Principal Investigator
- Our lab is part of the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology and the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University Medical Center. We are also members of the Columbia University Center for Motor Neuron Biology and Disease. I received my B.A. from Trinity College Dublin, my Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England and my postdoctoral research was carried out at the University of California at Berkeley. I currently serve as an academic editor of the journal PLoS One and as a member of the Faculty of 1000. Photo: Chris Taggart
Research Assistant
- I am involved in a number of joint projects with other members of the lab and I take care of lab organization.
Contact me by ordersATmccabelab.org or Tel. + 1.212.305.3508
Postdoctoral Fellows
- I have generated new Drosophila models for the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). I have also developed improved tools for Drosophila transgenics and I am working on novel mutants that cause dramatic overgrowth of neuromuscular junction synapses.
- I am working on the molecular regulation of synaptic terminal branching and I am using Drosophila to understand the genetic relationship between molecules implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Graduate Student
- My research is focused on the role of neurotransmission in the regulation of synaptic development and on understanding how BMP signaling is regulated at the neuromuscular synapses.
Undergraduate Students
- Interested Undergrads should contact Brian
Lab News
Alumni
- Postdoctoral Fellows[+]
Wendy Imlach - currently at the Queensland Brain Institute, Australia.
Zeina Chamoun - currently at INSERM in Paris, France
Anindya Sen - currently at Harvard University, Boston
Gabriel Gasque - currently at Rockefeller University, New York. - Graduate Students[+]
Jonathan Brent, MD/PhD - currently at Columbia Medical School
Erin Savner, MD/PhD - currently at Columbia Medical School
Ellen Penney, MD/PhD - currently at Harvard Medical School
Kristen Werner, PhD - currently postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University
Kaben Schwartz, MA in Biotechnology - currently at ImClone systems
Pao-Shu Wu, MA in Biotechnology - currently in Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taiwan - Research Assistants[+]
Trudy Morrison - currently in Medical School in Jamaica
Valentina Ramirez - currently in Medical School in South Africa
Rini Ghosh - Undergraduate Students[+]Mitchell Hayes
Erin Tesny
Mark Grbic
Brian Lim
Judith Holtzman
Anurag Saraf
Christian Hinderer
Matthew Kraushar
David Mao
Christian Hinderer
Nathaniel Montag
Rahul Jain
Matthew Kraushar
Yang Liu
Nnamdi Offer
Sara Brittingham





