Lab Members
Meet the Mazzulli Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator

Joe Mazzulli, PhD
Associate Professor in the Ken and Ruth Davee Department of Neurology
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Education and Training: Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (2012) Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2007)
Postdoctoral Fellow

Kevin Burbidge, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD (2021) Loyola University Chicago

Laetitia Francelle, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow, University Medical Center Goettingen, Germany; University of Heidelberg, Germany. Ph.D., Neurosciences, University of Paris-Sud, France.

Koh Tadokoro, M.D., Ph.D.
Ph.D., Medical Science, Okayama University, Japan (2021) M.D., Okayama University, Japan (2014)
Protein trafficking in Parkinson's disease

Willayat Wani, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Neurotoxicology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Nicole Zarate
Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (2022) B.S.A., Neuroscience, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX (2017)
Gene regulation in Synucleinopathies
Graduate Students

Annie Zalon
B.S., University of Michigan
Technical Staff

Nandkishore Belur, M.S.
Research Technologist
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M.S., Stem Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Eric Chai
M.S. Medical Biotechnology, University of Illinois College of Medicine B.S., Biochemical Science and Technology, National Taiwan University
Patient-specific iPSC modeling

Claire Morton
BA, Biological Sciences, Northwestern University, 2022

Windy Nguyen
B.S., Neuroscience, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Protein trafficking and N-glycosylation in Parkinson's Disease

John Palucki
BA, Biochemistry, Washington University in St. Louis (2018)

Drew Quiriconi
BS, Neurobiology and English, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2020)