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Lab Members

Meet the people who contribute to the research in the Krainc Lab.

 

Principal Investigator

Dimitri Krainc

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

krainc( at )northwestern.edu

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Lab Manager

Binh Doan

Binh Doan

binh.doan( at )northwestern.edu

Assistant Professors

Paulina Gonzalez Latapi

Paulina Gonzalez Latapi, MD

Assistant Professor

paulina.latapi( at )northwestern.edu

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Niccolo Mencacci

Niccolo Mencacci, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

niccolo.mencacci( at )northwestern.edu

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Research Assistant Professors

Maria Armakola

Maria Armakola, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

maria.armakola( at )northwestern.edu

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Myung Jong Kim

Myung Jong Kim, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

myung.kim( at )northwestern.edu

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Nathaniel Safren

Nathaniel Safren

Research Assistant Professor

nathaniel.safren( at )northwestern.edu

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Pingping Song

Pingping Song, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

pingping.song( at )northwestern.edu

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Yueqin Zhou

Yueqin Zhou

Research Assistant Professor

yueqin.zhou( at )northwestern.edu

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Sarah Brooker

Sarah Brooker

Sarah-Brooker( at )northwestern.edu

Bernabe Ignacio Bustos

Bernabe Ignacio Bustos

bernabe.bustos( at )northwestern.edu

Neil Chatterjee

Neil Chatterjee

diptaman.chatterjee( at )northwestern.edu

Robert Coukos

Robert Coukos

robert.coukos( at )northwestern.edu

Ge Gao

Ge Gao

ge.gao1( at )northwestern.edu

Mariana Hernandez Gonzalez-Monje

Mariana Hernandez Gonzalez-Monje

mariana.hgmonje( at )northwestern.edu

Ignacio Juan  Keller Sarmiento

Ignacio Juan Keller Sarmiento

iignacio.sarmiento( at )northwestern.edu

Georgia Minakaki

Georgia Minakaki

georgia.minakaki( at )northwestern.edu

Wei Wang

Wei Wang

wei.wang2( at )northwestern.edu

Research Technologists

Ezekiel Bello

Ezekiel Bello

ezekiel.bello( at )northwestern.edu

Grace Naylor

Grace Naylor

grace.naylor( at )northwestern.edu

Adeyemi Thomas

Adeyemi Thomas

adeyemi.thomas( at )northwestern.edu

Graduate Students

Sarah Matatov

Sarah Matatov

Sarah.matatov( at )northwestern.edu

Leonie Schroder

Leonie Schroder

leonie.schroder( at )northwestern.edu

Visiting Scholars

Walaa Elsayed

Walaa Elsayed

walaa.elsayed( at )northwestern.edu

Recent Alumni

  • Wesley Peng - Neurology Resident at MGHB, Harvard Medical School
  • Soojin Kim - Senior Scientist at Genentech, San Francisco
  • Aaron Early - Postdoc at UCSF, San Francisco
  • Maria Nyugen - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
  • Clarissa Valdez - Postdoc at UT Southwestern, Dallas
  • Briana Plourde - Research Assistant, Northwestern University
  • Nastja Turkanovic - Master's Student, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Julie Dickson - Molecular Biologist at IHMA, Chicago
  • Gonen Memisoglu, post-doc at University of Chicago
  • Nick Marotta - PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
  • Fanding Gao - Associate Scientist, Insitro, San Francisco
  • Rachel Wise - Post-doc, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
  • Lena Burbulla - Associate Professor at Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich
  • Hyunkyung Jeong - Senior Scientist at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
  • Yvette Wong - Assistant Professor at Northwestern University
  • Michael Schwake - Professor at Bielefeld University in Germany
  • Daniel Ysselstein - Director of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
  • Jianbin Zhang - Director of Med Chem at Vanqua Bio, Chicago
  • 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, China
  • 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
  • Katarina Trajkovic - Group Leader at Medils
  • Sohee Jeon - PhD Student, University of Illinois, Chicago
  • Tiffany Young - Scientist at CiRC Biosciences