Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars, Interdisciplinary Track

Chloe Bair-Marshall is a neuroscientist interested in how neuromodulator systems in the brain influence animal behavior. As a postdoctoral fellow in Liqun Luo’s lab at Stanford, she is investigating how recently discovered serotonin neuron subtypes flexibly control behavioral choices under competing motivational and homeostatic drives. Chloe received a BS from McMaster University, Canada before obtaining her PhD in Neuroscience and Physiology from New York University where she was advised by Robert Froemke.

Eric Zhao is a chemist and neuroengineer interested in developing novel tools and materials that seamlessly interface with the nervous system. As a postdoctoral fellow in the labs of Professor Zhenan Bao in Chemical Engineering and Professor Julia Kaltschmidt in the Department of Neurosurgery, he is designing stretchable and adhesive electrode arrays to study neural dynamics in the gastrointestinal tract. 

Shwetha Srinivasan is a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Merritt Maduke’s lab in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. Her long-term goal is to elucidate molecular mechanisms in the brain by integrating high-resolution visualization with functional studies. Her current research focuses on ion channels in neurons and glia, revealing how their structures shape function and are modulated by partner proteins, nucleotide cofactors, and membrane lipids. In collaboration with Prof.

Shailja is an engineer and computational scientist interested in the modeling of the human brain to study neurological diseases and guide neurosurgeries. As a Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute’s postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Jennifer A. McNab and Prof. Josef Parvizi, she investigates tractography-based neurosurgical targeting. She is interested in mapping the whole brain structural connectivity network from diffusion MRI to functional connectivity in the human brain.

David Au is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurobiology, where he works with Dr. Stephen Baccus. His research uses machine learning to study the mammalian visual system, focusing on how sleep and learning modulate the neural codes of the visual cortex. David earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from the University of California, Irvine, where he investigated how circadian photoreceptors in flies and mosquitoes drive complex behaviors such as sleep–wake regulation and phototaxis.

Hongfei Ji is a Postdoctoral Scholar in Professor Miriam Goodman's laboratory in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology. His research focuses on understanding how neural circuits detect external cues, generate behavior, and adapt to different environments, using the microscopic roundworm C. elegans as a model organism. Additionally, he develops innovative optical and computational techniques for imaging and analyzing C. elegans and other systems. Hongfei received a Ph.D.

Aditi Jha is a computational neuroscientist interested in developing statistical approaches to analyze neural and behavioral data. As a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford, she is developing reinforcement learning-based models to study natural behavior, and to investigate the associated neural correlates. Aditi received a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. She then obtained her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Princeton, where she was advised by Jonathan Pillow and supported by a Google PhD fellowship.

Kelly Yoo is a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, working jointly in the laboratories of Professor Michael Lim (Department of Neurosurgery) and Professor Michael Lin (Departments of Neurobiology and Bioengineering). Kelly earned her M.D. and Ph.D. from Heidelberg University School of Medicine, where she focused on CAR T cell immunotherapy.

Sangsin (Sin) Lee is a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Alice Ting's lab at the Department of Genetics, Stanford Medicine. Previously, his doctoral study at Rice University under Professor Jerzy Szablowski focused on engineering synthetic markers for non-invasive measurement of gene expression and neuronal activities in the brain using blood tests. Now at Stanford, Sin aims to continue developing innovative tools that can help better understand the mechanisms underlying brain functions.

Jeremy Axelrod is a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Steven Chu’s lab, where he is developing new high-resolution optical microscopy techniques to determine the biophysical mechanisms driving axonal transport and how these mechanisms are linked to neurodegenerative diseases.