Laboratory Alumni

Students in Stryker Lab:Current position (2021)
Kathleen R. Zahs, Ph.D. 1987Professor and Director of Translational Research, Univ of Minnesota
Kenneth D. Miller, Ph.D. 1989Professor, of Neuroscience, Columbia Univ
Holger Reiter, Ph.D. 1990CEO, Technical Language Services, Inc.
Barbara Chapman, Ph.D. 1991Professor, Univ of California, Davis (deceased)
Jo Beth De Freitas, M.S. 1991Vice President of Quality Operations, Samsung BioLogics
Robert Feldman, M.D. With Thesis 1992Emergency Medicine Physician, Professor, Rush Medical College, Director Cook Count Distaster
Edward S. Ruthazer, Ph.D. 1996Professor of Neuroscience, McGill Univ
Joshua. Gordon, Ph.D. 1996Director, National Institute of Mental Health
Takao Hensch, Ph.D. 1996Professor of Biology, Harvard University and Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
Deda C. Gillespie, Ph.D. 1998Professor of Neuroscience, McMaster University
Michael A. Silver, Ph.D. 1999Professor of Vision Science and Neuroscience, Univ of California, Berkeley
Sharif Taha, Ph.D. 2001Senior Director, ImmunityBio
Jessica L. Hanover, Ph.D. 2002Vice President, Corporate Affairs, Cerus
Laila Dadvand, Ph.D. 2006Internist, New York
Matthew Caywood, Ph.D. 2009CEO and Co-founder, Actionfigure
Melinda Owens, Ph.D. 2011Asst Teaching Professor of Biology, Univ of California, San Diego
Anna Lebedeva, Visiting Masters 2017PhD student, University College, London
Elma Frias, Ph.D. 2022Postdoctoral Fellow, Altos Labs
Postdoctoral fellows, including clinical fellows:Current position (2021)
Axel Schoppmann, 1979-1981Manager, Baxter Health, Vienna Austria
Margaret Law, 1982-1984unknown
Robert M. Levy, 1983-1984Chair of Neurosurgery, Univ of Florida
David Waitzman, 1985-1986Professor of Neurology, Univ of Connecticutt
Gary Baker, 1990-1992Senior Lecturer, The Open University, London, UK (deceased)
Yoshio Hata, 1992-1994Professor of Neuroscience, Tottori Univ Medical School, Japan
Michael Crair, 1995-1998Professor and Vice-Dean, Yale Univ Medical School
Michela Fagiolini, 1995-1997Assoc Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Tony Pham, 1996-1999Psychiatrist in private practice, Houston, Texas
Joshua Trachtenberg 1997-2000Professor of Neurobiology, UCLA
Christopher Trepel 1997-2000Chief Scientist, Lowell.com consultancy
Naomi Ruff 1998-2000President, RuffDraft Communications LLC
Naoum Issa 1997-2001Assoc Professor of Neurology, Univ of Chicago
Virginia Desa 1998-2001Professor of Cognitive Science, UCSD
Marcos Frank 1997-2002Professor and Chair of Physiology, Washington State Univ
Valery Kalatsky 2001-2004Software Engineer, Google
Jianhua Cang 2003-2006Professor and Chair of Neuroscience, Univ of Virginia
Tatyana Sharpee 2003-2007Professor of Neuroscience, Salk institute and of Physics, UCSD
Masaaki Sato 2004-2009Lecturer in Physiology Pharmacology, Hokkaido Univ, Japan
Marianne Fyhn 2008-2010Prof of Neurobiology, Univ of Oslo, Norway
Torkel Hafting Fyhn 2008-2010Assoc Prof of Physiology, Univ of Oslo, Norway
Sunil Gandhi 2004-2011Assoc Prof of Neurobiology and Behavior, Univ of California, Irvine
Cristopher Niell 2005-2011Assoc Prof of Biology, Univ of Oregon
Dan Darcy 2009-2013Senior Staff Scientist, Dolby Laboratories
Juan Sebastian Espinosa 2009-2015Director, Corporate Strategy, AbbVie
Yu Fu 2011-2015A*Star Professor, Singapore
Maria Dadarlat 2014-2019Asst Prof of Bioengineering, Purdue Univ.
Nikhil Bhatla 2016-2018Miller Fellow, Univ of California, Berkeley
Yujiao Jennifer Sun 2015-2020Lecturer, University College, London, UK
Mahmood Hoseini Faradonbeh, PhD. 2017-2023Cloud Engineer Manager, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise
Sara Hosseinchi Gharehaghaji, DMV 2021-2023Private Practice
Benjamin Rakela 2018-2025Neuroscientist, Science Corporation
Research staff and sabbatical visitors:Current position (2021)
Sheri Harris 1980-2014Retired
Antonella Antonini 1992-2002Retired
Siegrid Löwel 2002-2003Professor of Neurobiology, Univ of Göttingen, Germany
Megumi Kaneko 2003-2025Retired