undergraduate at The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Strahinja Stojanovic
Visiting Researcher 2019
Current position: MD/PhD student Goethe University (Roeper lab)
Alice La
Undergraduate researcher 2016
Current position: Pharmacy graduate student at UCSF
Fawwad Khan
Undergraduate researcher 2016-2018
Current position: Medical school student at UT Southwestern
Michael Bryant
Undergraduate researcher 2016-2017
Kulsum Abdali
Undergraduate researcher 2015-2016
Current position: Masters in Medical Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Vivian Han
Undergraduate researcher 2016-2018, Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar
Lilly Tang
Research Assistant 2021-2022
Current position: MD student
Manze Zhang
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher 2021-2022
Current position: Graduate Student Stanford University
Natalie Bernstein
Graduate student 2021-2023
Current position: Graduate student UC Berkeley