Lab Team

Primus Inter Pares (PI)

Headshot of the labratory's principle investigator, Mirna Mihvilovic Skanata
Mirna Mihovilović Škanata
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Physics, Brown University

CV

Closed-loop 2P Tracking Microscopy

Seongjin Park
Research Professor
PhD. Physics,
Urbana-Champaign
2021 - present

Salome Jin
Graduate Student
Physics
2025 - present

Behavioral Variability

Silverio Johnson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D. Physics
Brown University
2025 - present
Yiming Xu
Graduate Student
Physics
2021 – present
Suved Ganduri
Researcher
MS Computer Science
Syracuse University
2024 - present

Flavors

Derick Ramos
Graduate Student
Physics
2023 - present
Salome Jin
Graduate Student
Physics
2025 - present


Memory and Learning

Sophie DeCristofaro
Undergraduate Student
Physics
2025-present
Vaanya Churiwalla
Undergraduate Student
Biology
2026-present
Mechanosensation
Dev Goonawardhana
Graduate Student
Physics
2024-present
Siyan Wu
Undergraduate Student
Physics
2026-present

Alumni

Ren Monegro
B.S. Biology, 2026


Amarachi Amaka Nwokike
B.S. Health Sciences, 2026


Ethel Kabore
B.S. Biology and Chemistry, 2026
Now: M.S.Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins

Katherine Monroe
B.S. Bioengineering, 2025
Now: Project Manager, Epic Healthcare
Riley Marie Parikh
B.S. Psychology & Neuroscience, 2025
Emma Snook
B.S. Biology, 2025
Now: Research Tech at MGH
Daniella Sarfo
B.S. Economics, 2025
Now: M.S. Biotechnology, Rutgers
Liliana Germain
B.S. Neuroscience and Psychology, 2025
Now:M.S.Biotechnology at Brown