OUR TEAM
François St-Pierre, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator & Chief Protein Hacker
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Associate Professor & McNair Scholar
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
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Adjunct Assistant Professor
Rice University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Management Team
Wafa Hassen, Ph.D.
Laboratory Manager
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
Justine Angela Salazar
Research Technician I
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
Research Staff
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Xiaoyu Dong
Senior Research Assistant
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
Mona Thorat, M.S.
Research Assistant II
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
Tanmayee Torne, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
Computational Team
Haixin Liu, Ph.D.
Senior Scientific Programmer
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
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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
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Novel cancer therapeutics and neuro/synbio
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2023 NeuralCODR postdoctoral fellowship
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Michelle Ann Land, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
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Development of fast and photostable genetically encoded voltage indicators for two photon detection of voltage dynamics in vivo
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2023 Welch Conference -Poster Presentation Award
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2023 TPDA for Neuroscience
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2022 U.S. underrepresented minorities travel grant to attend the ASCB 2022
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2022 Trainee Highlight Award for 8th Annual BRAIN Initiative
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2021 TPDA for Neuroscience
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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
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Building smart autonomous microscopes to accelerate biological research and engineering
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NSF I-Corps
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RiceU Innovation Fellowship
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RiceU SSPB Research Award
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SLAS2020 Travel Award
Gregory Martin Foran
Postdoctoral Associate
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
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Molecular Cloning Specialist
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Developing and optimizing high throughput screens for mammalian cells.
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​NSERC Post- Graduate Scholarship winner 2020-2023
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Ontario Graduate scholar 2018-2020.
Alex James McDonald, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
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Development of next generation GEVIs for voltage imaging
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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
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Development of novel genetically encoded voltage indicators with improved response, brightness and photostability
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Moscow State University Scholarship 2013
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E.S. Severin Award 2013
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Moscow Government Scholarship 2015
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Nima Bavili, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Neuroscience
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Maintaining and designing new optical systems for high-throughput screening
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Graduate Students
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Shuyuan Yang
Graduate Student
Rice University Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Development of next generation GEVIs for 2-photon image in vivo
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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
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Development of novel genetically encoded voltage indicators using synthetic biology tools
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Anh Pham
Graduate Student
Rice University Department of Bioengineering
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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
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Optimizing fluorescent voltage indicators for two-photon neural imaging.
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Rotation Students
Tom Thomas Hennigan
Rotation Graduate Student
Baylor College of Medicine Department of Chemical, Physical and Structure Biology
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​Development of red-shifted genetically encoded voltage indicators using synethic biology tools
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Lavanya Karinje
Rotation Graduate Student
Rice university
Systems, Synthetic and Physical Biology program
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​Improving SPOTlight platform
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Undergraduate Students
Nathan Nguyen
Undergraduate Student
Neuroscience at Rice University
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Developing software algorithms for autonomous microscopy
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2023 RUNS (Rice Neuroscience Undergraduate Symposium) Poster Presentation winner
ALUMNI
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Shujuan Lai
Date: 05/2019 - 08/2024
Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Senior Research Assistant
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Chelsey Cooper
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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Laboratory Manager
Seyed "Amir" Safaei, M.S.
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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Master Student
Tensae Assefa
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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant
Beatriz Campillo, M.S.
Date: 05/2022 - 06/2024
Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant II
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Jack Ahrens
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Role in the St-Pierre Lab:
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Kshitij Rai
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Role in the St-Pierre Lab:
Sihui Asuka Guan
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Role in the St-Pierre Lab: Research Assistant
