Neurosciences Postdoctoral Scholars, Interdisciplinary Track (Alumni)

Sergey Stavisky is a neuroscientist and neural engineer developing devices to restore movement to people with paralysis. He fell hard for this new nascent field as an undergraduate at Brown University, and after graduating got involved in the BrainGate clinical trial, one of the first testing an intracortical brain-machine interface. Sergey then completed his Ph.D. at Stanford with Professor Krishna Shenoy, where his work focused on improving movement neural prostheses and on understanding how the brain incorporates this new output channel into its motor system.

Boxuan is currently appointed as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Genetics, jointly advised by Prof. Alice Ting and Prof. Liqun Luo. Fulfilling his long-time passion for the study of brain functions, his current research is focused on the development of multiple molecular tools for transcriptome and connectome studies in the neuronal systems.

Dr. Iram studies the aging brain cerebrospinal fluid, and specifically how cerebrospinal fluid transfusions from young mice might reverse aging-related phenotypes in old mice.

Claire McLellan is a physicist fascinated by problems at the interface of physics, materials science, and biology. She received her B.S. in physics from Wake Forest University, where she worked in Prof. Oana Jurchescu’s organic electronics laboratory. From there Claire received her Ph.D. in physics from UCSB studying NV center ensembles in diamond, a quantum sensing platform, under the advisement of Prof. Ania Jayich. Currently, she is a post-doctoral researcher at Stanford University in Prof.

Dr. Seim works at the intersection of computing devices and the body, aiming to define new methods in healthcare and human augmentation.  Her background is in electrical engineering, which enables her to design physical computing devices and hardware.  During her Ph.D.

Mable is studying the mechanisms of myelination as a postdoctoral fellow in laboratory of Dr. Brad Zuchero. She graduated from Amherst College as a Chemistry major and received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At UCSF, Mable worked in the laboratory of Dr. Peter Walter to investigate how cells succumb to apoptosis during protein misfolding stress in the secretory pathway.

Dr. Nowicki studies the deep evolutionary history of vertebrate pair bonding neural mechanisms. She hopes to make a career of building a scientific and public appreciation for the extent to which pro-sociality and underlying mechanisms are shared across vertebrates.