Steve McCarroll
Dorothy and Milton Flier Professor of Biomedical Science and Genetics
Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School
Director of Genomic Neurobiology
Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
<mccarroll at genetics.med.harvard.edu>
Steve was a Ph.D. student in Cori Bargmann’s lab (genetics and neuroscience in C. elegans) at U.C. San Francisco, then a postdoc in David Altshuler’s lab (human genetics and genomics) at MGH and the Broad Institute.
Administrative contact
Michelle Lee <michelle_lee at hms.harvard.edu>
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Milena Andzelm
Postdoctoral Fellow
milena.andzelm@childrens.harvard.edu
Neuroinflammation, human genetic variation
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Steven Burger
Computational Scientist II
sburger@broadinstitute.org
Expression regulation in human brain
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Heather de Rivera
Scientific Staff
heather_derivera@hms.harvard.edu
Human brain development, cell biology
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Ricardo del Rosario
Sr. Computational Biologist
rcdelros@broadinstitute.org
Marmoset genome assembly
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Geneva Fischer
Northeastern University Co-op student
fischer.ge@northeastern.edu
Somatic mosaicism in neurodegeneration
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Marta Florio
Postdoctoral Fellow
marta_florio@hms.harvard.edu
Human brain development and evolution
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Haley Fritch
Computational Scientist I
fritch@broadinstitute.org
Computational neuroscience
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Giulio Genovese
Sr. Computational Biologist
giulio@broadinstitute.org
Linkage models for human genetics
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Sherif Gerges
Graduate Student
sherif_gerges@g.harvard.edu
Single-cell genomics of psychiatric disorders
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Melissa Goldman
Data Analytics Manager
melissa_goldman@hms.harvard.edu
Single-cell data analysis
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Bob Handsaker
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Genome structural variation
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Marina Hogan
Project Manager
mhogan@broadinstitute.org
Neurobiology
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Kiku Ichihara
Director
kichihar@broadinstitute.org
Research Strategy & Operations
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Nolan Kamitaki
Graduate Student
nkamitaki@gmail.com
Math, genomics, and biology
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Seva Kashin
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
skashin@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell data analysis
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Yong Hoon Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
yhkim@bwh.harvard.edu
Functional genomics and
chromatin architecture
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Won-Seok Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
wlee@broadinstitute.org
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
and somatic mosaicism
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Emi Ling
Postdoctoral Fellow
eling@broadinstitute.org
Human genetic variation,
neuronal biology
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Tara McDonald
Scientific Staff
tara_mcdonald@hms.harvard.edu
Mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease
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Curtis Mello
Lab Manager
mello@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Lab manager things
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James Nemesh
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
nemesh@broadinstitute.org
Data Janitor
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Nicole Rockweiler
Postdoctoral Fellow
nrockwei@broadinstitute.org
Mosaicism
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Amith Saligrama
High School Student
asaligra@broadinstitute.org
Somatic mosaicism
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Aswin Sekar
Postdoctoral Fellow
aswin@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Single-cell blood mosaicism
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Khalid Shakir
Principal Software Engineer
kshakir@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell computational analysis
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Liv Spina
Scientific Staff
Liv_Spina@hms.harvard.edu
Neural mechanisms of mental illnesses
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Avin Veerakumar
Postdoctoral Fellow
aveerakumar@bwh.harvard.edu
Neural mechanisms of psychiatric disorders
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Alec Wysoker
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
alecw@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell computational analysis
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Yang Xu
Machine Learning Scientist
yxu@broadinstitute.org
Deep learning in single-cell analysis
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Sophia Yan
High School Student
yansophi@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell data analysis
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Olivia Yoo
Computational Associate
yooolivi@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell data analysis
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Tracy Yuan
Student Staff
tyuan@college.harvard.edu
Alumni
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Daniel Bachman
Single-cell mechanisms of neurodegeneration
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Matthew Baum
Medical Student, Harvard Med
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Elizabeth Bien
Grad Student at Dartmouth
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Linda Boettger
Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University
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Laura Bortolin
Mercy BioAnalytics
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Laveda Chan
Student, Penn Dental Medicine
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Edward Gebara
Research Assistant, UNC
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Sulagna Ghosh
Founder, Joint Family
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Rhea Kohli
Scientific Staff
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Tina (Yutian) Li
High School Student
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Alyssa Lutservitz
Scientific Staff
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Dan Meyer
Grad student, Columbia
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Chris Mullally
MD/PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio
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Thomas Mullen
Lab Director and Senior Analyst at the Broad Institute
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Alexander Munoz
Scientific Staff
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Noah Pettinari
Computational Associate, Broad
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Nora Reed
MD/PhD applicant
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Harsha Sen
Grad student, Princeton
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Rebecca Shafee
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Parth Shah
Masters student, Northeastern University
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Christy Smith
Medical school student at NYU
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Karina Smolyar
Graduate student at MIT Bio
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Bryan Sukidi
High School Student
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Marissa Sumathipala
MPhil student, University of Cambridge
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Steven Tan
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins
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Katherine Tooley
Ph.D. Student in Immunology, Harvard Medical School
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Christina Usher
Writer for the Multiple Myeloma Center
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Vanessa Van Doren
Medical Student, Case Western
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Cassandra Vondrak
Graduate Student, MIT
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Chris Whelan
Computational Biologist, Broad Institute
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