Personnel

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A Spring lab photo on the NIH grounds, April 12, 2022. Back row, from left: Jong Park, Daniel Castranova, Keith Ameyaw, Madeleine Kenton, Kanako Inoue, Jian Ming (Jimmy) Khor, Yehyun (Abby) Kim, John Prevedel. Front row, from left: Brant Weinstein, Leah Greenspan, Aurora Kraus, Van Pham,. Miranda Marvel, Celia Martinez-Aceves, Kiyohito Taimatsu.

Lab Staff

Brant M. Weinstein

Brant M. Weinstein

Senior Investigator
Email: weinsteb@mail.nih.gov
Van N. Pham

Van N. Pham

Lab Manager
Email: phamVa@mail.nih.gov
Daniel Castranova

Daniel Castranova

Aquatic Research Specialist
Email: castrand@mail.nih.gov
Madeleine Kenton headshot.

Madeleine Kenton

Aquatic Research Specialist
Email: madeleine.kenton@nih.gov

Postdoctoral Fellows

Leah Greenspan

Leah Greenspan

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: leah.greenspan@nih.gov
Kanako Inoue

Kanako Inoue

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: kanako.inoue@nih.gov
Jimmy Khor

Jimmy Khor

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: jianming.khor@nih.gov
Aurora Kraus

Aurora Kraus

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: aurora.kraus@nih.gov
Miranda Marvel

Miranda Marvel

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: miranda.marvel@nih.gov
Jong Park headshot.

Jong Park

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: jong.park@nih.gov
Kiyohito Taimatsu

Kiyohito Taimatsu

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: kiyohito.taimatsu@nih.gov

Postbaccalaureate Fellows

Keith Ameyaw headshot.

Keith Ameyaw

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: keith.ameyaw@nih.gov
Abby Kim headshot.

Abby Kim

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: yehyun.kim@nih.gov
Celia Martinez-Aceves headshot.

Celia Martinez-Aceves

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: celia.martinez-aceves@nih.gov
John Prevedel headshot.

John Prevedel

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: john.prevedel@nih.gov

Weinstein Lab Alumni

(with posts after Weinstein Lab)

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

1997 – 2002 Beth Roman  – Assoc. Professor, U. Pittsburgh
1998 – 2002 Nathan Lawson – Assoc. Professor, U. Massachusetts
1999 – 2001 Andreas Vogel - Regulatory Affairs Director, Laboratoires CTRS & Majorelle, France
2001 – 2006 Makoto Kamei - Res. Officer, SA Health and Med. Res. Inst., Adelaide, AU
2001 – 2005 Jesus Torres-Vazquez - Assoc. Professor, Skirball Institute, NYU, NY
2002 – 2003 Moon-Kyoung Bae – Assoc. Professor, Pusan National University, Korea 
2003 – 2006 Kameha Kidd - Policy Analyst, NCRR, NIH, Bethesda, MD
2004 – 2005 Kenna Shaw - Executive Director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy,MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
2004 – 2009 Karina Yaniv – Assoc. Professor, Weizmann Inst., Israel
2006 – 2009 Cathy McKinney - Research Specialist, Stowers Institute, Kansas City, MO
2006 – 2012 Young-Ryun Cha – Sr. Scientist & Team Leader, Cellivery Therapeutics, Inc., Seoul, Korea
2006 – 2012 Matthew Swift – Zebrafish Core Director, Georgetown U., Washington, DC
2007 – 2012 Misato Fujita – Ass’t. Professor, Kanagawa University, Kanagawa, Japan
2008 – 2010 Mariana Melani – Assoc. Investigator, Leloir Foundation. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 – 2012 Weijun Pan – Assoc. Prof., Shanghai Inst. for Biological Sciences, China
2010 – 2013 Katherine Monzo – Lecturer, University of Maryland
2010 – 2015 Timothy Mulligan – Research Fellow, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2010 – 2015 Jianxin Yu  –Technical Sales Executive, WuXi AppTec, Princeton, NJ
2009 – 2016 Matthew Butler – Sr. Scientist, SeraCare Life Sciences, Gaithersburg, MD
2010 – 2016 Shlomo Krispin – Sr. Project Manager, Israeli Biotechnological Research Ltd, Yavneh, Hamerkaz, Israel
2011 – 2018 Amber Stratman  – Ass’t. Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2013 – 2019 Mayumi Miller – Primary Investigator, Food and Drug Administration
2014 – 2020 Hyun Min Jung  – Ass’t. Professor, U. Illinois,  Chicago, IL
2016 – 2022 Scott Paulissen – Research Specialist, NICHD, Bethesda, MD
2016 – 2022 Laura Pillay – Assistant Professor, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
2015 – 2022 Marina Venero Galanternik – Assistant Professor, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellows

2001 – 2003 Joshua Mugford - Graduate Student, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002 – 2003 Jason Berk - Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003 – 2004  Mark McElwain - Graduate Student, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2012 – 2013 Brett Athans – Medical Student, U. Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
2012 – 2013 Eric Sause – Nutritional Data Analyst, Food and Drug Administration
2013 – 2014 Sofia Pezoa - Graduate Student, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
2013 – 2015 Kristin Johnson - Graduate Student, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2014 – 2016 Olivia Farrelly - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2014 – 2016 Chase Melick - Graduate Student, University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas TX
2015 – 2017 Margaret Burns - Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2016 – 2018 Kelly Tomins - Graduate Student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2016 – 2018 Natalie Aloi - Graduate Student, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2016 – 2018 Ciara Hu - Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2017 – 2019 Ryan Gober – Graduate Student, University of Miami, Miami, WA
2018 – 2020 Alexandra Fister - Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2018 – 2020 Avery Swearer - Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2018 – 2020 Joseph Yano  - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019 – 2020 Keith Barnes  - Graduate Student, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2019 – 2021 Bakary Samasa - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2020 – 2022 Megan Ezeude – Medical Student, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2020 – 2022 Allison Goldstein – Graduate Student, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2020 – 2022 Jordyn Greenbaum – Medical Student, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL

Former Lab Staff

2008 – 2021 Andrew Davis, Graduate Student, Columbia University, NY, NY
2019 – 2021 Olivia Carpinello, CCRM Fertility Clinic, Vienna, VA
2006 – 2022 Aniket Gore, Nanostring Technologies, Seattle, WA

 

Lab Group Photos

2022

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A virtual lab meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, January 14, 2022. 1st row: Daniel Castranova, Brant Weinstein, Aniket Gore, Leah Greenspan. 2nd row: Amy Parkhurst, Madeleine Kenton, Jong Park, Laura Pillay. 3rd row: Van Pham, Scott Paulissen, Miranda Marvel, Kiyohito Taimatsu. 4th row: Jordyn Greenbaum, Keith Ameyaw, Maziar Rahmani, Megan Ezeude. 5th row: Joshua Combs, Marina Venero Galanternik, Gennady Margolin, Allison Goldstein.

2020

Weinstein Lab group photo - virtual meeting, March 27, 2020A virtual lab meeting during the COVID-19 pandemic, March 27, 2020. 1st row: Hyun Min Jung, Brant Weinstein, Scott Paulissen, Joseph Yano, Miranda Marvel. 2nd row: Aniket Gore, Andrew Davis, Zahra Sarrafan, Keith Barnes, Marina Venero Galanternik. 3rd row: Amy Parkhurst, Bakary Samasa, Leah Greenspan, Alexandra Fister, Kiyohito Taimatsu. 4th row: Van Pham, Laura Pillay, Avery Swearer, Maziar Rahmani, Daniel Castranova. 5th row: Olivia Carpinello, Gennady Margolin.

2019

Weinstein Lab group photo - April 3, 2019

2017

Weinstein lab staff.

2016

Weinstein lab staff in 2016.

2014

Weinstein lab staff in 2014.

2013

Weinstein lab staff in 2013.

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