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Previous Team Members

Zoe Gardner

Research Assistant (2022-2024)
Zoe is now enrolled in medical school as an MD PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, where she plans to pursue her goal of becoming a physician scientist. Her research interest is primarily in the developmental origins of pediatric disorders. She is unsure of her future medical speciality but knows it will be something in the realm of pediatrics, influenced by her time in the Poduri Lab.

Ibrahim Ndiaye

Research Assistant (2022-2024)
Ibrahim is now enrolled in EMT course, where he plans to pursue his goal of becoming a medical professional.

Emerson De Fazio

Summer Research Fellow (2022, 2023)
Emerson is an Armenise-Harvard Fellow from Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele who has been with our lab for two summers. We are thrilled that he will return to our lab as a post-doctoral fellow after he graduates from medical school in 2024. 

Barbara Robens, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Staff Scientist (2018-2022)
Barbara is now a Scientist at Blueprint Medicines. 

Hyunyong (Howard) Koh, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2019-2023)
Howard is now in the Pediatric Neurology Residency program at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. 

Nicholas Sookhoo

Lab Research Assistant (2022-2023)
Nick is now enrolled in medical school at SUNY Downstate, where he plans to pursue his goal of becoming a surgeon. 

Cristina Baker

Lab Research Assistant (2021-2023)
Cristina is now completing a M.Sc. in Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. 

Jane Lee

Lab Research Assistant (2021-2023)
Jane is now completing a Master’s degree in Psychology at Boston University.

Christopher Yuskaitis, MD, PhD

Affiliated Researcher (2013-2023)
Chris is now Associate Medical Director at Takeda. 

Brandon Oby

Clinical Research Assistant (2021-2023)
Brandon is now attending the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and he plans to further explore his interests in ophthalmology and neuroscience.

Julia Koh

Clinical Research Assistant (2021-2023)
Julia is now attending the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and she hopes to pursue a specialty in women’s services, particularly in maternal-fetal medicine.

Katie Kralik

Genetic Counseling Assistant (2022-2023)
Katie plans to go to graduate school to attain her Master’s degree in genetic counseling.

Rebecca Pinsky, MSN, RN, CPNP

Research Program Manager (2019-2023)
Becka originally joined the program as a Clinical RA in 2013 and later returned as the Research Program Manager.

Barbara Robens, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Staff Scientist (2018-2022)
Barbara is now a Scientist at Blueprint Medicines. 

Frederick Burki

Program Coordinator (2021-2022)
Fred is now the program coordinator for the Rosamund Stone Zander Translational Neuroscience Program at BCH.

Rebecca Reef

Genetic counseling assistant (2019-2022)
Becca is now completing a Master’s degree in Genetic Counseling at Penn. 

Xinzhu (Tina) Yang

Lab Research Assistant (2020-2022)
Tina is now attending medical school at Columbia University. 

Eliza Rezaeimanesh

Clinical Research Assistant (2021-2022)
Eliza joined the Epilepsy Genetics Program as a Clinical Research Assistant in September of 2021. 

Ikhianosen Ukhuedoba

Lab Research Assistant (2019-2021)
Ikhianosen is now a medical student at Quinnipiac University’s Frank H. Netter M.D. School of Medicine. 

Devon Knight

Clinical Research Assistant (2019-2021)
Devon is now enrolled in the Physician Associate Program at Yale University. 

Emma Sexton

Clinical Research Assistant (2019-2021)
Emma is now a graduate student at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 

Lisanna Paulino

Program Coordinator (2017-2021)
Lisanna now works at the Boston Children’s Hospital Trust, where she is a Patient Liason Service Officer. 

Catherine Shain, MPH

Research Program Manager (2009-2019)
Catherine joined the Epilepsy Division in 2009 and the Epilepsy Genetics Program in 2011 at its inception.

Meredith Park

Clinical Research Assistant (2017-2019)
Meredith is currently enrolled in medical school at UNC Chapel Hill. 

Grant Bullis

Clinical Research Assistant (2018-2019)
Grant is now a research associate at Charles River Laboratories.

Lindsey Adams

Co-Op Student Intern (2018-2019)
Lindsey was a co-op student intern from Wentworth Institute of Technology. She now works in the biomedical test engineering field.

Melanie Barbini

Co-Op Student Intern (2018)
Melanie was a co-op student intern from Northeastern University. She is now an MD/PhD candidate at UMass Medical School. 

Anne Rochtus, MD, PhD

Research Fellow and Visiting Fulbright Scholar (2017-2018)
Anne was a Research Fellow and Visiting Fulbright Scholar from KU Leuven in Belgium. Anne is now a pediatric endocrinologist and neurologist at University Hospitals Leuven. 

Brandon Jones 

Lab Research Assistant (2016-2018)
Brandon is currently a PhD student in Neuroscience at University of California, San Diego.  

Alan Taylor, MS, CGC

Licensed Genetic Counselor (2016-2018)
Alan is now a genetic counselor at Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital in Dubai.  

Tsega Mekonnen Meshesha

Program Coordinator (2015-2017)
Tsega completed a Master’s degree in Health Services and Systems Research at Boston University School of Public Health in 2018. She is now the program manager for the Financing and Reimbursement of Cures in the US (FoCUS) project at MIT. 

McKenna Kelly

Clinical Research Assistant (2015-2017)
McKenna graduated from medical school at The Geisel School of Medicine at Darthmouth College in 2021, and she is now an Ob/gyn resident at the University of Colorado. 

Gessica Truglio, PhD

Research Fellow (2014-2016)
Gessica is now a quality assurance specialist and consultant for Strand Associates in Belgium.  

Alexander Jaksic

Research Assistant (2015-2016)
Alex graduated from Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine at Hofstra University in 2020, and he is currently a resident in the Combined Pediatrics-Anesthesiology Residency Track at Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. 

Gabriel Dabscheck, MBBS (Hons), MClinEpi, FRACP

Clinical Research Fellow (2015-2016)
Gabriel is now a pediatric neurologist and epileptologist at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.  

Dimira Tambunen

Research Assistant (2013-2015)
Dimira graduated from medical school at Boston University in 2019, and she is now a child neurology resident at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.

Madelen Diaz

Summer Student Intern (2012-2013)
Madelen Diaz received her PhD in neuroscience in the Rosbash Lab at Brandeis University in 2018 and is now a post-doctoral associate at University of Miami. 

Emilie Martin

Student Intern (2013)
Emilie Martin is a former student intern and trainee from France. Emilie is currently a PhD student at Centre International de Recherche en Infectiologie at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Lyon, France.

Sriram Ramgopal, MD

Research Assistant (2012-2014)
Sriram subsequently completed a residency in pediatrics and fellowship in pediatric emergency medicine at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He is now an attending physician in pediatric emergency medicine and an assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

In Memoriam: Jeremy F. P. Ullmann, PhD

Dr. Jeremy Ullmann joined the Poduri Lab and Epilepsy Genetics Program as a Research Fellow in January of 2016. He was a neuroscientist with extensive experience in imaging and zebrafish models of neurodegenerative disease. Jeremy received his BSc in Biology from Brandeis University in 2003 and a PhD in neuroscience and bio-imaging at The University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia in 2010. He completed his first post-doc at the Centre for Advanced Imaging (The University of Queensland) under Prof. David Reutens where he developed the world’s highest high-resolution models of pre-clinical animal models and examined the correlation of febrile seizures and temporal lobe epilepsy later in life. As part of the Epilepsy Genetics Program he performed high-throughput genetic screens to validate candidate epilepsy genes. Jeremy tragically passed away on February 10, 2019 at the age of 37 in a hiking accident at Mt. Washington. In addition to the Poduri Lab and Epilepsy Genetics Program, Jeremy was a beloved member of the Kirby Neurobiology community, the zebrafish community, and the Post-Doctoral Association at Boston Children’s Hospital. Jeremy was known by his co-workers as not only an exceptionally smart and creative researcher, but also a genuinely thoughtful and caring colleague and friend. Jeremy was passionate about his work in the lab and deeply devoted to his dear family, including his wife, Kylie, and son, Oscar.

Jeremy’s full obituary is available at: https://www.demunn.com/obituary/jeremy-p-ullmann