Principal Investigator
Stephan Lammel
Associate Professor of Neurobiology & Weill Neurohub Investigator
Department of Neuroscience
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
Postdoctoral Scholars
Neta Gazit
NARSAD Young Investigator
Ph.D. Tel-Aviv University
B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University
B.Sc. Tel-Aviv University
Masaya Harada
Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. University of Geneva
M.D. Kyoto University
M.D. Kyoto University
Petra Mocellin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology (LIN)
M.Sc. University of Bonn
B.Sc. University of Trieste
M.Sc. University of Bonn
B.Sc. University of Trieste
Graduate Students
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
Christopher Lee
Kate Yang
Saanvi Ganesh
Lyna Wais
Theodosya Tawfik
Steven Wang
Alumni
Thomas La
Undergraduate Researcher and Research Assistant 2022-2025
Current Position: Applying for MD/PhD
Anne Lorenz
Research Assistant 2025
Current position: PhD student at UCL
Julia Wu
Undergraduate Researcher 2023-2025
Department Citation 2025
Current position: Technician at Sternson lab UC San Diego
Current position: Technician at Sternson lab UC San Diego
Mila Zou
Undergraduate Researcher 2022-2025
Current position: MS at University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Victoria Li
Undergraduate Researcher 2024-2025
Michael Tanios
Undergraduate Researcher 2024-2025
Gunther Stent Neuroscience Research Scholar
Kurt Fraser
Postdoctoral fellow 2021-2024
Current position: Assistant Professor University of Minnesota
Jonathan ‘Jack’ Read
Undergraduate Researcher and Research Assistant 2021-2024
Current position: MD/PhD applicant
Jeroen PH Verharen
Postdoctoral fellow 2018-2024
Current position: Scientist at iota Biosciences
Amanda Tose
Graduate student 2016-2023
Current position: Scientist at Science
Christine Liu
Graduate student 2015-2022
Current position: Postdoc at UCSF (Sohal lab)
Hongbin Yang
Postdoc 2016-2021
Current position: PI at Zhejiang University
Ignas Cerniauskas
HWNI graduate student 2015-2020, Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds PhD Fellow
Current position: Scientist at Cajal Neuroscience
James Peck
Lab Manager 2015-2021
Current position: Verge Genomics
Daniel Cardozo Pinto
Undergraduate researcher 2015-2018, Amgen Scholar, Honor Thesis, LL Chaikoff Memorial Award
Current position: Neuroscience PhD student at Stanford University
Iskra Pollak Dorocic
Postdoc 2017-2021
Current position: PI at Stockholm University
Sophie Obayashi
Research Assistant 2018-2020
Current position: MCB PhD student at UC Berkeley
Ruoxian (Jenny) Li
Undergraduate Researcher 2022-2024
Anne van den Heuvel
Visiting Student Researcher 2024
Noah Verduyn Lunel
Visiting Student Researcher 2025
Yilin Shi
Undergraduate researcher 2023-2024
Current position: Business Analyst at McKinsey
Youle Fan
Undergraduate Researcher 2024
Jane Lee
Undergraduate Researcher 2022-2023
Eric Hu
Undergraduate Research & Research Assistant 2018-2021, Amgen Scholar, BioE Department Citation Award
Current position: MD/PhD student at NYU
Hasan Ahmad
Undergraduate researcher 2017-2019, Amgen Scholar, Chair's Award in BioE
Current position: Medical school student at UPenn
Jessica Du
Undergraduate researcher 2017-2018, Amgen Scholar, Honor Thesis, MCB Outstanding Scholar Award
Current position: Neuroscience PhD student at UC San Diego
Manze Zhang
Visiting Undergraduate Researcher 2021-2022
Current position: Graduate Student Stanford University
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)
Yichen Zhu
Undergraduate researcher 2018-2021, Forte Memorial Prize, Jeffrey A. Winer Memorial Prize, Honor Thesis
Current position: MD student at Duke University Singapore
Lilly Tang
Research Assistant 2021-2022
Current position: MD student
Natalie Bernstein
Graduate student 2021-2023
Current position: Graduate student UC Berkeley
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
Kaho Adachi
Undergraduate researcher 2019-2020, Honor Thesis, LL Chaikoff Memorial Award
Alice La
Undergraduate researcher 2016
Current position: Pharmacy graduate student at UCSF
Vivian Han
Undergraduate researcher 2016-2018, Regents’ and Chancellor’s Scholar
Kulsum Abdali
Undergraduate researcher 2015-2016
Current position: Masters in Medical Sciences at University of Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Fawwad Khan
Undergraduate researcher 2016-2018
Current position: Medical school student at UT Southwestern