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Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section – Staff

Current lab members

Satoshi Ikemoto, Ph.D.
Satoshi Ikemoto, Ph.D.

Satoshi Ikemoto, Ph.D.

Chief, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
Satoshi.Ikemoto@nih.gov

Zengyou Ye, Ph.D.
Zengyou Ye, Ph.D.

Zengyou Ye, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
zengyou.ye@nih.gov

Yosuke Arima, Ph.D.
Yosuke Arima, Ph.D.

Yosuke Arima, Ph.D.

Visiting Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
yosuke.arima@nih.gov

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Julia Mattioni

Predoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
julia.mattioni3@nih.gov

Beyoncé Getachew
Beyoncé Getachew

Beyoncé Getachew

Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
beyonce.getachew@nih.gov

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Sarah Johnson

Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
sarah.johnson2@nih.gov

Special Volunteers

Post-doc Alumni

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Abraham Zangen, PhD (09/1999 – 09/2003)

left for Weismann Institute of Science, Israel

Seung-Chan Lee, Ph.D.
Seung-Chan Lee, Ph.D.

Seung-Chan Lee, Ph.D.

Former Staff Research Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
seung-chan.lee@nih.gov

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Mei Qin, MD, PhD (05/2004 – 09/2005)

left for NIMH

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Zhonghua Liu, PhD (09/2004 – 08/2006)

left for NIMH

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Rick Shin, PhD (11/2005 – 02/2009)

left for Astellas Research Institute of America

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Junran Cao, PhD (11/2006 – 10/2008)

left for University of Virginia

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Thomas C. Jhou, PhD (09/2008 – 07/2010)

left for Medical University of South Carolina

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Mingliang Tang, PhD (09/2009 – 06/2010)

left for Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

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Anton Ilango, PhD (06/2011 – 07/2014)

left for Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany

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Dong Wang, PhD (07/2011 – 08/2017)

left for Drexel University

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Coleman Calva, Ph.D.

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
cole.calva@nih.gov

Marc Fakhoury, Ph.D.
Marc Fakhoury, Ph.D.

Marc Fakhoury, Ph.D. (11/2018 – 06/2019)

Left for American University of Beirut

Celine Nicolas, Ph.D.
Celine Nicolas, Ph.D.

Céline Nicolas, Ph.D. (01/2016 – 04/2019)

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section

Ahmed Badawi, Ph.D.
Ahmed Badawi, Ph.D.

Ahmed Badawi, Ph.D. (08/2018 – 11/2019)

Former Postdoctoral Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section

Post-bac Alumni

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Brian Witkin (02/2001 – 05/2003)

left for Tulane University

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Kathleen Donahue (07/2003 – 06/2004)

left for Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine

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Reagan Wetherill (07/2003 – 05/2004)

left University of Texas-Austin

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David Horton (06/2004 – 05/2005)

left for University of Kentucky

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Lynnsay Marsan (01/2008 – 12/2008)

left for Pennsylvania State University

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Ian Macumber (07/2004 – 06/2005)

left for University of Massachusetts

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Shengping Xu (06/2008 – 05/2011)

left for George Washington University

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Sierra Webb (07/2008 – 06/2010)

left for University of California at Santa Barbara

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Fiori Vollrath-Smith (06/2009 – 05/2011)

left University of Maryland

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Kristine Keller (09/2010 – 08/2012)

left for University of Maryland

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Carl Broker (06/2012 – 05/2014)

left for University of Rochester

Andrew Kesner
Andrew Kesner

Andrew Kesner (05/2012 – 05/2014)

left for the Johns Hopkins-NIH Graduate Partnership Program

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Aaron Tan (06/2014 – 05/2016)

left for Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Aleksandr Talishinsky (10/2014 – 06/2016)

left for Weill Cornell Medical College

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Anne Pierce (10/2015 – 06/2017)

left for University of Colorado

Sue Junn
Sue Junn

Sue Junn (06/2018-05/201)

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section

Chrisian Potter
Chrisian Potter

Christian Potter

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section

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John Gibbons

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section

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Miranda Targum

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
miranda.targum@nih.gov

Kelsey Shimoda
Kelsey Shimoda

Kelsey Shimoda

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
kelsey.shimoda@nih.gov

Ana Daniela Libertad Armenta Vega
Ana Daniela Libertad Armenta Vega

Ana Daniela Libertad Armenta Vega, B.S.

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
ana.armentavega@nih.gov

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Jensine Coudrite

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
jensine.coudrite@nih.gov

orge Miguel Mendoza, BS.
orge Miguel Mendoza, BS.

Jorge Mendoza, B.S.

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellow, Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section
jorge.mendoza@nih.gov

Graduate Student Alumni

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Chen Yang (01/2014 – 03/2015)

left for Department of Neurosurgery, Tangdu hospital and lecturer at The Fourth Military Medical University, China

Andrew Kesner
Andrew Kesner

Andrew Kesner (05/2015 – 12/2018)

left for NIAAA

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