Neumaier Lab-Alumni

Post-doctoral fellows


Richard Newitt (1995-1996) Scientist, Koronis Pharmaceuticals

Dan Root (1997-2000) Dermatologist, Seattle

Karl Kaiyala (2001-2003) Research Associate Professor, UW School of Dentistry

Blair Hoplight (2002-2005) Assistant Professor, New York Institute of Technology

Michael Clark (1998-2005) Assistant Professor, UW Department of Psychiatry

Ellen Mitchell (2003-2007) Staff Neuroscientist, Nestle Institute, Switzerland

Susan Ferguson (2004-2009) Professor, Seattle Children’s Research Institute and UW Department of Psychiatry

Amy Furay (2006-2011) Medical Science Liason, TESARO Inc.

Sunila Nair (2009-2011) Program Officer, NIDA

Brett Dufour (2018) Postdoc, University of California, Davis

Atom Lesiak (2013-2019) Instructor, UW Department of Genomics

Jesse Kumar (2018-2020) Mood Disorders fellow, UCLA

Rapheal Williams (2022-2023) Postdoc, University of Washington 

Pre-doctoral fellows


Sheri Hiroi (2004-2008) Assistant Research Professor, Arizona State University, Department of Psychology

Ross McDevitt (2003-2009) Postdoctoral fellow, NIDA, NIH (Bonci lab)

Catherine Hagan (2005-2010) Technical Information Scientist, The Jackson Laboratory

Daniel Eskenazi (2007-2011) Levy fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University

Yusha “Katie” Liu (2010-2015) Resident, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Washington

Matt Brodsky (2011-2016) Postdoctoral fellow, Seattle Childrens Research Institute

Alec Gibson (2014-2020) MSTP, University of Washington

Marjorie Levinstein (2016-2020) Postdoctoral fellow, NIDA

Phillip Silva (2016-2023), University of Washington

Laboratory Technicians


Bill Brennan

Nolan Sandygren

Hannah DeMeritt

Nathalie Cohenca

Jonathan Browne

Ashlee Evans

Ruby Marx


Laboratory Managers


Tim Sexton