Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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

Milena Andzelm
Postdoctoral Fellow
milena.andzelm@childrens.harvard.edu
Neuroinflammation, human genetic variation

Steven Burger
Computational Scientist II
sburger@broadinstitute.org
Expression regulation in human brain

Heather de Rivera
Scientific Staff
heather_derivera@hms.harvard.edu
Human brain development, cell biology

Ricardo del Rosario
Sr. Computational Biologist
rcdelros@broadinstitute.org
Marmoset genome assembly

Geneva Fischer
Northeastern University Co-op student
fischer.ge@northeastern.edu
Somatic mosaicism in neurodegeneration

Marta Florio
Postdoctoral Fellow
marta_florio@hms.harvard.edu
Human brain development and evolution

Haley Fritch
Computational Scientist I
fritch@broadinstitute.org
Computational neuroscience

Giulio Genovese
Sr. Computational Biologist
giulio@broadinstitute.org
Linkage models for human genetics

Sherif Gerges
Graduate Student
sherif_gerges@g.harvard.edu
Single-cell genomics of psychiatric disorders

Melissa Goldman
Data Analytics Manager
melissa_goldman@hms.harvard.edu
Single-cell data analysis

Bob Handsaker
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
Genome structural variation

Marina Hogan
Project Manager
mhogan@broadinstitute.org
Neurobiology

Kiku Ichihara
Director
kichihar@broadinstitute.org
Research Strategy & Operations

Nolan Kamitaki
Graduate Student
nkamitaki@gmail.com
Math, genomics, and biology

Seva Kashin
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
skashin@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell data analysis

Yong Hoon Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
yhkim@bwh.harvard.edu
Functional genomics and
chromatin architecture

Won-Seok Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
wlee@broadinstitute.org
Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration
and somatic mosaicism

Emi Ling
Postdoctoral Fellow
eling@broadinstitute.org
Human genetic variation,
neuronal biology

Tara McDonald
Scientific Staff
tara_mcdonald@hms.harvard.edu
Mechanisms of neurodegenerative disease

Curtis Mello
Lab Manager
mello@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Lab manager things

James Nemesh
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
nemesh@broadinstitute.org
Data Janitor

Nicole Rockweiler
Postdoctoral Fellow
nrockwei@broadinstitute.org
Mosaicism

Aswin Sekar
Postdoctoral Fellow
aswin@genetics.med.harvard.edu
Single-cell blood mosaicism

Khalid Shakir
Principal Software Engineer
kshakir@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell computational analysis

Liv Spina
Scientific Staff
Liv_Spina@hms.harvard.edu
Neural mechanisms of mental illnesses

Avin Veerakumar
Postdoctoral Fellow
aveerakumar@bwh.harvard.edu
Neural mechanisms of psychiatric disorders

Alec Wysoker
Sr. Principal Software Engineer
alecw@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell computational analysis

Yang Xu
Machine Learning Scientist
yxu@broadinstitute.org
Deep learning in single-cell analysis

Sophia Yan
High School Student
yansophi@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell data analysis

Olivia Yoo
Computational Associate
yooolivi@broadinstitute.org
Single-cell data analysis

Tracy Yuan
Student Staff
tyuan@college.harvard.edu
Alumni

Daniel Bachman
Single-cell mechanisms of neurodegeneration

Matthew Baum
Medical Student, Harvard Med


Elizabeth Bien
Grad Student at Dartmouth

Linda Boettger
Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford University

Laura Bortolin
Mercy BioAnalytics

Laveda Chan
Student, Penn Dental Medicine

Edward Gebara
Research Assistant, UNC

Sulagna Ghosh
Founder, Joint Family

Rhea Kohli
Scientific Staff



Tina (Yutian) Li
High School Student

Alyssa Lutservitz
Scientific Staff


Dan Meyer
Grad student, Columbia

Chris Mullally
MD/PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio

Thomas Mullen
Lab Director and Senior Analyst at the Broad Institute

Alexander Munoz
Scientific Staff

Noah Pettinari
Computational Associate, Broad

Nora Reed
MD/PhD applicant

Amith Saligrama
Undergraduate, Stanford University


Harsha Sen
Grad student, Princeton

Rebecca Shafee

Parth Shah
Masters student, Northeastern University

Christy Smith
Medical school student at NYU

Karina Smolyar
Graduate student at MIT Bio

Bryan Sukidi
High School Student

Marissa Sumathipala
MPhil student, University of Cambridge

Steven Tan
Undergraduate, Johns Hopkins

Katherine Tooley
Ph.D. Student in Immunology, Harvard Medical School

Christina Usher
Writer for the Multiple Myeloma Center

Vanessa Van Doren
Medical Student, Case Western

Cassandra Vondrak
Graduate Student, MIT

Chris Whelan
Computational Biologist, Broad Institute
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