McMahan Lab

Former Lab Members

Postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates, senior research scientists, staff members,and professors on sabbatical leave from their home institutions who, beginning in 1969, worked in the lab at Harvard or at Stanford from several months to several years.

Postdoctoral Fellows	Current Position

Nicholas Spitzer	Professor, Department of Biology, UCSD, San Diego, CA
Dale Purves	Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Duke Medical School and Director, Duke Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Durham, NC
Michael Letinsky	Emeritus professor, Department of Physiology, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA
Shlomo Rotshenker	Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, The Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Ann Yee	Adjunct professor, Department of Biology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Lawrence Marshall	President and CEO, L K Hawke, Inc., Monterey, CA
Josh Sanes	Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director, Center for Brain Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Eric Frank	Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Steve Burden	Professor and Coordinator, Molecular Neurobiology, Skirball Institute, NYU, NYC
Peter Sargent	Professor and Chairman, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Duane Edgington	Software Engineering Group Leader. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Monterey, CA
Damien Kuffler	Professor, Institute of Neurobiology and Department of Physiology, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Lee Rubin	Senior Vice President of Research and Chief Scientific Officer at Curis, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Earl Godfrey	Professor and Vice Chairman, Department of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA
Ralph Nitkin	Extramural Program Director, Biological Science and Career Development Program, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Lili Anglister	Senior Lecturer, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Elizabeth Connor	Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA
Megan Yao	Director and Unit Head of Oncology Pharmacology, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Ron Maron	Managing Director, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Justin Fallon	Professor, Medical Science, Brown University, Providence, RI
Martin Smith	Professor, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of California, Irvine, CA
Jane Howard	Associate Professor, Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Thomas Miller	Extramural Program Director, Technology Development, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD
Karl Tsim	Professor, Department of Biology, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Markus Ruegg	Professor, Division of Pharmacology/Neurobiology, Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland
Stephan Kröger	Professor, Molecular Cell Biology, Lausitz University of Applied Sciences, Senftenberg, Germany
Gerard Escher	Science advisor, Office of the State Secretary, Swiss Science Agency, Berne, Switzerland
Michael Werle	Associate Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Kansas Medical School, Kansas City, KS
Lawrence Honig	Associate Professor of Clinical Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, NYC
Jessilee Northington	Sr. Clinical Research Associate, ICON Clinical research, Nashville, TN
Han Chang	Senior Research Investigator, Bioinformatics, The Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Bristol Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ
Mendell Rimer	Assistant Professor, Section of Neurobiology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Texas, Austin, TX
Ilana Cohen	Research Scientist, Peptor Ltd., Rohovot, Israel
Mikael Schwarz	Head of Research, Adante Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel
Mikio Hoshino	Associate Professor, Department of Pathology and Tumor Biology, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan
Arne Stoschek	Head of Displays, Sensors and Materials, Electronic Research Lab of Volkswagen of America, Palo Alto, CA
David Ress	Research Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin,TX
Mark Harlow	Research Associate, U.J. McMahan Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

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Graduate Students

Bruce Antelman	President, Information Express, Palo Alto & NYC; President, Reviews.com, NYC
Noreen Reist	Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
Catherine Magill-Solc	Freelance Science Writer, Palo Alto , CA
Sharon Horton	Senior Process Development Engineer, Alexza Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Mark Harlow	Research Associate, U.J. McMahan Laboratory, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Zihong Fan	Graduate Student, Magnetic Resonance Engineering Lab, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Sharuna Nagwaney	Bain & Company, Munich, Germany
Jing Xu	Merck Research Laboratory, Rahway, NJ

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Undergraduate Students

Kenneth Fischbeck

Senior Investigator, Neurogenetics Branch, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD

Edward Callaway

Associate Professor, Systems Neurobiology Laboratories, Salk Institute, San Diego, CA

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Senior Research Scientists

Bruce Wallace	Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, CO.
David Ress	Research Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Center for Perceptual Systems, University of Texas at Austin, Austin,TX

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Staff

Yiran Wang-zhu	La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, La Jolla, CA
Cornelia Koch-Stoschek	Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA
David Yip
Mira Raman

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Sabbaticals

Rami Rahamimoff	Professor, Department of Physiology, The Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel. Chief Scientist, Israel Ministry of Health.
Micha Spira	Professor of Neurobiology and Director, Smith Laboratory, National Institute for Psychobiology, The Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Clarke Slater	Professor (Emeritus), School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, University of Newcastle, UK
Miriam Salpeter	Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (deceased)
Chien-Ping Ko	Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Terje Lomo	Professor (Emeritus), Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Neurophysiology, University of Oslo, Norway
Thomas Reese	Senior Investigator, Structural Cell Biology Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD

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