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
312-503-3933
Education and Training: Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (2012) Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (2007)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Mary Chalkley, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN
Synergistic treatments and metabolic dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
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.
Batten's disease, Gaucher disease, Lysosomal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease
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
Protein misfolding stress, glycosylation, Parkinson's disease
Graduate Students
Annie Zalon
B.S., University of Michigan
ER stress, unfolded protein response, Parkinson's disease
Technical Staff
Nandkishore Belur, M.S.
Research Technologist
312-503-5803
M.S., Stem Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
RNA A-to-I Editing, paraspeckles and gene regulation, Dementia with Lewy bodies, Parkinson's disease
Windy Nguyen
B.S., Neuroscience, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Protein trafficking and N-glycosylation in Parkinson's Disease
Drew Quiriconi
BS, Neurobiology and English, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2020)
Synergistic treatments for Parkinson's disease and Dementia with Lewy bodies, Protein trafficking