Members

lab members

Principal Investigator

Brian D. McCabe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor[+]
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

Tim Crawley
B.S., Loyola University[+]
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

Ji-Wu Wang
Ph.D., Shanghai Institute for Biological Sciences[+]
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.

Wei Jiao
Ph.D., Karolinska Institutet[+]
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.

Carolina Cela,
Ph.D., CSIC - Universitat de Barcelona[+]
I am working on the role of RNA processing in synapse development and how defects in mRNA splicing can produce motor neuron disease in particular SMA. I am also developing new techniques to label and manipulate neuronal circuits.

Graduate Student

Benjamin Choi,
B.S., Seoul National University[+]
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.

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