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…

Mikhail is 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 during brain injury and recovery with innovative optical in vivo imaging methods and developed research instruments for brain studies in…

Esra is a postdoctoral research associate and a C.V. Starr Fellow at Princeton, who joined the Wang lab following her doctoral training in neuroscience and psychiatric genetics at Emory University. She is interested in exploring the cerebellum's role in neural circuits underlying non-motor functions, with a particular focus on the long-distance…

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…

Anurag is an undergraduate student at Princeton, majoring in Neuroscience with a minor in Creative Writing and Gender & Sexuality Studies. He is currently engaged in a study of the cerebellum's role in free exploration in the developing vs mature brain, using automated pose tracking techniques in the Wang Lab. 

Veronica is an undergraduate student at Princeton, majoring in Neuroscience with certificates in Global Health and Health Policy and Engineering Biology. In the Wang lab, she studies how cerebellar perturbation in young mice impacts cognitive development and dendritic spine dynamics.

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…

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…

Marlies is a postdoctoral research associate who joined the lab following postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh (UK) and graduate research at the University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands). She is now combining her expertise of in vivo electrophysiology with the lab's expertise in cognitive function of the cerebellum. She is…

Dafina is a Rutgers University graduate, with a B.A. in genetics. Her exposure to neuroscience began as an undergraduate, where she served as an assistant to a laboratory at the Brain Health Institute in Piscataway. She currently assists researchers in the Wang lab with various tasks, but mainly she accumulates data by carrying out behavioral…

Tom Pisano is an M.D./Ph.D. student and a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellow in the Wang Lab. His research concerns the long distance connectivity of the posterior cerebellum. His research uses a combination of viral tracers, computational neuroanatomy, machine learning and whole brain clearing techniques to look at the topographical…

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.