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OUR TEAM

François St-Pierre, Ph.D.

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Principal Investigator & Chief Protein Hacker

Associate Professor & McNair Scholar

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Rice University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Management Team

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Wafa Hassen, Ph.D.

Laboratory Manager

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

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Justine Angela Salazar

Research Technician I

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

Research Staff

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Tanmayee Torne, Ph.D.

Research Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

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Gregory Martin Foran,

Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

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Mona Thorat, M.S.

Research Assistant II

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Molecular Cloning Specialist

  • Developing and optimizing high throughput screens for mammalian cells.    

  • ​NSERC Post- Graduate Scholarship winner 2020-2023 

  • Ontario Graduate scholar 2018-2020.

Computational Team

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Anish Zute

Senior Scientific Programmer

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

Postdoctoral Researchers

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Matthew Shorey, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Novel cancer therapeutics and neuro/synbio

  • 2023 NeuralCODR postdoctoral fellowship 

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Michelle Ann Land, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Development of fast and photostable genetically encoded voltage indicators for two photon detection of voltage dynamics in vivo

  • 2023 Welch Conference -Poster Presentation Award

  • 2023 TPDA for Neuroscience 

  • 2022 U.S. underrepresented minorities travel grant to attend the ASCB 2022 

  • 2022 Trainee Highlight Award for 8th Annual BRAIN Initiative

  • 2021 TPDA for Neuroscience 

  • 2020 - 2022 Diversity Supplement apart of NIH U01NS113294: “Designing and deploying an expanded color palette of voltage indicators engineered for multiphoton microscopy”; Postdoctoral Trainee.

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Jihwan "James" Lee, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Building smart autonomous microscopes to accelerate biological research and engineering

  • NSF I-Corps

  • RiceU Innovation Fellowship 

  • RiceU SSPB Research Award

  • SLAS2020 Travel Award 

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Alex James McDonald, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Development of next generation GEVIs for voltage imaging

  •  Optimization of opsins for use in neuronal silencing

        

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Anastasia Mamontova, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Development of novel genetically encoded voltage indicators with improved response, brightness and photostability

  • Moscow State University Scholarship 2013 

  • E.S. Severin Award 2013 

  • Moscow Government Scholarship 2015

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Nima Bavili, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience

  • Maintaining and designing new optical systems for high-throughput screening

Graduate Students

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Shuyuan Yang

Graduate Student

Rice University Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Development of next generation GEVIs for        2-photon image in vivo

  • 2023 Trainee Highlight Award for the 9th Annual BRAIN Initiative Meeting

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Adrian Lankenau

Graduate Student

Rice University Department of Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology

  • Development of novel genetically encoded voltage indicators using synthetic biology tools

 

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Anh Pham

Graduate Student

Rice University Department of Bioengineering

  • Development of enhanced genetically encoded voltage indicators

 

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Emily Anne Llewellyn-Brenner

Graduate Student

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Chemical, Physical and Structure Biology

  • Optimizing fluorescent voltage indicators for two-photon neural imaging.

 

Rotation Students

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Tran, Men Thi Hoang

Rotation Graduate Student

Baylor College of Medicine Department of Chemical, Physical and Structural Biology

  • Development of green dim-to-bright GEVIs

 

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Linxi Xiong

Rotation Graduate Student

Rice University Department of Bioengineering

  • Codon Optimization of GEVIs

 

Undergraduate Students

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Nathan Nguyen

Undergraduate Student

Neuroscience at Rice University

  • Developing software algorithms for autonomous microscopy

  • 2023 RUNS (Rice Neuroscience Undergraduate Symposium) Poster Presentation winner

ALUMNI

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Haixin Liu

Date: 

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Senior Scientific Programmer

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Tom Thomas Hennigan

Date: 7/2024 - 9/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Rotation graduate student

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Shujuan Lai

Date: 05/2019 - 08/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Senior Research Assistant

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Arunima Jaiswal

Date: 08/2023 - 04/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Undergraduate student in Neuroscience at Rice University

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Xiaoyu Lu, Ph.D.

Date: 2017 - 03/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Graduate Student in Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology - Rice University 

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Shaminta Hamidian

Date: 08/2021 - 12/2022

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Technician

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Hala Safi Abdallah

Date: 08/2021 - 09/2022

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Laboratory Technician

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Chelsey Cooper

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Laboratory Manager

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Seyed "Amir" Safaei, M.S.

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Master Student

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Alessandro Groaz

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: 

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Kevin Colbert

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Scientific Programmer

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Yueyang Gou

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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Harvey Yang

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: 

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Tensae Assefa

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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Michael George

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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Johan Widmann

Date: 08/2016 - 03/2017

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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 Lavanya Karinje

Date: 9/2024 - 10/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Rotation graduate student

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Xiaoyu Dong

Date: 10/2021 - 10/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Senior Research Assistant

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Ricardo Ahumada

Date: 06/2024 - 08/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Undergraduate SMART Summer Program student

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Beatriz Campillo, M.S.

Date: 05/2022 - 06/2024

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant II

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Zhuohe Liu, Ph.D

Date: 05/2017 - 07/2023

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Graduate Student in Electrical Engineering - Rice University

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Raegan Banks

Date: 08/2021 - 12/2022

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Laboratory Technician

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Elsayed Zaabout

Date: 01/2021 - 06/2023

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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Jared Reiling

Date: 06/2022 - 08/2022

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: SMART Summer Student

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Moshe Baruch, Ph.D.

Date: 09/2020 - 10/2021

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Postdoctoral Researcher

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Jack Ahrens

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: 

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Gedeon Pil

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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Kshitij Rai

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: 

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Sihui Asuka Guan

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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Peter Suzuki

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Undergraduate Student

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Daniel Zollinger, Ph.D.

Date: 11/2016 - 03/2017

Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Postdoctoral Associate

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Hussam Ibrahim, Ph.D.

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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant

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