Our Team
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...
Matt Biegler
PhD
Matt is postdoctoral associate in the Jarvis Lab, working toward improving biotechnology applications in birds, both for ...
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,...
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
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...
Brigid Maloney
BS
Brigid is a graduate fellow in the Jarvis and Magnasco laboratories at the Rockefeller University. Her primary research...
Marwa Mahmoud
PhD
Marwa is the Grant Proposal Writer for the Jarvis Laboratory; she leads grant proposal writing efforts for the lab. Dr. Mahmoud...
Matthew Randesi
BS
Matthew is the Laboratory Manager for the Jarvis lab. He has worked as a Lab Manager in several different positions both.
Sadye Páez María
PhD
Sadye is the Program Director and a Senior Research Associate in the Jarvis laboratory. As a biomechanist, physical therapis...
Peter Schade
BS
Peter is a second-year graduate fellow co-advised by Erich Jarvis and Winrich Freiwald. Peter explores how neural circuits...
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...
Constantina Theofanopoulou
PhD
Constantina Theofanopoulou is the Herbert and Neil Singer Research Assistant Professor at Rockefeller University...
NJ de Silva
Research Specialist
NJ is a Research Specialist in the Jarvis Lab. He graduated from Columbia University with degrees in Biomedical Engineering...
Suziane Barcellos
PhD
Suziane is a postdoctoral associate in the Jarvis Lab, working on a bird conservation and de-extinction project.
In 2022...
Cassidy Jonhson
Graduate Student
Cassidy is a PhD student in the Jarvis lab. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Molecular & ...
Chern-Sing Goh
Computational Biologist
Chern-Sing is a computational biologist in the Jarvis laboratory at Rockefeller University ...
Erica Luo
Research Assistant
Erica is a research assistant in the Jarvis Lab. She graduated from Tufts University in 2024 ...
Siddhartha Sharma
Graduate Student
I am a graduate student in the Jarvis Lab. I completed my Bachelors in Biotechnology ...
Rockefeller University Field Research Center
Millbrook, NY
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...
Mélanie Couture
BS
Mélanie Is a research assistant at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. Prior to joining the Jarvis lab...
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...
Jordan Kohomban
Husbandry Attendant
Jordan is a Husbandry Attendant for the Jarvis Lab at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. ...
Vertebrate Genome Lab
New York, NY
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...
Kirsty McCaffrey
Bioinformatics Assistant
Kirsty is a Bioinformatics Assistant II in the Vertebrate Genome Lab, working on the curation of high-quality reference genomes.
Nivesh Jain
Research scientist
Nivesh is a molecular biologist training in ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
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I graduated as a biologist from Saratov State University in Russia and completed my master's degree in...
Patrick is molecular biologist training in Ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
Jack A. Medico
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Jack is a graduate fellow at the Vertebrate Genome Lab, at Rockefeller University. He got his B.Sc....
Frankie Ackerman
Research Scientist
Frankie is a molecular biologist specializing in techniques such as RNA isolation
Bonhwang Koo
Data Support Assistant
Bonhwang is a data support assistant at the VGL, supporting the lab in wrangling genomic data and metadata.
Sabrina Burmeister
Visiting professor
Sabrina is a visiting professor from UNC Chapel Hill.
Mac Gooder
Visiting Student
Mac is interested in genome assembly and bioinformatics.
Clara Tucker
Project Coordinator
Clara is a Project Manager and Sample Wrangler at the VGL, where she manages sample...