Team
Tatsuya Tsukahara (PI)
Tatsuya grew up in Japan. He received his B.S. in Biology and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biophysics and Biochemistry from the University of Tokyo. He was then recruited as a junior group leader in Dr. Hiroyuki Takeda’s laboratory at the University of Tokyo and led a research group for several years. During these years working on several biological systems whose goal is to faithfully execute the “blueprints”, his interests expanded to the highly adaptive system, the nervous system. After completing the Neurobiology course at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratories (MBL) in the summer of 2012, he joined Dr. Bob Datta’s laboratory at Harvard Medical School in the fall of 2014 and started neuroscience research. He started a laboratory at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute (LTRI) in September 2023 and is also an Assistant Professor at the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. He loves running, basketball, hiking, and cooking outside of the lab.
Kirti Mittal, Ph.D.
Lab Manager
Kirti received her PhD from the University of Delhi and post-doctoral training at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Ian Santoso
Undergraduate Student
Ian received his Honor’s Biology (Biomedical Science) BSc. Degree from York University. His interest lies in investigating the molecular alterations of peripheral sensory neurons in healthy and neurodevelopmental disease states.
Jade Juba
Undergraduate Student
Jade is a fourth-year undergraduate student at UofT (SG) specializing in Molecular Genetics and minoring in Immunology. She is interested in how neuroplasticity is mediated by epigenetic, post-transcriptional, and post-translational regulation of neural genes. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and reading about American History.
Name | Position | Year(s) | Moved on To |
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Tiffany Hui | Undergrad Student | Summer 2024 | UofT 4th year student |
Zeke Weng | Undergrad Student | Summer 2024 | UofT 3rd year student |