Personnel
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A Spring lab photo on the NIH grounds, March 22, 2024. Upper Row, from left: Van Pham, Isabelle Cisneros, Brant Weinstein. Lower Row, from left: Yehyun (Abby) Kim, John Prevedel, Miranda Marvel, Jean Sebastian Prosper Santiago, Celia Martinez-Aceves, Charles (Jackson) White, Leah Greenspan, Aurora Kraus, Kathryn Sloane, Kanako Inoue, Jong Park, Kiyohito Taimatsu, Daniel Castranova, Jian Ming (Jimmy) Khor.
Lab Staff
Brant M. Weinstein
Senior Investigator
Email: weinsteb@mail.nih.gov
Van N. Pham
Lab Manager
Email: phamVa@mail.nih.gov
Daniel Castranova
Aquatic Research Specialist
Email: castrand@mail.nih.gov
Madeleine Kenton
Aquatic Research Specialist
Email: madeleine.kenton@nih.gov
Miranda Marvel
Staff Scientist
Email: miranda.marvel@nih.gov
Postdoctoral Fellows
Leah Greenspan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: leah.greenspan@nih.gov
Kanako Inoue
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: kanako.inoue@nih.gov
Jimmy Khor
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jianming.khor@nih.gov
Aurora Kraus
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: aurora.kraus@nih.gov
Jong Park
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jong.park@nih.gov
Kiyohito Taimatsu
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: kiyohito.taimatsu@nih.gov
Vishakha Vishwakarma
Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: vishakha.vishwakarma@nih.gov
Graduate Students
Megan Detels
Johns Hopkins University Graduate Partnership Program Student
Email: megan.detels@nih.gov
Jackson White
OxCam Graduate Student (Currently at Oxford)
Email: charles.white3@nih.gov
Postbaccalaureate Fellows
Isabella Cisneros
Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: isabella.cisneros@nih.gov
Justin Gutkowski
Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: justin.gutkowski@nih.gov
Addison Parker
Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: addison.parker@nih.gov
Jean Prosper Santiago
Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: jean.prospersantiago@nih.gov
Zoe Zwick
Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: zoe.zwick@nih.gov
Weinstein Lab Alumni
(with posts after Weinstein Lab)
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
| 1997 – 2002 | Beth Roman – Assoc. Professor, U. Pittsburgh |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
| 2021 – 2023 | Keith Ameyaw – MD/PhD Student, Albert Einstein Medical College, New York, NY |
| 2022 – 2024 | Yehyun (Abby) Kim – MD/PhD Student, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD |
| 2022 – 2024 | Celia Martinez-Aceves – MD Student |
| 2022 – 2024 | John Prevedel – Graduate Student, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT |
Former Lab Staff
| 2008 – 2021 | Andrew Davis, Graduate Student, Columbia University, NY, NY |
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| 2019 – 2021 | Olivia Carpinello, CCRM Fertility Clinic, Vienna, VA |
| 2006 – 2022 | Aniket Gore, Nanostring Technologies, Seattle, WA |
Lab Group Photos
2023
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.
2022
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
A 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.
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