Lab Members
Meet the people who contribute to the research in the Krainc Lab.
Principal Investigator

Dimitri Krainc, MD, PhD
Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, Simpson Querrey Center for Neurogenetics
Aaron Montgomery Ward Professor
Professor of Neurology in the Division of Movement Disorders, Neurological Surgery, Neuroscience and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Lab Manager

Binh Doan
Assistant Professors


Research Assistant Professors





Postdoctoral Fellows

Sarah Brooker

Bernabe Ignacio Bustos

Neil Chatterjee

Robert Coukos

Ge Gao

Mariana Hernandez Gonzalez-Monje

Ignacio Juan Keller Sarmiento

Georgia Minakaki
Research Technologists

Ezekiel Bello

Grace Naylor

Adeyemi Thomas
Graduate Students

Namitha Alexander

Sarah Matatov

Leonie Schroder
Visiting Scholars

Walaa Elsayed
Recent Alumni
- Wesley Peng - Neurology Resident at MGHB, Harvard Medical School
- Soojin Kim - Group Leader at Genentech
- Aaron Early - Postdoc at UCSF
- Maria Nyugen - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio
- Clarissa Valdez - Postdoc at UT Southwestern
- Valentina Gallon-Morris - Law Student
- Briana Plourde - Research Assistant, Northwestern University
- Nastja Turkanovic - Master's Student, University of Ljubljana
- Julie Dickson - Molecular Biologist at IHMA
- Nick Marotta - PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
- Fanding Gao - Associate Scientist, insitro
- Rachel Wise - Post-doc, LMU-Munich
- Aaron Earley - Post-doc, UCSF
- Lena Burbulla - Associate Professor at Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
- Hyunkyung Jeong - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio
- Yvette Wong - Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
- Michael Schwake - Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany
- Daniel Ysselstein - Director at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
- Maria Nguyen - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
- Jianbin Zhang - Group Leader at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
- Soojin Kim - Group Leader at Genentech
- Jing Hu - Neurology Resident, China
- Max Garhammer - Graduate Student, Munich, Germany
- Julia Veitinger - Graduate Student, Emory University
- Gerlis Haugwitz - Graduate Student, Germany
- Dali Liu - Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Loyola University
- Zhihua Yang - Neurology Resident
- Nick Blair - Faculty at University of Sydney, Australia (deceased)
- Taiji Tsunemi - Associate Professor of Neurology, Toyko, Japan
- Jessica McDonald - Group Leader at LTI (biotech), Cambridge, MA
- John Graziotto - Group Leader at LTI (biotech), Cambridge, MA
- Anthone Dunah - Group Leader at Biogen (deceased in 2020)
- Jessica Zhou - Assistant Professor, Rush Medical School
- Katrin Lindenberg - Neurology Faculty, Freiburg, Germany
- Fran Borovecki, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Zagreb Medical School
- Luca Lovrecic, MD, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Ljubljana Medical School
- Florian Then, MD - Partner, McKinsey Consulting
- Marija Usenovic - Senior Scientist at Merck
- Philip Seibler - Associate Professor, University of Luebeck, Germany
- Martina Kuzman - Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Zagreb Medical School
- Vinko Palada - Assistant Professor, University of Helsinki
- Shyam Tangaturi - Assistant Professor, Harvard University
- Petra Mamic - Resident and Fellow, Stanford University
- Isabella Pallazzolo - Senior Scientist at Biogen, Eli Lilly
- Clarissa Valdez - Post-doc, Marc Diamond Lab, UT Southwestern
- Katrina Trajkovic - Group Leader at Medils
- Sohee Jeon - PhD Student, University of Illinois, Chicago
- Tiffany Young - Scientist at CiRC Biosciences