Our Team


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Lauren Orefice, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator

orefice@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Lauren received her Ph.D. from Georgetown University in the lab of Dr. Baoji Xu. She then performed her postdoctoral studies in Dr. David Ginty’s lab at Harvard Medical School. The Orefice lab opened in early 2019 at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Lauren is the winner of the 2018 Regeneron Prize for Creative Innovation and the 2019 Eppendorf & Science Prize for Neurobiology. She is also a K99/R00 recipient (NINDS), a Klingenstein-Simons Fellow, a Smith Family Biomedical Research awardee, a Searle Scholar and a Pew Biomedical Research Scholar. Lauren is a 2021 New York Stem Cell Foundation Robertson Neuroscience Investigator and a 2022 McKnight Scholar.


Postdoctoral Fellows

Clare Howard, M.D. Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Neonatology Fellow at BCH

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Charline Kambrun, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Young Woo Noh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

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Yao Zhou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow


Graduate Students

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Lyuba Bolkhovitinov
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program

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Kelsey Clausing
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

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Yuki Dai
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

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Herriet Hsieh
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

Zach McKenzie
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program

Karen San Agustin
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Program in Neuroscience

Emily Temple
Thesis Graduate Student
Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program


Staff

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McKenzie Leahy
Lab Manager

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James Donahue
Research Assistant

Diane Sacchetti
Administrative Assistant


Undergraduate Students

Claire Crichfield
Emmanuel College

Kame Diba
Northeastern University

Anna DiBona
Emmanuel College

Sophia Fulton
Emmanuel College

Conner Hill
Harvard University

Cindy Phan
Harvard University

Sydney Pollock
Northeastern University

Ana Paulina Serrano
Harvard University

Anuksha Wickramasinghe
Harvard University

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Interns

Pippa
Canine Intern


Alumni

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Lyndsey Mugford
Undergraduate Student
(2020-23)
Now: Rhodes Scholar
(U. of Cambridge)

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Aixin Yue
Research Assistant (2020-23)
Now: Ph.D. Student at Harvard University

Hillary Woodworth
Postdoc (2019-22)
Now: Psychiatry Resident at MGH

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Shawn Mozeika
Research Assistant (2019-21)
Now: Ph.D. Student at Rockefeller U.

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Jacqueline Mosko
Research Assistant (2019-20)
Now: Ph.D. Student at UCSD

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Elisa Panzeri
Undergraduate Student (2019)
Now: M.A. Student at University of Göttingen



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