HOWARDLAB - Key Persons


Adrian Hall


Alexander Chasteen

Job Titles:
  • Student Employee

Aliona Bogdanova

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate at MPI - CBG ( Former Postdoc )

Alvaro Crevenna

Job Titles:
  • Head of Microscopy, EMBL Rome ( Former Predoc )

Amer Al-Hiyasat

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  • Research Associate

Anna Luchniak

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  • Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca ( Former Postdoc )

Anneke Hibbel

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  • Department Manager University of Zurich ( Former Predoc )

Anton Khmelinskii

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  • Group Leader, Institute of Molecular Biology ( IMB ), Mainz ( Former Diploma Student )

Ashley Arthur

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  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Brian Beitler

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  • Undergraduate Student

Catherine McGuinness

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  • Quality Assurance Manager Stoney Creek Brewery ( Former Predoc )

Cerasela Dinu

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  • Professor at West Virginia University ( Former Predoc )

Christian Bruchatz

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  • Research Associate Bei TU Dresden ( Former Diploma Student )

Christoph Schiklenk

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  • Principal Investigator at Sanofi Deutschland ( Former Diploma Student )

Claire Friel

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  • Lecturer at University of Nottingham, UK ( Former Postdoc )

Claudia Schirmer

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  • Scientist, Biotechnology Center TU Dresden ( Former Diploma Student )

Erik Schäffer

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  • Professor of Cellular Nanoscience, Universität Tübingen ( Former Postdoc )

ETH Zurich

Job Titles:
  • Scientist

Eugene Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry / Professor of Physics
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics
  • Lab Head
  • Professor

Fernando Carrillo

Job Titles:
  • Head of Data Science CoE at Henkel ( Former Postdoc )

Gary Brouhard

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  • Associate Professor McGill University ( Former Postdoc )

Haiyan Wang

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  • Associate Professor, Beijing Normal University ( Former Visiting Scientist )

Horatiu Fantana

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager at University4Industry ( Former Predoc )

Hugo Bowne-Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Data Scientist at Coiled ( Former Postdoc )

Ingmar Riedel-Kruse

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  • Associate Professor, University of Arizona ( Former Predoc )

Ioanna Kougianou

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Isabelle Top

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  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
Isabelle (she/her) is a senior majoring in Neuroscience. Isabelle joined the Howard lab in March 2021 and has been working under Dr. Sonal Shree on her senior thesis titled, "Characterization of Spastin Mutant in Drosophila Class IV Neurons." She was supported by the Kavli Summer Neuroscience Research Fellowship through the Yale College Dean's Office (Summer 2021). Isabelle is currently applying to PhD programs in Neuroscience and Cancer Biology.

Ivy (Pei-Tzu) Huang

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Jonathon Howard

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry / Professor of Physics
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics
  • Lab Head
Jonathon (Joe) Howard is a biophysicist interested in how motor proteins and the cytoskeleton shape and move cells. He uses optical and mechanical techniques to study the behavior of individual molecules, and uses theory and computation to understand how molecular interactions give rise to coordinated, collective behavior at the cell level. After studying mathematics (B.Sc.) and neurobiology (Ph.D.) at the Australian National University in Canberra, he has moved around geographically-Bristol, San Francisco, Seattle, Heidelberg, Dresden, New Haven-where he has pursued a diverse range of scientific interests including vision, audition, intracellular transport, mitosis, cell motility, embryonic development and neuronal morphogenesis.

Joshua Alper

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  • Assistant Professor Clemson University ( Former Postdoc )

Kamaldeep Singh

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  • Student Employee

Khaled Khairy

Job Titles:
  • Scientist, Janelia Farm ( Former Postdoc )
  • Scientist, Janelia Farm ( Former Postdoc ) Scientist, Janelia Farm

Kris (Yin-wei) Kuo


Magdalena Preciado-Lopez

Job Titles:
  • Scientist, Group Leader Cell Biology, Assay Development & Biochemistry Calico Life Sciences ( Former Diploma Student )

Maria Feofilova

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  • Postdoctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich ( Former Predoc )

Marija Podolski

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  • Senior Scientist at Fidelta ( Former Predoc )

Marija Zanic

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  • Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University ( Former Postdoc )

Marko Storch

Job Titles:
  • Head of SynBio and Automation Synbicite ( Former Postdoc )

Max Planck

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  • Scientific Member

Melissa Gardner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota ( Former Postdoc )

Mohammed Mahamdeh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of the Molecular Imaging Center / Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital ( Former Postdoc )

Olivier Trottier


Pablo Sartori

Job Titles:
  • Principal Investigator Instituto Gulbenkian De Ciência ( IGC ) ( Former Postdoc )

Raj Basak

Job Titles:
  • Investment Banking Associate ( Former Predoc )

Raymond Adkins

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  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Regine Hartmann

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  • Technician, University of Queensland, Brisbane ( Former Technician )

Ron Orbach

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  • Assistant Professor Bar - Ilan University ( Former Postdoc )

Sabyasachi Sutradhar

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  • Postdoctoral Associate

Sarah Stratmann

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  • Patent Attorney ( Former Diploma Student )

Sean Liu

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  • Student Employee

Sofia Fausone


Sonal Shree

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  • Postdoctoral Associate

Stefan Diez

Job Titles:
  • Group Leader at TU Dresden ( Former Postdoc )

Sujoy Ganguly

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  • Senior Engineering Manager at Unity Technologies ( Former Postdoc )

Susanne Bechstedt

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor McGill University ( Former Predoc )

Thomas Torng

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Veikko Geyer

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, TU Dresden ( Former Postdoc )

Vikram Mukundan

Job Titles:
  • MEMS Engineer at Formfactor Inc., CA. ( Former Postdoc )

Volker Bormuth

Job Titles:
  • Scientist, Sorbonne University ( Former Predoc )

Xin Liang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor Tsinghua University ( Former Postdoc )

Zeren Toksoy