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Sathya Puthanveettil, PhD

Principal Investigator

Dr. Puthanveettil graduated from Washington State University where he studied calcium calmodulin dependent protein kinases in the laboratory of Dr. B. W. Poovaiah. He then joined Dr. Eric Kandel’s laboratory at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, for his post-doctoral research on learning and memory storage.

Bindu Raveendra, PhD

Senior Research Associate
(2014 – present)

University of Kerala

Dr. Raveendra is currently exploring the role of long noncoding RNAs in learning and memory.

Jenna Wingfield, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate
(2020 – present)

University of Georgia

Jenna is studying the role of mitotic kinesins in post-mitotic neurons.

Kaushik Chanda, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate
(2021 – present)

Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata

Kaushik is studying the roles of circular RNAs in memory consolidation.

Yibo Zhao

Graduate Student

Emory University

Yibo is an incoming graduate student interested in transcriptional regulation during associative and non-associative learning.

Kerriann Badal, MS

Graduate Student (external)
(2015 – present)

Kerriann is currently a PhD Student in the Integrated Biology program of Department of Biological Sciences of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University. She studying axonal transport and memory storage using sea slug Aplysia and mouse as models.