Jay obtained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Thereafter he attended the Madison area technical college to specialize in electron microscopy. He also has a Master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biotechnology. Jay enjoys using microscopy to address biomedical research projects.
Betty obtained her Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison with majors in Genetics and Genomics and Wildlife Ecology. She would like to pursue a career in research related to genetic diseases.
Adam obtained his Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Genetics and Genomics. Thereafter he joined the Neuroscience Training Program and subsequently the Hoon Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Srishti graduated from Presidency University, Kolkata, with a Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences. Then she completed her Master’s in Biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India where she focused on the role of familial mutations on LLPS-mediated oligomerization and aggregation of α-synuclein. She also interned as a Khorana Scholar in the 3rd Messenger …
Yijun completed her masters in Anatomy and Neurobiology at the Boston University. She joined the UW–Madison Neuroscience Training program in 2023.
Agustin obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Biological and Pharmaceutical Chemistry and his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the Institute of Cellular Physiology at the National University of Mexico. His research began with a focus on gene therapy for retinal diseases during his graduate studies and later expanded to include retina regeneration and cell reprogramming during …
Mckenzie is an undergraduate at UW Madison double majoring in neurobiology and psychology.
Whitney earned her B.S. in Biology from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. She obtained her Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied structure-function relationships in the KCNH family of voltage-gated potassium channels. In 2023 she began her postdoc in the Hoon Lab. Whitney is a 2024 Howard Hughes Medical Institute …
Serena earned a B.S in biochemistry and a minor in microbiology from the University of Washington in Seattle. She was a post-baccalaureate at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development before joining the neuroscience training program and the Hoon Lab in 2020.