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 People 

Michael Yartsev, Ph.D.

 

Associate 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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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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Madeleine Snyder

Bioengineering Graduate Program

Entering class of 2019

NSF Fellow

 

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Angelo Forli, Ph.D

Postdoctoral fellow

EMBO Fellow

HFSP Fellow

 

 

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Kevin Qi 

Biophysics Graduate Program

Entering class of 2020

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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

Tatsumi Yoshida 
Biophysics Graduate Program
Entering class of 2023

Alumni

 

Ofer Tchernichovski

On Sabbatical from Hunter College: 2019

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Will Liberti

Post-Doc: 2020-2022

Currently: CEO, Morphosis

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Wujie Zhang

Post-Doc: 2016-2022

Currently: Software engineer/Applied Machine Learning at Eikon Therapeutics

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Maimon Rose

Graduate student: 2015-2021

Currently: Data Scientist at Alto Neuroscience

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Tobias Schmid

Graduate student: 2016-2021

Currently: Swanson Fellow at 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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