People 

Michael Yartsev, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology and Engineering
Principal Investigator

Department of Bioengineering

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
UC Berkeley

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More about Michael

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Lab Manager

Yuka Minton

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Postdoctoral scholars

Wujie Zhang, Ph.D

Website

Angelo Forli, Ph.D

EMBO Fellow

HFSP Fellow

Will Liberti, Ph.D

Boaz Styr, Ph.D

HFSP Fellow

Julie Elie, Ph.D

Website

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Graduate students

Maimon Rose

Helen Wills Neuroscience Graduate Program

Entering class of 2015 

NSF honorable mention

Madeleine Snyder

Bioengineering Graduate Program

Entering class of 2019

NSF Fellow

Kevin Qi 

Biophysics Graduate Program

Entering class of 2020

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Undergraduate students

Barbara Shvareva

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Leo Huang​

Rae Fariolen

Beiqi Wang

Maggie McDonough

Christopher Lung

Nicole Wang

Sun-Wee Yun

Alumni

Ofer Tchernichovski

On Sabbatical from Hunter College: 2019

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Tobias Schmid

Graduate student: 2016-2021

Currently: The Column group (Science driven venture capital)

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Nicholas Dotson

Post-Doc: 2017-2020

Currently: Project Scientist at Salk Institute

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Daria Genzel

Visiting Scholar/Research Specialist: 2015-2020

Currently: Product Designer at SpikeGadget

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Lindsey Loomis

Staff Research Associate: 2018-2020

Currently: Associate Supervisor at OLAC

Charlotte Diges

Lab Manager: 2016-2017

In Vivo Quality Lead at The Jackson LaboratoryLab Manager