Gage Lab 2022 Salk Institute

Principal Investigator

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Rusty Gage

Professor

Fred H. Gage is the Principal Investigator of the Gage Lab.

Scientists

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Ravi  Agarwal

Research Assistant I

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Shan Bamarni

Lab Technician I

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Simone Benassi

Research Assistant III

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Samantha Chin

Lab Technician I

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Beth Coyne

Lab Administrative Manager

Beth Coyne graduated from Bryant University. She is the Laboratory Administrative Manager for the Laboratory of Genetics and Dr. Gage. 

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Mike Cuoco

Graduate Student

Joelle Faybisheno

Joelle Faybisheno

Lab Technician I

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Sarah Fernandes

Graduate Student

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Iryna Gallina

Research Assistant III

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Ryan Goodman

Intern

Elisa Gorostieta

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Joseph Herdy

Graduate Student

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Jeffrey Jones

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Austin Kang

Research Assistant II

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Ananth Karanam

Lab Technician I

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Lukas Karbacher

Research Assistant II

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Ruth Keithley

Research Assistant IV

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Melissa Kelley

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Shong Lau

Postdoctoral Fellow

I received my PhD degree from CUHK, Hong Kong. My major interest of research is molecular machinery in Parkinson’s disease with cell reprogramming techniques such as iPSC and direct reprogramming from fibroblast to functional neuron (iN). With this technology I would like to identify the relationship of aging and Parkinsonism and why dopaminergic neurons are particularly vulnerable in Parkinson patients.
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Christina Lim

Graduate Student

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Serena Low

Lab Technician I

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Raffaella Lucciola

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Carol Marchetto

Asst. Adjunct Professor

Carol is currently studying the behavior of different subtypes of human neurons in the neuropsychiatric diseases such as Autism spectrum disorders, Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder. Elucidation of basic mechanisms that are involved in neuronal deficits on brain disease may help developing strategies for drug screen platforms and potential therapy candidates for neurologic diseases. Carol obtained her degree in Biology and her PhD degree in Genetics at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), Brazil. When she is not working in the lab, Carol is involved in outreach science programs and Women in Science discussions. Carol’s passions are practicing yoga and teaching yoga for kids.
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Aidan McDonald

Research Assistant I

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Jerome Mertens

ASST. ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

I’m interested in studying the biology of human aging and age-related neurodegenerative disorders using neural cell reprogramming technologies and integrative analysis approaches.
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Lisa Mitchell

Research Assistant I

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Dina Mousavi

Research Assistant I

Maria Mozo

Lab Technician I

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Traci Newmeyer

Research Assistant III

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Ioana Nitulescu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joseph Park

Lab Technician I

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Sarah Parylak

Staff Scientist

I studied Biology as an undergraduate at Duke before pursuing my PhD in the Neurosciences Graduate Program at UCSD, working in the lab of Dr. Eric Zorrilla.   I joined the Gage lab in 2012 as a staff researcher specializing in behavioral neuroscience.  I’m interested in the connection between outward behavior and its underlying neural circuits, with a particular focus on hippocampus-dependent memory.
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Jasmin Revanna

Graduate Student

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Thais Sarraf Sabedot

Bioinformatics Analyst II

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Monisha Saxena

Lab Technician I

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Amandeep Sharma

Research Assistant II

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Sheila Steiner

Graduate Student

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James Tucker

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Leslie Wallace

Research Assistant II

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Meiyan Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Meiyan received her PhD from the University of California San Diego. In her graduate work, she studied DNA damage in the genomes of neural progenitor cells and its link with neuropsychiatric disorders. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Gage lab and works on understanding neuroinflammatory processes using brain organoid models.

Qiuwen Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lynne Xu

Lynne Xu

Lab Technician I

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Xavier Zhou

Lab Technician I

Gage lab alumni

2020

Yongsung Kim

Sara Linker

Abed AlFattah Mansour

Patrick Reed

Dylan Reid

Hideya Sakaguchi

Shani Stern

Krishna Vadodaria

2019

David Adamowicz

Research Collaborator

Tomohisa Toda

2017

Jinju Han Ph.D.

KAIST – Republic of Korea
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Jennifer Erwin

Research Collaborator

Ahmet Denli

Research Collaborator

2016

Krishnan Padmanabhan Ph.D.

Baptiste Jaeger

Research Collaborator

Pai-Kai Huang

Research Collaborator

2015

Bilal Kerman Ph.D.

Benjamin Lacar Ph.D

Rebecca Wright Ph.D.

2014

Leah Boyer Ph.D.

Wei Deng Ph.D

2013

Dane Clemenson Ph.D.

Jasodhara Ray Ph.D.

Beate Winner Ph.D.

Jun Yao Ph.D.

2012

Kristen Brennand Ph.D.

Mount Sinai School of Medicine
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Mohamedi Kagalwala Ph.D.

Neurogeneration
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Star Lee Ph.D.

Boston University
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Yan Li Ph.D.

Stanford University
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Michael McConnell Ph.D.

University of Virginia School of Medicine
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Yangling Mu Ph.D.

Shenzen Institute of Advanced Technology
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Chunmei Zhao Ph.D.

Halozyme Therapeutics
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2011

Brad Aimone Ph.D.

Sandia National Laboratories
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2010

Stefan Aigner Ph.D.

Hoffmann-La Roche – Switzerland
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2008

Sebastian Jessberger Ph.D.

ETH Zurich – Institute of Cell Biology
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Alysson Muotri Ph.D.

University of California at San Diego
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Michael Saxe Ph.D.

BrainCells Inc.

Koji Shimozaki Ph.D.

University of Nagasaki – Japan

Xiangdong Xu Ph.D.

University of California at San Diego Medical School
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Gene Yeo Ph.D.

University of California at San Diego
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2006

Toru Sawai Ph.D.

Eisai Co. – Japan
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2005

Dieter Chichung Lie Ph.D.

European Science Foundation
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Sophia Colamarino Ph.D.

Cure Autism Now/Autism Speaks
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Antonella Consiglio Ph.D.

Centre de Medicina Regenerativa – Barcelona
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Jenny Hsieh Ph.D.

University of Texas Southwestern – Dallas
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Brian Kaspar Ph.D.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital – Columbus, OH
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Tomoko Kuwabara Ph.D.

AIST – Japan
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Ayumu Tashiro Ph.D.

Norwegian Institute for Science and Technology
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Sandrine Thuret Ph.D.

Kings College London
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Andrew Wurmser Ph.D.

University of California at Berkeley
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2004

Kinichi Nakashima Ph.D.

Kumamoto University – Japan
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Phillippe Taupin Ph.D.

National Neuroscience Institute – Singapore
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Andrew Willhoite Ph.D.

University of Canberra – Australia
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Xinyu Zhao Ph.D.

University of New Mexico – Albuquerque
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2003

Vi Chu Ph.D.

Chemicon International
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Leigh Leasure Ph.D.

University of Texas – Houston
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Ed Lein Ph.D.

Allen Institute for Brain Science
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Guoli Ming Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University
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Hong Jun Song Ph.D.

Johns Hopkins University
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Michaela Thallmair Ph.D.

University of Zurich Brain Research Institute
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2002

Eugene Brandon Ph.D.

Ceregene Corporation

Theo Palmer Ph.D.

Stanford University
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2001

Phil Horner Ph.D.

University of Washington at Seattle
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2000

Kohji Nishida Ph.D.

Osaka University Medical School

David Schaffer Ph.D.

University of California at Berkeley
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Lamya Shihabuddin Ph.D.

Genzyme Corporation
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1999

Eleni Markakis Ph.D.

Yale University
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1998

Isabelle Aubert Ph.D.

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center – Toronto
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Gerd Kempermann Ph.D.

Center for Regenerative Therapies – Dresden
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1997

Georg Kuhn Ph.D.

University of Gothenburg – Germany
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Jun Takahashi Ph.D.

University of Kyoto – Japan
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Masayo Takahashi Ph.D.

University of Kyoto – Japan
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1996

Un Jung Kang Ph.D.

University of Chicago
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Shun Shimohama Ph.D.

University of Kyoto – Japan
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Silke Thode Ph.D.

Iconix Biosciences

1995

Daniel A. Peterson

Rosalind Franklin University
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1993

Ann Fagan Ph.D.

Washington University at St. Louis
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Michael Kawaja Ph.D.

Queen’s University – Canada
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