Team
Center leadership
Steve McCarroll, PhD
Steve is an institute member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and director of genomic neurobiology for the Broad’s Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. He is also Dorothy and Milton Flier Professor ...
Evan Macosko, MD, PhD
Evan is an institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where he directs a lab in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. He is also an associate professor and attending psychiatrist ...
Kiku Ichihara, MBA
Kiku is the Managing Director of the Center for Human Brain Variation and the Director of Research Strategy & Operations in the McCarroll Lab. She works closely with the Center Directors on overall ...
Co-investigators
Mehrtash Babadi, PhD
Mehrtash is the Director of Computational Methods at the Data Sciences Platform (DSP), Broad Institute. His group develops probabilistic machine learning methods and cloud-native software products for ...
Randy Buckner, PhD
Randy is the Sosland Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Harvard University and affiliated with the Center for Brain Science. He is also Professor at the Harvard Medical School and ...
Fei Chen, PhD
Fei is a Core Faculty member at the Broad Institute and assistant professor at Harvard Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. He obtained his Ph.D. in biological engineering from the Massachusetts Institute ...
Elise Robinson, ScD, MPH
Elise is an Assistant Professor in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She ...
Charles Vanderburg, PhD
Charles (Chuck) Vanderburg is a senior scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. He develops methods to enable single nucleus and spatial analyses of micro-scale histopathological regions ...
Joshua Welch, PhD
Josh is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. He did graduate training at the University of North Carolina and postdoctoral research at the Broad Institute. A computer scientist by ...
Project Management and Operations
Rossini Fernandez, MBA
Rossini is a Senior Administrative Assistant of the Center for Human Brain Variation project at the Broad. Before joining the broad, she held many administrative positions ranging from Manager of an ...
Emily Finn
Emily is a Project Coordinator for the Center for Human Brain Variation focused on advancing various project components for BICAN. Prior to joining the Broad team, Emily managed multiple projects in ...
Katelyn Flowers
Katelyn is a Project Manager in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research. As the project manager for the Macosko lab, she has worked on various brain sequencing projects including BICCN grants: ...
Marina Hogan
Marina is a Project Manager for the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research and supports Steve McCarroll’s lab. She has worked on various human genetic variation projects to better understand ...
Curtis Mello
Curtis is the Lab Manager and a Research Assistant in the McCarroll lab at HMS, and will be joining the BICAN project as Manager of Lab Operations. In the McCarroll lab, he helped optimize "village ...
Sabrin Mohamednur
Sabrin is the Scientific Outreach Coordinator of the Center for Human Brain Variation project. As the coordinator she will oversee the implementation of the plans to enhance diverse perspectives as ...
Alex Werley, MS
Alex is the Operations Lead, Center for Human Brain Variation at Broad Institute, overseeing financial and grants management for this project. She has a Master of Science in nonprofit management. ...
Computational Analysis
Steve Burger, PhD
Steve is a Computational Scientist in the McCarroll Lab. In graduate school, he studied X-inactivation mosaicism and the effects of X-linked mutations in the human brain. His research interests ...
Bennett Ferris, PhD
Bennett is a Computational Scientist in the Macosko Lab. He is interested in using the tools of bioinformatics and machine learning to shed light on the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. Prior ...
Stephen Fleming, PhD, MPhil
Stephen is a Machine Learning Scientist II in the Methods Group of the Data Sciences Platform at the Broad Institute. He works on developing analytical methods and machine learning models for single ...
Haley Fritch, PhD
Haley joined the McCarroll Lab as a computational scientist in May 2023. She received a PhD in cognitive neuroscience from Boston College and a BS in psychobiology from UCLA. Prior to joining the ...
Giulio Genovese, PhD
Giulio is a mathematician by training. His main area of expertise is in models to detect mosaic chromosomal alterations. Giulio has experience in computer languages and statistical languages such as ...
Melissa Goldman
Melissa is a data analytics manager in the McCarroll lab. She developed Drop-seq with Evan Macosko, and worked at the bench for over 8 years specializing in single-cell technologies. She now works ...
Matt Karikomi, PhD
Matt is postdoctoral fellow in Joshua Welch's lab modeling the interaction between genomic regulatory grammar and cell fate. He received his PhD in computational biology from UC Irvine, and BS in ...
Seva Kashin
Seva is a software engineer in Steven McCarroll's lab and has worked on various copy number variation and single cell analysis projects. He's very excited by neuroscience, literature and history.
Jonah Langlieb
Jonah is a Senior Computational Associate in the Macosko Lab. His research focuses on developing and applying methods to analyze large-scale single-cell datasets and is excited to work with all this ...
James Nemesh
Jim is a Principal Software Engineer at the Broad Institute and a McCarroll Lab member. Jim develops new methods to analyze scRNASeq data and assists in workflow/QC design of scRNASeq datasets for ...
Mukund Raj
Mukund is a Senior Software Engineer in the Macosko Lab. He enjoys building interactive, visual analytic web portals, as well as developing visualizations for large, geometric, or high-dimensional ...
Nicole Rockweiler, PhD
Nicole is a postdoctoral associate in Steven McCarroll's lab and is interested in understanding the causes and consequences of mosaicism in health and disease. Nicole received her PhD in ...
Matthew Shabet
Matthew is an associate computational biologist working in the Macosko Lab. He is currently studying the epigenetic characteristics of neuronal cell types vulnerable to degeneration in Parkinson’s ...
Khalid Shakir, MS
Khalid is a software engineer who uses his expertise to scale scientific analyses. During his time at the Broad Institute he contributed to projects including the 1000 Genomes Project and the ...
Jonah Silverman
Jonah is an Associate Computational Biologist in the Macosko Lab. His work focuses on the application and development of computational methods for the processing and analysis of single-cell datasets.
Alec Wysoker
Alec is a software engineer who develops tools to analyze genomic and transcriptomic data.
Olivia Yoo
Olivia is a Computational Associate in the McCarroll lab analyzing the quality and content of the single-cell sequencing data. Prior to joining the Broad, she studied computational neuroscience and ...
Data Generation
Karol Balderrama
Karol is a research associate at Macosko and Chen labs. She graduated for The University of Texas at El Paso with a Microbiology major. She works in optimizing and applying a spatial transcriptomic ...
Nikita Budnik
Nikita is a Research Associate II in the McCarroll and Macosko labs. Previous work at the Broad Institute includes ion channelopathy studies for the Jen Pan lab, and protein–protein interaction ...
Madelynn Coe
Madelynn is an undergraduate co-op researcher at the Center for Human Brain Variation. She is currently in her fourth year at Northeastern University pursuing a degree in behavioral neuroscience with ...
Sadie Drouin
Sadie is a Research Associate I for the McCarroll & Macosko BICAN project. She is a recent graduate from Wheaton College MA with a B.S. in Neuroscience on the Pre-Medical Track. Prior to joining the ...
Kathleen Kim
Kathleen is a Research Associate I working on the BICAN project for the McCarroll & Macosko labs and studying X-linked Dystonia Parkinsonism. Prior to joining the Broad, she researched ...
Vipin Kumar, PhD
Vipin is a nucleic acid chemist working on developing oligonucleotides for spatial transcriptomic technology. In addition, he also works on developing artificial oligonucleotides and their application ...
Lauren Macaisa
Lauren is a Research Associate II focused on organizing and optimizing wet lab protocols for the McCarroll & Macosko BICAN lab efforts. Prior to working at the Broad, Lauren worked at Moffitt Cancer ...
Giovanni Marrero
Giovanni is a Research Associate III and the Lab Manager for the Chen Lab. After graduating from Syracuse University with a BS in Biotechnology, he studied immunology at the University of Pittsburgh ...
Julianna Milidantri
Julianna is a Research Associate I at the Center for Human Brain Variation. While earning her bachelor's degree from Northeastern University, she engaged in a variety of academic and industry ...
Naeem Nadaf, BDS
Naeem is an International dentist from India working as Research Scientist 1 in the Macosko lab. Naeem is working on snRNA seq experiments and he has created and optimized various snRNA seq and ...
Nirmala Rayan, PhD
Nirmala is a Senior Scientist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she specializes in studying the cellular correlates of inter-individual brain variation. As part of the BICAN team, she ...
Liv Spina
Liv is an Associate Research and Operational Assistant in the McCarroll Lab. She runs nuclei isolation protocols for single-cell sequencing and assists in lab management tasks, such as setting up the ...
Nafiseh Yavari, PhD
Nafiseh is a Research Scientist at Broad Institute. Her research focus has been on optimizing the Single Cell Multiome ATAC + Gene Expression to human brain tissues, particularly midbrain subregions ...