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Marlies Oostland
Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Office: PNI A84C

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 Pacuku
B.Sc.
Alumna: Research Specialist
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…
Thomas J. Pisano
Alumnus: M.D./Ph.D. Student until 2019
NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellow

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…

Kelly Seagraves
Ph.D.
Alumna: C.V. Starr Fellow
Kelly Seagraves is now a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the Department of State. Prior to that she was a C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute, where her research focused on better understanding social learning using behavioral and lightsheet microscopy techniques.
Esra Sefik
Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Office: PNI A84F

Esra is a postdoctoral research associate and a C.V. Starr Fellow, who joined the 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 influence of…

Jessica Verpeut
Ph.D.
Alumna: Postdoctoral Research Associate

Jessica is a postdoctoral research associate who joined the lab following her graduate research at Rutgers University. She is interested in understanding how normal maturation of the neocortex requires lobule-specific cerebellar activity. Jessica investigates posterior cerebellum influence on flexible and social behavior using chemogenetic…

Archie "the Dude" Wang
Mascot

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

Betty Wang
Mascot

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

Veronica Wang
Mascot

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.

John R. Wuethrich
A.A.
Alumnus: Research Specialist
John is a research specialist who is training animals on behavioral tasks to support several Wang lab members.