Polleux Lab

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Justin carried out his graduate work in the lab of Nicole Calakos at Duke University Medical Center. He joined the Polleux lab in 2017 where he studies how the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and mitochondria networks regulate spatiotemporal dynamics of dendritic calcium in the context of synaptic integration, plasticity, circuit function and behavior.

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Carlos obtained his PhD in Immunology from Weill Cornell, where he studied NK cell responses to viruses in the lab of Joseph Sun. Having developed an interest in neuroimmunology, He joined the Polleux lab in 2021 to study the role of microglia in synapse development, maintenance, and plasticity.

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Emiliano did his PhD in Dr. Pablo Helguera’s lab at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and held a postdoctoral position in Dr. Gia Voeltz’s lab at Colorado University Boulder. In 2022 he joined the Polleux lab, where he studies how organelle composition shapes neuronal function across the mouse cortex.

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Juyoun did her PhD in Larry Zipursky Lab at UCLA, where she studied molecular principles of motion-vision circuit wiring using Drosophila eyes. She joined the Polleux lab to study temporal regulation of developmental genetic programs. Outside the lab, Juyoun plays squash to practice her motion vision.

GRADUATE STUDENT

Stevie is a graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program and joined the lab in the Fall of 2019. She is studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying axon development and maintanence.

GRADUATE STUDENT

Kevin is a graduate student in the Neurobiology and Behavior program. He joined the labs of Attila Losonczy and Franck Polleux in 2019 and is interested in plasticity rules governing hippocampal circuit activity.

GRADUATE STUDENT

Sergio graduated from the City University of New York at Hunter College, where he received a B.A/M.A in Biology with a sub-specialization in Bio-technology. During his time in the Polleux lab he will be coupling genetics, molecular biology, and microscopy to understand how human-specific genetic changes impact synaptic plasticity.

GRADUATE STUDENT

Aleks is an MD-PhD student in the Neurobiology and Behavior Program. She joined the Polleux lab in 2022 and studies how human-specific gene duplications impact the timing of synaptic development.

GRADUATE STUDENT

Max obtained a BS in Neuroscience from McGill University in 2022 and is a now a graduate student in the Biological Sciences program. He joined the lab in 2023 and is collaborating with Kapil Ramachandran to study the the role of molecular machinery in hippocampal circuit function.

RESEARCH TECHNICIAN

Qiaolian earned her master's degree in Biochemistry from CUNY. Prior to joining our lab, Qiaolian worked as a Research Specialist at the Pyle and Jessell labs. She joined the Polleux lab in 2018, as a technician to help maintain the mouse colonies, creating transgenic mice and supplying timed pregnant mice for the embryos brain IUE study.

LAB MANAGER/STAFF ASSOCIATE III

Rhythm did her Master’s in Biotechnology from NYU. She worked as a Lab Manager and Research Staff Assistant at the Maniatis lab from June 2019 where she engaged in pioneering experiments to elucidate the structure and function of neural circuits in healthy and diseased mammalian systems. She joined the Polleux lab as a Lab Manager in June 2020.

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Ivan Voitov is working on synaptic and molecular mechanisms of feature selectivity in the hippocampus.