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Jacob Simon

Jacob is a postdoctoral scholar in the Clandinin lab working to understand the molecular functions of sleep, and why sleep is so important for brain health. He is using genetic and neuroimaging methods to explore how neurons regulate energy usage during sleep using fruit flies as a model system. Jacob studied Physics and Molecular and Cell Biology at UC Berkeley before completing his graduate work in Biological Engineering at MIT with Alan Jasanoff where he engineered molecular sensors for functional MRI.

Jintao Sheng

Jintao Sheng is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Psychology working with Drs. Anthony Wagner and Elizabeth Mormino on the Stanford Aging and Memory Study (SAMS). She completed her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Beijing Normal University, under the supervision of Dr. Gui Xue. During her PhD, Jintao used cutting-edge methods in neuroimaging and focused on the neural mechanisms of human episodic memory encoding from the perspective of neural representations across materials, individuals, and functional networks in healthy young adults.

Sonia Nan Kim

Sonia Nan Kim is a neuroscientist working to develop new RNA tools and therapeutics for neurodegenerative disease. Sonia Nan received her B.S. in molecular biology, and M.S. in biology from the University of California - San Diego with Dr. Lawrence S.B. Goldstein. She received her Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard University. In her doctoral research with Dr. Christopher A.

Hannah Ennerfelt

Hannah Ennerfelt aims to understand how the immune system contributes to neurodegeneration. As a postdoctoral fellow advised by Dr. Katrin Andreasson, she researches the mechanisms by which immune cells drive Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive aging. Hannah received her bachelor’s degrees in biology and psychology from Salisbury University. She began her studies in neuroimmunology as a Fulbright fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden. Hannah then obtained her Ph.D. in neuroscience in the lab of Dr.

Eloise Berson

Eloise is a jointly appointed postdoctoral fellow, advised by Dr. Montine and Dr. Nima Aghaeepour. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Graphics from the University of Paris-Saclay, with her doctoral research focusing on developing AI algorithms to enhance 3D facial animation editing. Currently, Eloise is working on developing new AI methods to analyze and interpret high-dimensional spatial omic data, aiming to identify molecular, morphological, and imaging Alzheimer’s disease resilience signatures.

Juliet K Knowles

Juliet Knowles is Assistant Professor in Neurology at Stanford. Dr. Knowles is a physician-scientist who provides clinical care for children with epilepsy and leads a lab team conducting basic, translational and clinical research on pediatric epilepsy. She completed her M.D. and Ph.D. in Neurosciences at Stanford University, followed by residency training in Pediatrics and Child Neurology at Stanford, where she also served as Chief Resident. Following clinical fellowship training in Pediatric Epilepsy, Dr.

Marius Wernig

Dr. Wernig is a Professor in the Departments of Pathology and Chemical and Systems Biology and Co-Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University. He graduated with an M.D. Ph.D. from the Technical University of Munich where he trained in developmental genetics in the lab of Rudi Balling. After completing his residency in Neuropathology and General Pathology at the University of Bonn, he then became a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Rudolf Jaenisch at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research/ MIT in Cambridge, MA.

Ivan Soltesz

Ivan Soltesz received his doctorate in Budapest and conducted postdoctoral research at universities at Oxford, London, Stanford and Dallas. He established his laboratory at the University of California, Irvine, in 1995. He became full Professor in 2003, and served as department Chair from 2006 to July 2015. He returned to Stanford in 2015 as the James R. Doty Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences at Stanford University School of Medicine.
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