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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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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 Rotation 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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