team
postdocs
Sasha Fulton
Title: HHMI Hannah Gray Fellow
PhD: Ian Maze Lab, Mount Sinai Medicine/HHMI
B.S., Columbia University
slf2127 [at] columbia.edu
Yuki Haba
Title: Leon Levy Scholar in Neuroscience
PhD: Lindy McBride Lab, Princeton University
B.S., Tokyo University
yh2778 [at] columbia.edu
Aleksander Kaplan
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Hagai Bergman Lab, Hebrew University
B.S., University of Maryland Baltimore County
ak5200 [at] columbia.edu
Briana Nixon
Title: HHMI-LSRF Fellow
PhD: Ming Li Lab, Weill Cornell Medicine
B.S., Wesleyan University
bn2369 [at] columbia.edu
Anastasia-Maria Zavitsanou
Title: Simons Junior Fellow
PhD: Sergei Koralov & Thales Papagiannakopoulos Labs, NYU
B.S., Imperial College London
az2764 [at] columbia.edu
Anna Zhukovskaya
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD: Ilana Witten Lab, Princeton/HHMI
B.S., University of Pennsylvania
az2171 [at] columbia.edu
graduate students
Brittany Bistis
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Yale University
bb2977 [at] columbia.edu
William Foster
Title: Neurobiology and Behavior PhD student
B.S., Haverford College
wf2284 [at] columbia.edu
Preston Sheng
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Emory University
ss6573 [at] columbia.edu
Isabella Succi
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., St. Joseph’s University
is2687 [at] columbia.edu
Wesley Yu-Young Tsai
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Johns Hopkins University
yt2882 [at] columbia.edu
Viviana Vinci
Title: Biological Sciences PhD student
B.S., Northeastern University
vv2373 [at] columbia.edu
undergraduate students
Carolina Abascal
cb3803 [at] columbia.edu
Amanda Arnold
ala2214 [at] barnard.edu
Ashar Khan
adk2176 [at] columbia.edu
Sofia Marin-Quiros
sam2451 [at] columbia.edu
Simon Toney
sd3525 [at] columbia.edu
Leah Yadessa
lay2110 [at] columbia.edu
alumni
postdocs
Andre Toussaint
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow at Mount Sinai
Abdus-Saboor lab postdoc, 2022 – 2024
Simons Junior Fellow; Burroughs Wellcome Fund PDEP Fellow
Anissa Jhumka
Title: TBD
Abdus-Saboor lab postdoc, 2021 – 2024
Heather Rossi
Title: Senior Research Investigator at UPenn
Abdus-Saboor lab postdoc, 2018 – 2021
graduate students
Justin Burdge
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University
Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2020 – 2024
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship
Ryan Schwark
Title: Curation Scientist at Fulgent Genetics
Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2020 – 2024
Leah Elias
Title: JCC Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2018 – 2022
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship
Melanie Schaffler
Title: Regulatory Affairs Associate, Teva Pharmaceuticals
Abdus-Saboor lab grad student, 2018 – 2022
NIH NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship
technicians
Alexis Knight
Title: Clinical research associate, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2023 – 2024
Victoria Saltz
Title: PhD student, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2022 – 2023
Jared Boyce
Title: MSTP student, University of Wisconsin
Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2021 – 2022
Isabella Succi
Title: PhD student, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2020 – 2022
William Foster
Title: PhD student, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2018 – 2021
Jessica Jones
Title: HHMI Gilliam Fellow, UW
Abdus-Saboor lab tech, 2018 – 2020
undergraduate students
Simon Ogundare
Title: MSTP student, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2024
Bridges and Sturtevant Prize
Olaedo Udensi
Title: Undergrad student, Barnard College
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024
Max Comfere
Title: Undergrad student, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024
Aishat Bakare
Title: graduated, last position unknown
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024
Sarah Sørensen Ogata
Title: graduated, TBD
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2024
Abednego Delinois
Title: Tech, Yale University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2024
Sevilla Duran
Title: Master’s student, Stanford University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2023 – 2024
Melody Gomez
Title: Tech, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2024
Alexis Imani Marshall
Title: Tech, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2023
Jonathan Ettricks Jr.
Title: R & D intern at Iveric Bio
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2023
Phalaen Chang
Title: Post-bac, Memorial Sloan Kettering
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2023
Wadzanayi Mayiseni
Title: Post-bac, Yale University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2021 – 2023
Alexis Knight
Title: Tech, Columbia University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2022 – 2023
Justin Arnold
Title: MD student, Northwestern University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2019 – 2021
Lucie Pham
Title: MD student, Rutgers University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2019 – 2021
Samuel Kaufmann
Title: Research Fellow, SilverLining
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2019 – 2020
Justin Burdge
Title: Postdoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University
Abdus-Saboor lab undergrad, 2018 – 2019
Undergrad mentor of Ishmail in Luo lab, 2015 – 2018
summer interns
Sheldon Garrick II, Fordham University, HHMI SURP Intern (2025)
Lesley Iyamu, Columbia University; BUMP Intern (2025)
Tyla Mcaffitty, Howard University, EE Just Scholar (2024)
Jonathan Bryson-Harvey, Columbia University, SURF Intern (2024)
Joshua Samuels, St. Paul’s School (2024)
Meley Haile, Columbia University; SPURS Intern (2024)
Marianna Liistro, University of Edinburgh (2024)
Zennetta Hinojosa, UT San Antonio, Leadership Alliance Intern (2023)
Noah Loran, USC, Leadership Alliance Intern (2023)
Misha Nair, Harvard University; SPURS Intern (2023)
Francesca Whitecross, Middlebury College (2023)
Alexa Cuvilly, high school student; BRAINYAC Scholar (2023)
James Reed, high school student; BRAINYAC Scholar (2023)
Teresa Osorio, Rutgers Camden University MARC Scholar (2022)
Adetokunboh Osineye, Morehouse College; EE Just Scholar (2022)
Ralph Anderson Jr., Morehouse College; EE Just Scholar (2022)
Ziad Eltabakh, LaGuardia High School; BRAINYAC Scholar (2022)
Kayla Dennis, Penn Lens program high school student (2020)
Camille Harrison, North Carolina A&T State University; SUIP intern (2020)
Meghan Wachira, Rutgers Camden University. (2020)
Isabella Succi, St. Joseph’s University (2019)
Syphane Gibbs, North Carolina A&T U, SUIP intern (2019)
Racquel Amadi, Xavier University in Louisiana; DAPPG intern (2019)
Mariatu Fayia, Penn Lens program high school student (2019)