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Principal investigator
Tim Mosca, Ph.D.

B.S., Yale '99-'03
M.S., Yale, '99-'03
Ph.D., Harvard '03-'09
Postdoc, Stanford '10-16

Stanford University Postdoctoral Award ('12)
K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award ('13-'19)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship ('18-'20)

Our fearless leader. He makes sure we have direction, money, baked goods, and mentorship. He gets really excited about science, running, education, and Twitter. But mostly about science.

Postdoctoral fellow
Kristen Davis, Ph.D.

Kristen is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the lab. She received her B.S. in Biology and Psychology from Longwood University and earned a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Virginia Commonwealth University, where she studied appetite control circuits in C. elegans. She did her first postdoc with Dr. David Raizen at the University of Pennsylvania, studying sleep and injury in C. elegans. She brings considerable neuroscience and genetics experience to the Mosca Lab to study the intricacies of synaptic regulation at the circuit level and the genetics of neurodivergence.

Graduate student
Benjamin Seitz, B.S., M.S.

To be established!

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We're always looking for talented, driven scientists to join us in the continuing fight to push back the frontiers of knowledge.

 
 
 
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Gritty

Let’s face it. We’re mildly obsessed with Gritty. And who wouldn’t be? He(?)/She(?)/It(?)/They(?) are amazing. They are immortal. They came in like a wrecking ball, and they made Philly love them. Then they made the world love them. We consider Gritty an unofficial lab member. Tim’s even got a sequined Gritty pillow in his office that was a Christmas gift from the lab. And it’s not even a little bit creepy.


Lab Alumni

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Michael Warkala

GGCB Rotation Student (2018)

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Weelic Chong

MD/PhD Rotation Student (2018)

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Megan Furch

Summer Student (2019)

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Lucas Restrepo

Lab Manager (2017-2019)

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Elizabeth Moese

Master’s Student (2019-2020)

Tabitha Rodriguez

GPN Rotation Student (2022)

Victoria Triglia

Master’s Student (2022-2023)

Dr. Alison DePew

Graduate Student (2018-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2024)

Jesse Humenik

Graduate Student (2020-2025)

Dr. Michael Parisi

Research Associate (2019-2026)

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Nicholas Pizzi

CBRM Rotation Student (2018)

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Layla Ghaffari

GPN Rotation Student (2018)

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Katie Helf

Summer Student (2019)

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Rachel Carpenter

Technician (2019)

Jonathan Baxter

CBRM Rotation Student (2021)

Dr. Juan Duhart

Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-2022)

Ardhika Aziz

Master’s Student (2023)

Gabriela Daszewska-Smith

GPN Rotation Student (2024)

Jordan Bauer

GPN Rotation Student (2025)

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Kendall Turner

Summer Student (2018)

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Gabrielle Spagnuolo

GPN Rotation Student (2019)

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Ben Greer

Summer Student (2019)

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Justin Gumas

BMP Rotation Student (2020)

Alana Williams

GPN Rotation Student (2021)

Dr. Steve Tymanskyj

Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2022)

Dr. Michael Aimino

Graduate Student (2018-2023)
Postdoctoral Fellow (2023-2024)

Olivia Reinert

Master’s Student (2024)

Drithi Patel

GGCB Rotation Student (2025)