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 People 

Michael Yartsev, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor of Neurobiology and Engineering
Principal Investigator

Director, Center for the Neuroscience of Natural Behaviors

Director, Center of Neural Engineering and Prostheses

 

Department of Bioengineering

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
UC Berkeley

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More about Michael

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College of Engineering News Piece (2021)

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Bakar Fellows Profile (2021)

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Institute for Neuroscience News Piece (2015)

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Yuka Minton

Lab manager

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Boaz Styr, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

HFSP Fellow

 

 

 

Julie Elie, Ph.D

Staff researcher

Website

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Krishna Kasuba, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

 

 

 

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Angelo Forli, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

EMBO Fellow

HFSP Fellow

 

 

Madeleine Snyder

Bioengineering Graduate Program

Entering class of 2019

NSF Fellow

 

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Kevin Qi 

Biophysics Graduate Program

Entering class of 2020

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Tatsumi Yoshida 
Biophysics Graduate Program
Entering class of 2023

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Yuheng Feng 
Bioengineering Graduate Program
Entering class of 2021

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Hesper Chen
Biophysics Graduate Program

Entering class of 2022

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Wudi Fan 
Bioengineering Graduate Program
Entering class of 2024

Alumni

Will Liberti
Post-Doc: 2020-2022
Currently: CEO, Morphosis

Wujie Zhang
Post-Doc: 2016-2022
Currently: Software engineer/Applied Machine Learning at Eikon Therapeutics 

Maimon Rose
Graduate Student: 2015-2021
Currently: Data Scientist at Alto Neuroscience

Tobias Schmid
Graduate Student: 2016-2021
Currently: Senior Associate at Mubadala Capital (VC biotech)

Nicholas Dotson
Post-Doc: 2017-2020
Currently: Scientist at Salk Institute 

Maria Ji
Undergraduate: 2016-2019
Currently: Medical Student and Surgical coordinator (Harrison)

Ashley Rakuljic
Undergraduate: 2018-2020
Currently: Medical student (Doctor of osteopathy) Pennsylvania

Varvara Shvareva 

Undergraduate: 2018-2021
Currently: Graduate student in neuroscience at UCSF

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