GPN Alumni

Melanie Shackett graduated in 2014. She is currently a Principal Scientist at AbbVie in Cambridge, MA. From 2016-2020, she was a Senior Scientist at Yumanity Therapeutics. Prior to Yumanity, a Research Scientist at Biogen, Research Labs.

Lena Sherbakov graduated in 2014. She is an Assistant Director of MRI Data and Analysis Services at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO.

Marie-Pierre Payen graduated in 2015. Her latest position is as a Program Director at NICHD. Previously, she worked at NIH in NINDS as a Health Specialist. Previously in 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, MD doing neurotrauma research at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine. Upon receiving her PhD, she was employed at Pfizer Inc. for three years as a staff pharmacologist.

Chelsea Trengrove graduated in 2015.  Her latest position is as Business Development & Digital Biomarkers at Empatica. She is also the CEO and cofounder of Neoclease. She also works as a Strategic Advisor at Trengrove Consulting LLC.

Emily Stephen graduated in 2015. After graduation, she worked with Drs. Emery Brown and Patrick Purdon as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of California, San Francisco. She returned to BU as an Assistant Professor of Statistical Neuroscience in January 2021.

Caroline Moore-Kochlacs graduated in 2016. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Emery Brown at MIT. Caroline passed away in 2020. She will be sorely missed by everyone who knew her graceful spirit and brilliance.

Jason Climer graduated in 2016. Soon after he became a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. He is now working as a Research Associate at Northwestern University.

Nicholas James graduated in 2016. After graduation, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Previously in November 2017, he worked as a Data Science Associate at McKesson located in Irving, Texas. He is now working as a Data Scientist at Meta.

Caitlin Monaghan graduated in 2016. She spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at McLean Hospital, Harvard University. She currently works at Fresenius Medical Care North America as a Senior Data Scientist.

Chris Watson graduated in 2016. His most recent position was at Enlitic where he was a Data Analyst.

Grant Fiddyment graduated in 2016. Grant is the Manager of Research at Philadelphia 76ers and he is also an Adjunct Professorial Lecturer at American University. He is an Instructor for Predictive Analytics ITEC 621 and Python Programming ITEC 696.

Maya Woodbury graduated in 2016. She is a Principal Research Scientist I at AbbVie in Cambridge, MA.

Katrina Furth graduated in 2016. She has been an Associate Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute in Shirlington, Virginia since 2018.

Nicholas Robinson graduated in 2016. Nicholas is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College, London.

Spencer Torene graduated in 2017.  He is currently a Manager in the Research and Development department at Thomson Reuters Special Services.

Will Liberti graduated in 2017. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the U.C. Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science. He is now the founder of Stealth Mode in the San Francisco Bay Area. 

Jason Sherfey graduated in 2017. Jason is an Associate Director Director of Bristol Myers Squibb. He is also a Research Assistant Professor (Adjunct) at the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at Boston University.

Mariel Seiglie graduated in 2018. Mariel is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School.

Eli Townsend-Shobin graduated in 2018. He works as a Corporate Strategist at Biogen.

Gabriel Cler graduated in 2018. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, at the Speech & Brain Research Group and Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford. In September 2021, he became an Assistant Professor (tenure-track position) in the Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences at the University of Washington.

Lewis Nathan Perkins graduated in 2018. He is now a Machine Learning Engineer at Apple.

Ellen Witowski graduated in 2019. She is a Scientist I at Biogen.

Catherine Moore graduated in 2019. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the university.

Nathaniel Kinsky graduated in 2019. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Michael Romano graduated in 2019. He is a Resident at the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at  University of California, San Francisco.

John Bladon graduated in 2019. He is an in vivo Scientist in Genetic Medicine at Sanofi.

Sean Tobyne graduated in 2019. He is a Vice President, Data Science and Analytics, at Linus Health.

Kathryn Hixson graduated in 2019. She is a Scientist II, Therapeutic Gene Editing, at Asklepios BioPharmaceutical.

Marek Kowalski graduated in 2019. He is a Resident physician at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.

Iris Trutzer graduated in 2019. She was in the MD/PhD program and studied at the Boston University School of Medicine. She is now a junior assistant resident at the Department of Medicine, John Hopkins Medicine.

Austin Soplata graduated in 2019. Austin has worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. He is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at the EPFL-Blue Brain Project. 

Scott Kuzdeba graduated in 2019. He is a Chief Scientist at BAE Systems in Burlington, MA.

William Mau graduated in 2019. He is now a Principle Data Scientist at Cohere Health. 

Scott Bressler graduated in 2020. He is a Lead Research Scientist at Elemind Technologies, Inc. in Cambridge, MA.

Mary Kate Joyce graduated in 2020. She is now a Postdoctoral Associate in the Neural Systems Laboratory at Boston University.

Sophie Schwartz graduated in 2020. She is a Program Manager of Federal Awards at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and a Research Scientist at Boston University.

Dante Smith graduated in 2020. He is a Data Scientist at Axle Informatics.

Terri Scott graduated in 2020. She is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Edward Chang’s Lab at the University of California, San Francisco.

Adam Vogel graduated in 2020 with a new patent on technology that he developed for use in his thesis. He is now a Vice President in Biotechnology at Wells Fargo.

Ashley Comer graduated in 2020. She is currently working as a Scientist in Neuroimmunology and Neurodegeneration at Sanofi.

Julia Chartov graduated in 2020. She is currently a Data Scientist II at Apriori Bio.

Patricia Shaw graduated in January 2021. She is now a Scientist II at Frequency Therapeutics.

Ying Jiang graduated in January 2021. He is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Cheng Lab.

Louis Vinke graduated in January 2021. He is an Instructor in Investigation, Psychiatry, at Mass General Research Institute.

Samantha Shelton graduated in 2021. She is now working as a senior Scientist in Genomic Editing, Human Molecular, and Cellular Biology at Biogen.

Janis Intoy graduated in 2021. She is now an AI and Data Consultant at Deloitte.

Nathanael Cruzado graduated in 2021. He now works as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Sam Levy graduated in 2021 and is currently working in Lisa Giocomo’s lab at Stanford University in Palo Alto. He is continuing to work on spatial navigation and memory in mice using virtual reality environments and Neuropixels probes.

Hana Yeh graduated in 2021 and is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Perlis Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lisa Kretsge graduated in 2021 and is now a Senior Scientist at PsychoGenics.

Margaret Minnig graduated in 2022. She is in the MD/PhD program and has re-entered medical school at BUMC.

Tom Morin graduated in 2022. He is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MGH/HST Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging.

Madhura Baxi graduated in 2022. She is now a Data Scientist at ImmuneID.

Wei Zhong Goh graduated in 2022. His expertise is in probability and nonparametric statistics. He is now a Machine Learning Scientist at Wayfair.

Kristyn Borrelli graduated in 2022. She is now a Consultant at Acsel Health in New York, NY.

Jenny Klein graduated in 2022. She is now a Postdoctoral Associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Greg Wirak graduated in 2022. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow for Neuroinflammation & Precision Neurology at Sanofi.

Monika Shpokayte graduated in 2022. Her studies have focused on understanding the underlying biological connection between psychiatric and neurodegenerative illnesses. She is now a Manager, Neuroscience, Research and Development, at Cognito Therapeutics, Inc. 

Catherine Mikkelsen graduated in 2022. Her research focused on studying prefrontal-hippocampal interactions in rodents. She is now a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience at Smith College. 

Emily Schlafly graduated in 2023. She is a postdoc working with Professor Mark Kramer at Boston University.

Lucas Carstensen graduated in 2023. He is a Research Scientist at Axoft in Cambridge, MA. 

Allison Tipton graduated in 2023. She is in the MD/PhD program and has re-entered medical school at BUMC.

Kaitlyn Dorst graduated in 2023. She is now a Postdoctoral Scholar for Neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine. 

Luis Ramirez graduated in 2024. He is currently doing his postdoc at UCSD in the Serences Lab, using EEG, fMRI, and computational models of vision to investigate how past visual processing influences future visual perception.

Stamati Liapis graduated in 2024. He is CTO and Co-founder of Enlaye. 

Scott Knudstrup graduated in 2024. He is now a Postdoctoral Researcher at Boston University. 

Kelton Wilmerding graduated in 2024. He is currently engaged in a postdoctoral fellowship at Brandeis University with Dr. Christine Grienberger, using population-level electrophysiology to investigate the dynamics of activity-dependent learning.