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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.
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

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

Miranda Marvel

Miranda Marvel

Staff Scientist
Email: miranda.marvel@nih.gov

Postdoctoral Fellows

Leah Greenspan

Leah Greenspan

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: leah.greenspan@nih.gov

Kanako Inoue

Kanako Inoue

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

Jimmy Khor

Jimmy Khor

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jianming.khor@nih.gov

Aurora Kraus

Aurora Kraus

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: aurora.kraus@nih.gov

Jong Park headshot.

Jong Park

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: jong.park@nih.gov

Kiyohito Taimatsu

Kiyohito Taimatsu

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

Vishakha Vishwakarma headshot.

Vishakha Vishwakarma

Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
Email: vishakha.vishwakarma@nih.gov

Graduate Students

Megan Detels headshot.

Megan Detels

Johns Hopkins University Graduate Partnership Program Student 
Email: megan.detels@nih.gov

Jackson White headshot.

Jackson White

OxCam Graduate Student (Currently at Oxford)
Email: charles.white3@nih.gov

Postbaccalaureate Fellows

Isabella Cisneros headshot.

Isabella Cisneros

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: isabella.cisneros@nih.gov

Justin Gutkowski headshot.

Justin Gutkowski

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow 
Email: justin.gutkowski@nih.gov

Addison Parker headshot.

Addison Parker

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow 
Email: addison.parker@nih.gov

Jean Prosper Santiago headshot.

Jean Prosper Santiago

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: jean.prospersantiago@nih.gov

Zoe Zwick headshot.

Zoe Zwick

Postbaccalaureate IRTA Fellow
Email: zoe.zwick@nih.gov

Weinstein Lab Alumni

(with posts after Weinstein Lab)

Former Postdoctoral Fellows

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

Former Postbaccalaureate Fellows

2001 – 2003Joshua Mugford - Graduate Student, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2002 – 2003Jason Berk - Medical Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2003 – 2004 Mark McElwain - Graduate Student, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2012 – 2013Brett Athans – Medical Student, U. Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
2012 – 2013Eric Sause – Nutritional Data Analyst, Food and Drug Administration
2013 – 2014Sofia Pezoa - Graduate Student, University of Colorado, Denver, CO
2013 – 2015Kristin Johnson - Graduate Student, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2014 – 2016Olivia Farrelly - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2014 – 2016Chase Melick - Graduate Student, University of Texas, Southwestern, Dallas TX
2015 – 2017Margaret Burns - Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2016 – 2018Kelly Tomins - Graduate Student, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2016 – 2018Natalie Aloi - Graduate Student, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2016 – 2018Ciara Hu - Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2017 – 2019Ryan Gober – Graduate Student, University of Miami, Miami, WA
2018 – 2020Alexandra Fister - Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2018 – 2020Avery Swearer - Graduate Student, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2018 – 2020Joseph Yano  - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2019 – 2020Keith Barnes  - Graduate Student, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2019 – 2021Bakary Samasa - Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2020 – 2022Megan Ezeude – Medical Student, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2020 – 2022Allison Goldstein – Graduate Student, Harvard University, Boston, MA
2020 – 2022Jordyn Greenbaum – Medical Student, Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL
2021 – 2023Keith Ameyaw – MD/PhD Student, Albert Einstein Medical College, New York, NY
2022 – 2024Yehyun (Abby) Kim – MD/PhD Student, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
2022 – 2024Celia Martinez-Aceves – MD Student
2022 – 2024John Prevedel – Graduate Student, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT

Former Lab Staff

2008 – 2021Andrew Davis, Graduate Student, Columbia University, NY, NY
2019 – 2021Olivia Carpinello, CCRM Fertility Clinic, Vienna, VA
2006 – 2022Aniket 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.

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

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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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