Our Team
Erich Jarvis
PhD
Head of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language and professor at The Rockefeller University...
Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language New York, NY
Kirubel is a graduate fellow. He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor's of Science and Arts...
Matt Biegler
PhD
Matt is postdoctoral associate in the Jarvis Lab, working toward improving biotechnology applications in birds, both for ...
Matthew Davenport
BS
Matthew is a graduate fellow in the Jarvis and Vaziri laboratories at Rockefeller University primarily interested in the evolutionary...
Victor is a Research Assistant in the Neuroengineering and Behavior group at Jarvis Lab.
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Giulio Formenti
Research Assistant Professor
Giulio is Research Assistant Professor in the Jarvis Laboratory and Bioinformatics Lead in the Vertebrate Genome Laboratory,...
Elena Waidmann
BA
Elena is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Jarvis lab. She received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, during which she...
Chul Lee is a Post-Doctoral Associate in the Jarvis lab at Rockefeller University. He was co-supervised by prof. Heebal Kim and...
PhD
Hector R. Bermudez
Research Assistant
Hector is a Research Assistant for the Jarvis lab working on the Neuroengineering and Behavior team. He is interested ...
Brigid Maloney
BS
Brigid is a graduate fellow in the Jarvis and Magnasco laboratories at the Rockefeller University. Her primary research...
Marwa Mahmoud
PhD
Marwa is the Grant Proposal Writer for the Jarvis Laboratory; she leads grant proposal writing efforts for the lab. Dr. Mahmoud...
Matthew Randesi
BS
Matthew is the Laboratory Manager for the Jarvis lab. He has worked as a Lab Manager in several different positions both.
Sadye Paez
PhD
Sadye is the Program Director and a Senior Research Associate in the Jarvis laboratory. As a biomechanist, physical therapis...
Peter Schade
BS
Peter is a second-year graduate fellow co-advised by Erich Jarvis and Winrich Freiwald. Peter explores how neural circuits...
Lauren Shalmiyev
MPH
Lauren is the Administrative Coordinator for the Jarvis Laboratory. She has experience in the conduct of clinical trials, laboratory...
Simona is a postdoctoral fellow at the Jarvis lab. Her experience spans from fieldwork to wet lab to bioinformatics. During her...
Constantina Theofanopoulou
PhD
Constantina is a Post Doctoral Associate at Rockefeller University. She received her PhD in the Neurobiology of Language...
César Vargas
BA
César is a fifth-year graduate fellow. His primary research interest is how animals control their actions and movements, particularly ...
Rockefeller University Field Research Center
Millbrook, NY
Jean-Nicolas Audet
PhD
Jean-Nicolas is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller Field Research Center in Millbrook. In his early career, Nik worked...
Mélanie Couture
BS
Mélanie Is a research assistant at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. Prior to joining the Jarvis lab...
Matthew Maresca
BA
Matthew is a Husbandry Attendant for the Jarvis Lab at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. He grew up...
Gillian Permuy Durham
BA
Gillian is the Head of Animal Husbandry for the Jarvis Lab at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook...
Lotem Tchernichovski
BFA
Lotem is a Husbandry Attendant for the Jarvis Lab at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, NY. She received...
Grace Smith-Vidaurre
PhD
Grace is an NSF postdoc fellow working on how the early social environment changes gene regulatory markers and...
Vertebrate Genome Lab
New York, NY
Conor Whelan
Research Scientist
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Jennifer Balacco
Research scientist
Jen is a molecular biologist and expert in isolating ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA and in many long read technologies...
Kathleen Horan
Administrative coordinator
Kathleen is our administrative coordinator. She facilitates samples exchange between institutions and coordinates...
Nivesh Jain
Research scientist
Nivesh is a molecular biologist training in ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
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Linelle (left) is a bioinformatician specializing in genome assembly & evaluation.
Patrick is molecular biologist training in Ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
Tatiana Tilley
Research Assistant
Tatiana is a molecular biologist training in Ultra-High Molecular Weight DNA isolation, Bionano, and PacBio.
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Nadolina Brajuka
Computational biologist
Nadolina completed a Masters of Bioinformatics in 2021 and is now a Computational Biologist...