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Dominika J. Burek, PhD, studied neuroinflammation during her BA in cellular neuroscience at Colgate University and the molecular biology of addiction and depression as a research assistant in Dr. Eric Nestler’s laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. As a graduate student in Dr...

Ivan J. Santiago, PhD, is Puerto Rican and was raised in the Mott Haven neighborhood of the South Bronx. He attended the City College of New York, where he obtained both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biology. Next, he attended Harvard University, where he earned a PhD in neurobiology. During...

Caroline B. Palavicino-Maggio, PhD, is a basic neuroscientist who studies the fundamental neurological basis of social behavior using the fruit fly model system’s genetic approaches. In 2016, she joined the laboratory of Dr. Ed Kravitz in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Her...

Dr. Cole Korponay’s research program in human neuroimaging and behavior emerges from a fusion of diverse training backgrounds. As a post-doctoral research fellow, via a F32-funded neuroanatomy-neuroimaging collaboration with Dr. Suzanne Haber and NIDA, he is leveraging “ground-truth” anatomy data to...

Lucas Trambaiolli, MSc, PhD, has a background in biomedical engineering and neuroscience. His doctoral work combined multimodal neuroimaging, real-time signal processing, and machine learning to identify functional connectivity patterns associated with emotion regulation. He targeted these patterns...

Claudio Toro-Serey, PhD, earned his doctorate at Boston University in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition program. His doctoral work focused on sources of individual variability involved in value-based decision making, which he examined at the level of behavior and functional network organization...

Emily L. Newman, PhD, is a research fellow with Dr. Kerry Ressler in the Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory. Her work focuses on the neurocircuitry and molecular mechanisms that underlie stress and fear-related disorders. She uses highly translational models of social stress combined with genetic and...

Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, is chief scientific officer and James and Patricia Poitras Chair in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. He is also a professor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and past-president of the Society for Biological Psychiatry. Dr. Ressler was previously an investigator of the...

Jakob Hartmann, PhD, is director of the Neurobehavioral Stress Resilience Laboratory at McLean and is an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Hartmann is the recipient of several honors and fellowships, including a research scholarship from the German Research Foundation...

Oluwarotimi Folorunso, PhD, is a post-doctoral research fellow in the Division of Basic Neuroscience Research. His research focuses on investigating the cellular and molecular mechanism that underlie cognitive deficits in psychiatric and neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s...

Jing Liu, PhD, received his PhD degree in medicinal chemistry from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences in China. He has accumulated over 12 years of research experience in medicinal chemistry, especially in drug research and development. Dr. Liu has been a post-doctoral fellow at McLean...