Alumni Profile Overcoming obstacles: PhD alum Tara Tracy seeks new approaches to treat Alzheimer’s disease Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Tara Tracy, assistant professor at the Buck Institute.Rachel HendersonJanuary 18, 2023
Alumni Profile UC Berkeley alum Greg Dunn celebrates the brain through art Read our Q&A with alum Greg Dunn, a renowned artist with a PhD in Neuroscience.KailyssOctober 31, 2022
Alumni Profile Mapping and mentoring: PhD alum Adeen Flinker uses rare data to study speech and language Read our Q&A with alum Adeen Flinker, assistant professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine.KailyssJuly 27, 2022
Alumni Profile From Kansas to Mission Bay: An interview with Professional in Residence Timothy Day Read a Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Timothy Day, co-founder and CSO of DNALite Therapeutics.KailyssApril 7, 2022
Alumni Profile Visualizing a new path: PhD alum John Long creates tech that helps firefighters see through smoke and darkness Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum John Long, co-founder and CTO of Qwake Technologies.KailyssJanuary 25, 2022
Alumni Profile Being flexible: PhD alum Michele Insanally studies plasticity and learning in the auditory system Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Michele Insanally, an assistant professor at the University…Cari IrwinApril 30, 2021
Alumni Profile Beyond the lab: PhD alum Antonio Lara builds wearable devices to gain insight into the human brain Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Antonio Lara, director of neuroscience at Kernel.barbaraDecember 16, 2020
Alumni Profile Home over hospital: PhD alum Elena Allen develops products to manage heart failure at home Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Elena Allen, chief scientist at Rodin Scientific.barbaraNovember 17, 2020
Alumni Profile From brains to self-driving cars: PhD alum Helene Moorman’s path from academia to industry Read our Q&A with Neuroscience PhD alum Helene Moorman to learn how she went from…barbaraJuly 13, 2020
Alumni Profile Disorder in a dish: PhD alum Sundari Chetty uses human cells to study autism and schizophrenia UPDATE DECEMBER 2022: Chetty has moved from Stanford and is now an assistant professor of…barbaraApril 15, 2020
Alumni Profile From bench to bedside: PhD alum Oscar Vazquez works to make new treatments a reality “I've always wanted to work to shorten the gap between discovery and actual use in…barbaraFebruary 3, 2020
Alumni Profile Increasing complexity: PhD alum Gautam Agarwal challenges the brain to understand how it works in the real world In this Q&A, Gautam Agarwal, now a research scientist in the Sommer lab, discusses how…barbaraDecember 3, 2019
Alumni Profile Teaching science and the science of teaching: PhD Program alum Robin Ball Robin Ball, who was in the first class of PhD Program students, is a lecturer…Cari IrwinJune 25, 2019
Alumni Profile PhD program alum Liberty Hamilton eavesdrops on how the human brain processes natural sounds “Something we can really add to the field is being able to understand at a…Cari IrwinMarch 6, 2019
Alumni Profile Letting the data speak for itself: PhD alum Alex Huth models language representation in the brain As an Assistant Professor at UT Austin, PhD alum Alex Huth uses large sets of…Cari IrwinMarch 6, 2019
Alumni Profile Making tech more user-friendly: PhD alum Chung-Hay Luk researches how people interact with technology At HWNI, Chung-Hay Luk studied decision-making and created dresses with interactive electronics for fun. Now…Cari IrwinJanuary 29, 2019
Alumni Profile PhD program alum Emily Cooper returns to Berkeley as faculty, studying vision in the real world and applying it to virtual worlds “In order to understand any perceptual system, such as the human visual system, you also…barbaraNovember 28, 2018
Alumni Profile Revealing your brain: PhD program alum Erica Warp develops brain wearables using her background as a neuroscientist, artist, and entrepreneur “I think throwing fireballs with your mind in a game is cool, but taking care…barbaraSeptember 7, 2018
Alumni Profile Signs of resilience: PhD Program alum Beth Mormino images aging brains to identify predictors of Alzheimer’s Disease "Everyone’s brain has its own individual differences, like a fingerprint." Beth Mormino, PhD Program alum…georgeannMay 29, 2018
Alumni Profile Working side by side: PhD Program alum Ariel Rokem is a data scientist for academia “Once we figure out how to collaborate, there are a lot of things we can…georgeannMay 8, 2018
Alumni Profile To die will be an awfully big adventure: PhD Program alum Peter Pan studies neuron aging Pan as a PhD student in the Garriga lab. Chun-Liang (Peter) Pan wants to understand…barbaraApril 13, 2018
Alumni Profile The stuff of friendship: PhD Program alum Annaliese Beery studies the neuroendocrinology of peer affiliation Annaliese Beery (entering class of 2003) UPDATE JULY 2021: This profile was written in 2018…georgeannFebruary 15, 2018
Alumni Profile PhD Program alum Allyson Mackey studies how the brain changes during development and learning Allyson Mackey (right) working in her lab at UPenn. Allyson Mackey wants to understand…georgeannDecember 5, 2017
Alumni Profile Recent PhD graduate Brian Isett studies how tactile textures and shapes are represented in the brain Brian Isett The building blocks of experience Brian Isett has long been interested in…georgeannJune 17, 2017
Alumni Profile Good vibes: PhD Program alum Bradley Voytek talks neural oscillations and his path from PhD to Professor Bradley Voytek (entering class of 2004) Bradley Voytek and PhD advisor Bob Knight. Bradley Voytek…georgeannFebruary 23, 2017
Alumni Profile Alumni Profile: Hania Köver Köver in her current job as head of the Graduate School Office at the Institute…georgeannJune 1, 2016
Alumni Profile Berkeley Neuroscience PhD Program alums Emily Jacobs and Michael Goard start their own labs at UC Santa Barbara Michael Goard and Emily Jacobs Emily Goard Jacobs and Michael Jacobs Goard are alumni from…georgeannFebruary 15, 2016