CURRENT LAB MEMBERS
Andrea Hasenstaub, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Coleman Memorial Laboratories in the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her BS in Mathematics and Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California; a M.Phil. in Biological Anthropology from Cambridge University, England; and a PhD in Neurobiology at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, followed by a fellowship at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
James Bigelow is a postdoctoral fellow studying central consequences of hearing loss, as well as how auditory cortical encoding is influenced by sensory and behavioral context. He earned a BS in Psychology from Utah State University and a PhD in Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Iowa, and has been a member of the Hasenstaub Lab since 2015.
Timothy Olsen is a postdoctoral scholar who started in 2019 after receiving his PhD from the University of Leicester in England. His research interests include plasticity of neurons in the auditory cortext.
Toshiaki Suzuki is a postdoctoral fellow studying sensory information processing. He received Bachelor and Master's degrees in Pharmaceutical science from Nagoya City University and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science at the Nagoya University. After he spent as a postdoc in Japan and has been a member of the Hasenstaub Lab since 2022.
Philine Marchetta earned a BS in Biology at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, a MS in Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at the University of Marburg in Germany and a PhD in Pharmacy at the University of Tuebingen. She joined the lab in 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow with the aim to study the circuit and cellular basis of developmental cortical plasticity following interneuron precursor transplants.
Yulang Wu a postdoctoral researcher, is investigating the interconnected responses of the visual and auditory cortices to visual and acoustic stimuli. His research also focuses on unraveling the connections between hearing loss and Alzheimer's disease. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Central China Normal University, a Master's degree in Economics, a Master's degree in Computer Science, and a Ph.D. in Geophysics from the University of Texas at Dallas. He joined the Hasenstaub Lab in September 2023.
Natalia Santiago is the current lab manager who joined the Hasenstaub Lab in June 2022 after receiving her BS in Neuroscience from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. She plans to go to graduate school in 2024 and hopes to find an area of study throughout her time in the lab.
Ying Hu is a third-year undergraduate from Tsinghua University and joined the Hasenstaub Lab as a summer intern on June 24, 2023. She has a keen interest in cortical inhibitory circuitry and hopes to gain more research experience throughout her time in the lab.
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PAST LAB MEMBERS
Calvin Foss was lab manager for the Hasenstaub Lab from 2021-2023. He is currently in graduate school studying for a PhD in Imaging Science at the Washington University in St. Louis.
Stephanie Bazarini was lab manager from 2019-2021 and is now pursuing her PhD at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Ryan Morrill was a graduate student in the neuroscience program and graduated from the lab in 2021 with his PhD to join Columbia University as a postdoctoral fellow.