Nick Manfred

Nick received his A.B. with departmental honors in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, where he conducted research on valence encoding in mouse models of anxiety disorders. Before joining the Neurosciences PhD program at Stanford, he was a connectome annotator for a collaboration between the Zuckerman Institute and the FlyEM Project of Janelia-HHMI, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence. Currently he is interested in identifying therapeutic targets to treat aging and neurodegeneration by researching lysosomal function and neuroinflammatory pathways in the Abu-Remaileh lab.