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MARIA ANTONIETTA TOSCHES

Principal Investigator

Dr. Maria Antonietta Tosches studied developmental biology and neuroscience at the Scuola Normale Superiore and at the University of Pisa in Italy. She earned her PhD at EMBL in Germany, working on the annelid nervous system with Detlev Arendt. In 2014, she joined the group of Gilles Laurent at the MPI for Brain Research as a postdoc. Since 2019, she is an Assistant Professor at Columbia University, in the Department of Biological Sciences.

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JAMIE WOYCH

Staff Associate

Jamie is from Kingston NY, and received her BS in Biochemistry from SUNY New Paltz in 2018. She previously worked in the Cellular Biology Department at Rutgers University as a research associate, working with zebrafish as models for neural development. She is a driven scientist aspiring to continue her studies on the graduate level in neuroscience. She hopes to bridge her interests in biology and neuroscience through her work in the Tosches Lab as a Staff Associate.

ALONSO GURROLA-ORTEGA

Rotation Graduate Student (Neurobiology and Behavior)

Alonso graduated from UNAM in 2017 with BA in biology. He completed a Master's in Biochemistry also at UNAM, working on the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanun) as a model for brain regeneration. He is currently a graduate student at Columbia, being mainly interested in the field of  neurodevelopment: cellular competence, chromatin dynamics, regulation of gene expression, cell type specification, and Neural Stem Cells.

ELIZA JAEGER

Rotation Graduate Student (Biology)

Eliza graduated from Middlebury College in 2017 with BA in neuroscience. Post-graduation, Eliza worked as a research technician in the Axel Lab, studying how traumatic experiences in one generation may have behavioral and anatomical effects on their offspring, alongside post-doctoral researcher Bianca Jones Marlin. As a graduate student at Columbia, she hopes to gain new insights into the fields of neurodevelopment and evolution.