People

Current Lab Members.


500x500

Samer Hattar

Principal Investigator

[email protected]


500x500

Diego Fernandez

Postdoctoral Fellow

[email protected]


500x500

Alan Rupp

Graduate Student

[email protected]

Alan is interested in the neural circuits responsible for the pupillary light reflex and is using mouse genetics and viral circuit tracing to investigate them.


500x500

William Keenan

Graduate Student

[email protected]


500x500

Justin Brodie-Kommit

Graduate Student

[email protected]

Justin investigates Retinal Development. He is updating the current model of Retinal Ganglion Cell Genesis by understanding the developmental role of Math5 (Atoh7), previously thought to be the master transcriptional regulator of Retinal Ganglion Cell genesis, to better understand some retinal diseases.

Justin's CV

500x500

Michael Thomsen

Graduate Student

[email protected]


500x500

Kiara Eldred

Graduate Student

[email protected]


500x500

Lorenzo Lazzerini-Ospri

Graduate Student


500x500

James O'Donnell

Graduate Student


500x500

Brooke Szydlowski

Senior Technician

blszyd@gmail(dot)com


Past Members

Ciarra Bell

Melissa Simmonds - Assistant Professor, Oakwood University

Tara LeGates - Postdoc, University of Maryland

Tiffany Schmidt - Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Kylie Chew - Postdoc, Stanford University

Shih-Kuo Chen - Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University

Vanessa Matos-Cruz - Postdoc, Yale University

Catherine Sheely - Field applications scientist, Corning

David McNeill - Business strategy analyst, Open Legal Services

Cara Altimus - Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University

Ali Guler - Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Jennifer Ecker

Tina Matos