Sam Wang is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University. An alumnus of the California Institute of Technology, where he received a B.S. with honor in physics, he went on to earn a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1993. He conducted postdoctoral research at Duke…

Henk-Jan Boele, MD PhD, is a visiting researcher at PNI and an assistant professor at Erasmus University Medical Center. During his postdoctoral fellowship in the Wang Lab (2018-2021) he studied the effects of early-life cerebellar damage on autism developmental trajectories, using multi-photon imaging of dendritic spines in the neocortex. In…

Joey is a postdoctoral research associate who joined the lab following his graduate research at University of California, Davis. His research is focused on uncovering the principles of information encoding in the parallel fiber to Purkinje cell pathway of the cerebellum. He develops and utilizes novel genetically encoded tools and optical…

Esra Sefik is a postdoctoral research associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. She joined the Wang Lab after completing her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at Emory University, where she studied neurodevelopmental risk for schizophrenia and autism, using neuroimaging in humans and mice, psychiatric…

Frederick's research focuses on better understanding how the connections between the cerebellum and the neocortex in the brain change as people grow older. Through his research at Harvard Medical School, where he explored neuroimaging indicators of age-related changes, he has garnered recognition from platforms such as CNN, the L.A. Times, and…

Callan is a graduate student in Molecular Biology under the Rutgers-Princeton M.D./Ph.D. program. Before coming to Princeton, Callan's research involved work in psychiatric epigenomics at Mount Sinai and Yale with a focus on cell type-specific chromatin remodeling in schizophrenia. They are broadly interested in investigating cerebellar…

Yusup was a software engineer at Princeton who primarily worked on the brainsharer collaboration with UCSD to make tools for analyzing and collaborating on volumetric data. He also worked full time on the developer tooling team at Latitude AI, a subsidiary of Ford working on creating self-driving vehicles. Before that he worked on the…

Yuhang Chen is a graduate student in the Quantitative and Computational Biology program. His interests lie in the interface of neuroscience and biophysics. He is currently studying the cerebellar contributions to spontaneous behaviors by modeling the motions of freely moving mice using technologies in computer vision and machine learning.…

John graduated with a B.S. from the University of Miami where he majored in Economics and concentrated on topics in Econometrics and Game Theory. He later withdrew from his career as an Equities Trader on Wall Street to pursue his interests in Data Science and Bioinformatics. John will be applying his passion for quantitative analysis by…

Ben studied cerebellar roles in decision-making and working memory using an evidence accumulation paradigm. His work includes two-photon calcium imaging, optogenetic manipulations, and behavior modeling.

Zahra is a Research Specialist working in the Wang lab as part of BRAIN COGS at Princeton University. She joined the lab after completing her B.Sc. at Simmons College and senior thesis work at Harvard Medical School. She is interested in using viral tracing, microscopy, and computational…

Sara is an Autism Research Manager who joined the lab after completing her doctoral studies in developmental neurotoxicology at CUNY and her work as an Associate Research Scientist at Columbia University.  In the Wang Lab, she is using her background in imaging and behavior to study the role of the cerebellum on neocortical…

Sanjeev is now a Neuroscience PhD Student at University of Colorado Anschutz. He was a Neuroscience Data Analyst serving the BRAIN CoGS collaboration. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Washington in Applied Math. As an undergraduate his research focused on finding biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease using machine…

Mikhail is now a Research Assistant Professor in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was a postdoctoral research associate in the Wang Lab. He obtained his doctorate in Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of Helsinki, where he studied fine morphological alterations of neurons…

Junuk is now working at the Van Andel Institute in West Lansing, Michigan. He was previously a postdoctoral research associate in the lab, following earlier postdoctoral research at Princeton University and Stanford University, as well as graduate research at Seoul National University in South Korea. His research focused on the role of…

Archie "the Dude" recently joined the lab. His first project is a comprehensive gustatory study of natural and man-made environments.

Betty is an expert in human subjects research, with a focus on olfactory interviewing techniques. In her spare time she enjoys pandiculating.

Veronica is a data scientist specializing in the spatiotemporal analysis of kibble, with a focus on unseen leftovers. In her spare time she likes to shed.