team

principal investigator

  • Daniel Hochbaum

    Daniel Hochbaum, PhD

    a physicist-turned-neurobiologist, Daniel earned his PhD at Harvard with Adam Cohen, pioneering tools to map bioelectric phenomena from bacteria to brains, and then led their translation as chief scientific officer of Q-State (now Quiver) Biosciences. as a junior fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows, working with Bernardo Sabatini and Michael Greenberg, he integrated molecular, circuit, and quantitative behavioral approaches to show how sensory experience and hormonal state reshape neural circuitry.

    his lab now investigates how circulating signals like hormones coordinate brain and body, and why this coupling frays with aging and disease. by uncovering the rules of this body-brain communication, the lab aims to harness these potent, naturally evolved pathways as new strategies to protect brain health, preserve cognitive function, and treat neurological disease.

    honors

    2026
    MIND prize, Pershing Square Foundation
    2018
    career award at the scientific interface, Burroughs Wellcome Fund
    2017
    young investigator, Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
    2015
    elected to the Harvard Society of Fellows
    2014
    Harold M. Weintraub graduate student award

lab manager

  • Ayaka Kajimura

    Ayaka Kajimura, PhD

postdoctoral fellows

  • Elizabeth Balough

    Elizabeth Balough, MD/PhD

graduate students

  • Ralph Lawton

    Ralph Lawton

    MD/PhD student

  • Aurora Ferrell

    Aurora Ferrell

    PiN graduate student · co-advised by David Ginty

  • Genevieve Hulshof

    Genevieve Hulshof

    PiN rotation student

research staff

  • Madeline Dressel

    Madeline Dressel

    research associate

  • Ella Villeneuve

    Ella Villeneuve

    research associate

  • Alyssa Delorenzo

    Alyssa Delorenzo

    research technician

  • BK Kadriu

    BK Kadriu

    PiNBAC postbac

undergraduates

  • Avlinn Jaskowski

    Avlinn Jaskowski

    Northeastern co-op student

alumni
  • Isabella Uhniat

    Northeastern co-op student

  • Lucy Ponce

    Lucy Ponce

    undergraduate student intern

  • Kate Kim

    Kate Kim

    undergraduate student intern

  • Caroline Baynard

    Caroline Baynard

    undergraduate thesis student

    now: MD/PhD student, Rockefeller University (Tri-I)

  • Deshawna Escobedo

    Deshawna Escobedo

    undergraduate student

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