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People List - Alumni

John D'Uva
B.Sc.
Alumnus: Research Specialist
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 Deverett
Alumnus; M.D./Ph.D. Student until 2019

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 M. Dhanerawala
B.Sc.
Alumna: Research Specialist
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…
Sara Guariglia
Ph.D
Alumna; Autism Research Manager

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…

Ugne Klibaite
Ph.D.
Alumna: Postdoc 2018-2019, together with Josh Shaevitz
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.
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…

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.