Tod Thiele

I received my undergraduate degree from Hamilton College where I worked with Herm Lehman & Robert Barlow (SUNY Upstate Medical Center) on diurnal structural changes in the lateral eye of horseshoe crabs. Following graduation, I moved to San Francisco and worked as a technician in Steve McIntire’s lab at UCSF where I helped identify mutations in C. elegans that alter behavioural responses to ethanol. For my PhD research, I investigated the neural circuitry underlying C. elegans chemotaxis behaviour in Shawn Lockery’s lab at the University of Oregon. I was surrounded by zebrafish labs in Oregon (the birthplace of zebrafish research) and became excited about joining the growing number of labs that use this animal to study brain circuits. I next joined Herwig Baier’s group at UCSF for postdoctoral research looking into motor control circuits in zebrafish and later moved with the lab to the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Munich.

Rida Ansari

Rida is an editor at The Lancet.

Michael Martin

Michael is an imaging specialist with Nikon

Nicholas Guilbeault

Nick is a Research Software Engineer at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.

Venkatesh Krishna S.

Venkatesh works in biotech.

Vernie Aguda

Vernie is a genetic counselor.

Isabelle Tate

Isabelle is a Hospital administrator.

Ennie Olajide

Ennie is a medical student at the University of Toronto

Sinan Shariff

Sinan is a PhD student at McGill

Helen Chasiotis

Helen is a research specialist at the University of Toronto.

Laura Koek

Laura is a postdoc at the Salk Institute.

Indira Riadi

Indira is a Healthy Aging Specialist.

Nisma Khan

Nisma is a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

Sara Faour

Sara is a Clinical Research Project Coordinator.

Christopher Mark

Christopher is in graduate school to become a Physician's Assistant

Malak Abuzgaya

Malak is in graduate school.

We have had 40+ undergraduates work or volunteer in the lab over the years.