Current Lab Members
PAUL GREER
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Paul is a Massachusetts lifer, never having lived outside of a two-mile radius from the hospital in which he was born. Despite this embarrassingly parochial upbringing, Paul has managed to experience a broad scientific training from a series of mentors to whom he remains incredibly grateful. For his doctoral work, under Mike Greenberg’s mentorship, he characterized mechanisms of synapse development and function relevant to human neurological disorders. Upon graduating from Mike’s lab, he joined Bob Datta’s lab, and ever since he has been investigating the mechanisms by which mammals respond appropriately to exteroceptive and interoceptive chemical cues.
SUNG JIN PARK
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
Sung Jin, a postdoctoral fellow, is investigating novel mechanisms by which mammals sense behaviorally relevant olfactory stimuli.
THUYVAN LUU
GRADUATE STUDENT
Thuyvan is a doctoral student whose research focuses on understanding how MS4As affect myeloid cell function and Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis.
I-HAO WANG
GRADUATE STUDENT
I-Hao is a graduate student interested in the single-cell transcriptome diversity of olfactory sensory neurons and the mechanisms of olfactory circuit wiring.
HAO-CHING JIANG
GRADUATE STUDENT
Hao-Ching is a graduate student interested in how animals interpret sensory information to generate appropriate behaviors. She is currently studying the function of MS4A1(CD20) in the mouse olfactory epithelium.
KATHERINE (KIT) MOCARSKI
GRADUATE STUDENT
Kit is a joint doctoral student with Dr. Bob Brown. She is working on new approaches for understanding ALS.
ABIGAIL (ABBI) HILLER (she/they)
MD-PHD STUDENT
Abbi is an MD/PhD student working on identifying and defining a role for MS4As in ALS. Broadly, she is interested in understanding the neural circuitry and molecular biology underlying both complex behaviors and neuropathological states including neurodegenerative disease.
JASON FREEDMAN
MD-PHD STUDENT
As an MD-PhD student, Jason hopes to explore how the cellular and molecular building blocks of the nervous system give rise to complex phenomena, from basic behavior to neuropathology. His primary focus is on the role of MS4A receptors in the pathogenesis and treatment of neurodegenerative disease.