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Lab Members

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Members of the Jarvis Lab.
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Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Dr. Jarvis has a Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University of New York in Molecular Neurobiology & Animal Behavior.


jarvis (at) neuro.duke.edu    |    Curriculum Vitae

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Tony Zimmermann

Laboratory Manager

B.A., M.B.A.


tonyzimm (at) duke.edu  

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Gustavo Arriaga

Graduate Student

B.S.


arriaga (at) neuro.duke.edu

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Mukta Chakraborty

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D.


chakraborty (at) neuro.duke.edu


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Chun Chun Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D.


cc229 (at) duke.edu


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Ganesh Ganapathy

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D.


gg28 (at) duke.edu


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Erina Hara

Associate in Research

M.S.


hara (at) neuro.duke.edu
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Candace Hitchcock

Research Technician II

M.S.


hitchcock (at) neuro.duke.edu


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Haruhito Horita

Graduate Student

M.S.


horitaharuhito (at) gmail.com
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Jason Howard

Research Specialist

Jason has a B.S. (Cum Laude) from Florida State University and a M.A. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is an American Cancer Society Fisher Fellow.


howard (at) neuro.duke.edu


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Andreas Pfenning

Graduate Student

B.S.


andreas.pfenning (at) duke.edu
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Theresa Renuart

Administrative Assistant


renuartt (at) duke.edu


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Miriam Rivas

Senior Research Associate

Ph.D.


rivas (at) duke.edu
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Ricardo Rossello

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D.


rossello (at) neuro.duke.edu


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Petra Roulhac

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D.


roulhac (at) neuro.duke.edu
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Rui Wang

Graduate Student

B.S.


rw24 (at) duke.edu


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Holly Wantuch

Research Technician II

M.S.


wantuch (at) neuro.duke.edu
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James Ward

Bioinformatics Specialist II


ward (at) neuro.duke.edu


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Osceola Whitney

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D.


whitney (at) neuro.duke.edu
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Gurkan Yardimci

Graduate Student

B.S.


galip.yardimci (at) duke.edu


Current Collaborating Investigators

Kazuhiro Wada, Ph.D. (Division of Integrated Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University in Japan) wada@sci.hokudai.ac.jp
Lubica Niederova-Kubikova, Ph.D. (Faculty of Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics in Slovakia) Lubica.Kubikova@savba.sk
Richard Mooney, Ph.D. (Dept. of Neurobiology, Duke University Medical Center) mooney@neuro.duke.edu
Claudio Mello, Ph.D. (Neurological Sciences Institute, Oregon Health Sciences University) melloc@nims.ohsu.edu
Constance Scharff, Ph.D. (Lab. of Animal Behavior, The Rockefeller University scharfc@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Fernando Nottebohm, Ph.D. (Lab. of Animal Behavior, The Rockefeller University) nottebo@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Alex Hartemink, Ph.D. (Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University) amink@cs.duke.edu
Simon Lim, M.Sc.(Duke Bioinformatics, Duke University Medical Center) lin00025@mc.duke.edu

Former Collaborating Investigators

Yoshihide Hayashizaki, M.D., Ph.D. (Project Director, Genome Exploration Research Group, Yokohama, Japan ) yosihide@gsc.riken.go.jp
Piero Carninci, (Project Leader, Genome Exploration Research Group, Wako, Japan ) carninci@postman.riken.go.jp
Steve Nowicki, Ph.D. (Dept. of Biology, Duke University) snowicki@acpub.duke.edu
Masatoshi Hagiwara, Ph.D. (Dept. of Functional Genomic, Tokyo Dental & Medical School) m.hagiwara.end@mri.tmd.ac.jp
Hironobu Sakaguchi, Ph.D. (Dept. of Physiology & Biological Information, Dokkyo University) sakaguch@dokkyomed.ac.jp
Paul Wang, Ph.D. (Dept. of Electrical Egineering, Duke University) ppw@ee.duke.edu
Patrick Blader, (Centre de Biologie du Developpement, Toulouse, France) blader@cict.fr
Carol Schuurmans, (University of Calgary, Canada ) cschuurm@ucalgary.ca
Dan Brown, ( MIT ) danb@alum.mit.edu

Former Postdoctoral Fellows


Victoria Anne Smith, Ph.D.
(now Assistant Professor type position at U. St Andrews)
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Tom V. Smulders, Ph.D.
(now Assistant Professor at U. Newcastle)

Lubica Niederova-Kubikova, Ph.D.
(now Assistant Professor, Faculty of Institute of Animal Biochemistry and Genetics in Slovakia)
Kazuhiro Wada, Ph.D.
(now Associate Professor, Division of Integrated Life Science, Faculty of Advanced Life Science, Hokkaido University in Japan)

Raphael Pinaud, Ph.D.
(now Assistant Professor at Dept. Brain & Cognitive Sciences in Rochester University)
Liisa Tremere, Ph.D.
(now Research Assistant Professor at Dept. Brain & Cognitive Sciences in Rochester University)
Ioan Opris, Ph.D.
Carl Dowds, Ph.D. (now Cooperate Bioinformatician) dowds@sciosinc.com

Former Graduate Students and Staff

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Lisa Moore, B.A.
(Lab Manager, now Audiologist, Ph.D.)
Yu Jing, B.S.
(Graduate Student, now Corporate Researcher)
Adriana Ragoni Jorge Ferreira,
B.A. (Graduate Student, now Science Administrator in Brazil)
Aya Sasaki
(Graduate Student, now Associate in Research, McGill University, Canada)

Margaret Couvillon
(Graduate Student, now post doc, University of Arizona)
mjcouv@email.arizona.edu
Michael David McElroy, B.A.
(Research Technician, now Research Associate with California Dept. of Public Health)
mmcelroy@ds.ca.gov
Dawn Kernagis
(Associate in Research)
Deepa Sambandan, M.Sc.
(Associate in Research, now Ph.D. student at NC State)
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Maurice Anderson
(Comparative Medicine Specialist II) 		al
Alisa Ray
Research Technician II




Former Undergraduate Students 

Cathy Zhou (Work Study Student)
Nicole Nelson (Work Study Student)
Jennifer Soehngen (Work Study Student)
Suzanne Baumwell, B.A., (Undergraduate Student & Techician, now MD, Resident, Beth Israel Medical Center and Harvard Medical School.) campersport@hotmail.com
Kam Sam Leon (Undergraduate Student, Columbia University, now Graduate Student, University of Washington) kl286@columbia.edu
Kendra Legendre (Undergraduate Student, Stetson University) klegend@stetson.edu
Melva Pinn (Undergraduate Student, now MD, Practicing Physiciant) mep0224@ecu.edu
Connie Siang (Undergraduate Student, now Scientific Recruiting Consultant at Kelly Scientific Resources) connie.siang@gmail.com
Ana Panduro (Undergraduate Student, now Medical Student at the Medical University of SC) panduro@musc.edu

Lab Social Events

A look at what we do when when we socialize, outside of the lab.
Disclaimer: These social events and this part of the web site are not supported by federal or private research funds.

Updated 1/28/2010
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