Principal Investigator

Postdocs, Research Scientists, & Staff

Portrait of Marcelo R. Zimmer, PhD

Marcelo R. Zimmer, PhD

Associate Research Scientist

Portrait of Jeremy Bober

Jeremy Bober

Research Associate

Portrait of Zhongwu Liu

Zhongwu Liu

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Portrait of Shuting Yang

Shuting Yang

Postgraduate Associate

Graduate Students

Portrait of Hector Haddock-Martinez

Hector Haddock-Martinez

PhD Student (INP)

Portrait of Anouk Corstens

Anouk Corstens

M.Sc. Student

Portrait of Jorge V. Santeli

Jorge V. Santeli

Visiting PhD Student

Students & Trainees

Portrait of Nathan Lange

Nathan Lange

Undergraduate Researcher, Yale College

Portrait of Morgan Goldstrom

Morgan Goldstrom

Undergraduate Researcher, Yale College

Portrait of Gabriel Ioshpe

Gabriel Ioshpe

Visiting High-School Student

Alumni

The lab has been shaped by a remarkable group of trainees. We are proud of where they have gone.

  • Onur Iyilikci

    Postdoctoral Associate · 2016–2025

    Assistant Professor, Koç University, Turkey

  • Delva Leão

    PhD Student · 2018–2025

    Postdoc, Mayo Clinic

  • Mahdieh Godazgar

    Postdoctoral Associate · 2020–2025

    Associate Research Scientist, Medzhitov Lab, Yale

  • Yuexuan Li

    PhD Student · 2019–2024

    Postdoc, Caltech (David Anderson Lab)

  • Jiaxing Li

    Postgraduate Associate · 2025

    Postgraduate researcher, bioinformatics

  • Nathalia Ferreira

    Postgraduate Associate · 2023–2025

  • Priyanka Agochiya

    Postgraduate Associate · 2024–2025

    Medical student

  • Dorina Azizova

    Summer Student · 2025

    Yale undergraduate

  • Gabriela Bosque

    PhD Student · HHMI Gilliam Fellow · 2017–2022

    Clinical & Scientific Writer, University of Puerto Rico

  • Samantha Hall

    Postgraduate Associate · 2022

    Postgraduate Associate, Horvath Lab, Yale

  • Bruna Costa Lima

    Postgraduate Associate · 2020–2022

    PhD Student, Arizona State University

  • Gustavo Santana

    M.Sc. Student · PGCI Fellow · 2019–2021

    PhD Student, Yale

  • Lucas Kim

    Undergraduate & Postgraduate · 2017–2021

    Physician (Yale M.D.)

  • Luis Mercado

    Undergraduate Student · 2020–2021

    Data analyst

  • Marcelo Garroni

    Visiting Medical Student · PGCI Fellow · 2020–2021

    MD/PhD student, UFRGS

  • Esther Florsheim

    Postdoc (co-mentored, Medzhitov Lab) · 2017–2020

    Assistant Professor, Arizona State University

  • Juliana Fan

    Undergraduate Student, Yale · 2017–2020

    Medical student, Johns Hopkins

  • Heidi Dong

    Undergraduate Student, Yale · 2018–2020

    Medical student, NYU

  • Arthur Albuquerque

    Visiting Medical Student · PGCI Fellow · 2018–2020

    Physician (UFRJ)

  • Rafael Dai Prá

    M.Sc. Student · PGCI Fellow · 2016–2019

    PhD Student, Yale (Gracheva Lab)

  • Antonio Fonseca

    M.Sc. Student · PGCI Fellow · 2016–2019

    PhD Student, Yale (van Dijk Lab)

  • Jamachi Eluchie

    Undergraduate Student, Yale · 2018–2019

    Postgraduate, University of Maryland

  • Shivangi Goswami

    Summer Student · Amgen Scholar (UCLA) · 2019

    Undergraduate, UCLA

  • André Borba

    M.Sc. Student, Biochemistry · 2016–2020

  • Julie Nguyen

    Research Assistant · 2017–2018

  • Fernando Carvalho

    Postdoctoral Associate · 2016–2017

    Postdoc, Medzhitov Lab, Yale

  • Le'Vena Tan

    Undergraduate, King's College London · 2016–2017

    M.P.H. student, UNC Chapel Hill

  • Bernardo Arús

    Undergraduate, UFRGS · 2016–2017

    PhD Candidate, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Munich

  • Sarah Ornellas

    Undergraduate, Yale · STARS Fellow · 2016

  • João Albuquerque

    Visiting PhD Student · Science Without Borders · 2015–2016

    Postdoc, University of Manchester

  • Ariana Schmitz

    Visiting PhD Student · Science Without Borders · 2015

    Clinical nutrition specialist

  • Julia Fabião

    Summer M.D. Student · 2015

    Physician

  • Istvan Toth

    Visiting PhD Student · 2014

    Postdoc, Szent István University

Join us

We’re recruiting

The lab is actively looking for postdocs and students who are excited about developmental neuroscience, body–brain physiology, and comparative biology. If that’s you, we’d love to hear from you.

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