Our Team
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Erich Jarvis
PhD
Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language and professor at The Rockefeller University...
Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language New York, NY
Kirubel is a graduate fellow. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's of Science and Arts...
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Matt Biegler
PhD
Matt is postdoctoral associate in the Jarvis Lab, working toward improving biotechnology applications in birds, both for ...
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Matthew Davenport
BS
Matthew is a graduate fellow in the Jarvis and Vaziri laboratories at Rockefeller University primarily interested in the evolutionary...
Victor is a Research Assistant in the Neuroengineering and Behavior group at Jarvis Lab.
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Giulio Formenti
Research Assistant Professor
Giulio is Research Assistant Professor in the Jarvis Laboratory and Bioinformatics Lead in the Vertebrate Genome Laboratory,...
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Elena Waidmann
BA
Elena is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Jarvis lab. She received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, during which she...
Chul Lee is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Jarvis lab at Rockefeller University. He was co-supervised by prof. Heebal Kim and...
PhD
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Hector R. Bermudez
Research Assistant
Hector is a Research Assistant for the Jarvis lab working on the Neuroengineering and Behavior team. He is interested ...
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Brigid Maloney
BS
Brigid is a graduate fellow in the Jarvis and Magnasco laboratories at the Rockefeller University. Her primary research...
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Marwa Mahmoud
PhD
Marwa is the Grant Proposal Writer for the Jarvis Laboratory; she leads grant proposal writing efforts for the lab. Dr. Mahmoud...
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Matthew Randesi
BS
Matthew is the Laboratory Manager for the Jarvis lab. He has worked as a Lab Manager in several different positions both.
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Sadye Paez
PhD
Sadye is the Program Director and a Senior Research Associate in the Jarvis laboratory. As a biomechanist, physical therapis...
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Peter Schade
BS
Peter is a second-year graduate fellow co-advised by Erich Jarvis and Winrich Freiwald. Peter explores how neural circuits...
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Lauren Shalmiyev
MPH
Lauren is the Administrative Coordinator for the Jarvis Laboratory. She has experience in the conduct of clinical trials, laboratory...
Simona is a postdoctoral fellow at the Jarvis lab. Her experience spans from fieldwork to wet lab to bioinformatics. During her...
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Constantina Theofanopoulou
PhD
Constantina Theofanopoulou is the Herbert and Neil Singer Research Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University...
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César Vargas
Research Specialist
NJ is a Research Specialist in the Jarvis Lab. He graduated from Columbia University with degrees in Biomedical Engineering...
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Suziane Barcellos
PhD
Suziane is a postdoctoral associate in the Jarvis Lab, working on a bird conservation and de-extinction project.
In 2022...
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Camil Piperni
SSRP Student
Camil is an undergraduate student at Smith College in their second year of the Rock EDU summer science research program...
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Julian Hernandez
Research Assistant
Julian is a Research Assistant in the Jarvis lab and applies single-cell techniques across different teams. They graduated from Smith College...
Rockefeller University Field Research Center
Millbrook, NY
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Jean-Nicolas Audet
PhD
Jean-Nicolas is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller Field Research Center in Millbrook. In his early career, Nik worked...
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Mélanie Couture
BS
Mélanie Is a research assistant at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. Prior to joining the Jarvis lab...
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Fredrick Goulette
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Gillian Permuy Durham
BA
Gillian is the Head of Animal Husbandry for the Jarvis Lab at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook...
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Lotem Tchernichovski
BFA
Lotem is a Husbandry Attendant for the Jarvis Lab at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. She received...
Vertebrate Genome Lab
New York, NY
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Conor Whelan
Research Scientist
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Jennifer Balacco
Research scientist
Jen is a molecular biologist and expert in isolating ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA and in many long read technologies...
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Kirsty McCaffrey
Bioinformatics Assistant
Kirsty is a Bioinformatics Assistant II in the Vertebrate Genome Lab, working on the curation of high-quality reference genomes.
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Nivesh Jain
Research scientist
Nivesh is a molecular biologist training in ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
Linelle (left) is a bioinformatician specializing in genome assembly & evaluation.
Patrick is molecular biologist training in Ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
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Jack A. Medico
B A
Jack is a graduate fellow at the Vertebrate Genome Lab, at Rockefeller University. He got his B.Sc....
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Frankie Ackerman
Research Scientist
Frankie is a molecular biologist specializing in techniques such as RNA isolation
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Bonhwang Koo
Data Support Assistant
Bonhwang is a data support assistant at the VGL, supporting the lab in wrangling genomic data and metadata.
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Sabrina Burmeister
Visiting professor
Sabrina is a visiting professor from UNC Chapel Hill.
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Mac Gooder
Visiting Student
Mac is interested in genome assembly and bioinformatics.
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Cassidy Jonhson
Graduate Student
Cassidy is a PhD student in the Jarvis lab. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Molecular & ...
Emily is an administrative assistant at VGL, bringing a wealth of experience from her background in ...