#  People (Current members) 

 



##  Principal Investigator 

 



  [### Naoshige Uchida

 ](/people/nao-uchida) <uchida@mcb.harvard.edu>Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Director of Undergraduate Studies in Neuroscience

 

 

 Naoshige Uchida is Jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University, Japan, where he worked on the molecular mechanism of synaptic adhesions in Masatoshi Takeichi’s laboratory. He... 

 

 

      ![u](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Uchida.png?itok=rVl33QBV) 

 

 

 

   [### Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida

 ](/people/mitsuko-uchida) <mitsuko@mcb.harvard.edu>Research Fellow in the Center for Brain Science

 

 

 Mitsuko Watabe-Uchida is a Research Fellow at the Center for Brain Science in Harvard University. She been fascinated by animals since her childhood, and has a strong background in animal watching, awake electrophysiology, anatomy, and molecular and... 

 

 

      ![mitsuko](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/2012-08-13_16.31.40.jpg?itok=L-2U-VTq) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  Postdoctral Fellow 

 



  [### Mark Burrell

 ](/people/mark-burrell) 

      ![Mark](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/img_0521.jpg?itok=vT6o82IK) 

 

 

 

   [### Malcolm Campbell

 ](/people/malcolm-campbell) 

      ![m](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/malcolm_headshot_0.jpg?itok=kN7-vdF-) 

 

 

 

   [### Daniel F. Cardozo Pinto

 ](/people/daniel-f-cardozo-pinto) 

      ![CardozoPinto](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/danielcardozopinto_2024_square_1.jpg?itok=7Y6Akgxl) 

 

 

 

   [### Eshaan Iyer

 ](/people/eshaan-iyer) 

      ![iyer](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/eshaan-iyer_8791_cr-300x300.jpg?itok=Om7x8MUa) 

 

 

 

   [### Lyle Kingsbury

 ](/people/lyle-kingsbury) 

      ![lyle](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/lyle_kingsbury_profile_rh_4223_0.jpg?itok=UfLvuT9g) 

 

 

 

   [### Jaeeon Lee

 ](/people/jaeeon-lee) 

      ![jaeeon lee](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/jaeeon-lee_9462_cr-300x300.jpg?itok=lAwfUgKh) 

 

 

 

   [### Sara Matias

 ](/people/sara-matias-0) 

      ![sara](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/dsc_4683.jpeg?itok=bqFxQVFf) 

 

 

 

   [### Kanako Otomo

 ](/people/kanako-otomo) 

      ![Kanako Otomo](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-05/kanako_otomo_edit_0.jpg?itok=jXnhTdPu) 

 

 

 

   [### Hannah L Phillips

 ](/people/hannah-l-phillips) 

      ![Hannah Phillips](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/hannah.jpg?itok=yqxIIQKm) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  Graduate Student 

 



  [### Zhiqin (Carol) Chen

 ](/people/zhiqin-carol-chen) 

      ![c](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/carol.jpg?itok=Pj18zB30) 

 

 

 

   [### Nico Herndon

 ](/people/nico-herndon) 

      ![nico](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/nico-herndon_5507_cr-300x300.jpg?itok=3U2IcacV) 

 

 

 

   [### Yongsoo (Simon) Ra

 ](/people/yongsoo-simon-ra) 

      ![s](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/NRSf5hiHRtomQCOZ-5-scaled-aspect-ratio-1-1-1-310x310-c-default.jpg?itok=tZ5nYM-e) 

 

 

 

   [### Kaiwen Shi

 ](/people/kaiwen-shi) 

      ![k](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Unknown.jpeg?itok=dM0ejBcF) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  Undergraduate Student 

 



  [### Vanessa Frelih

 ](/people/vanessa-frelih) 

      ![Vanessa_Frelih](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/uchidalab/files/screenshot_2024-12-12_at_8.26.09_pm.png?itok=sHO8n3E2) 

 

 

 

   [### Olivia Lee

 ](/people/olivia-lee) 

      ![Olivia](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-03/Olivia%20Lee.JPG?h=dc9fde97&itok=lP7tf47n) 

 

 

 

   [### Isa Ha'ani Long

 ](/people/isa-haani-long) 

      ![i](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/IMG_5322_0.jpeg?h=544e7c14&itok=eQrVOcS-) 

 

 

 

   [### Sara Merhi

 ](/people/sara-merhi) 

      ![Merhi](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Sara%20Merhi.jpeg?h=066ba17a&itok=Pm4VDfN2) 

 

 

 

   [### Grace Zhang

 ](/people/grace-zhang) 

      ![GZ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/GZ_headshot2.jpg?h=d54b277a&itok=dSrpeNq0) 

 

 

 

   [### Anna Zhou

 ](/people/anna-zhou) 

      ![anna](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/Anna%20Zhou.jpeg?h=466d4353&itok=ibYDHtan) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

##  Staff 

 



  [### Sean Kagugube

 ](/people/sean-kagugube)Lab Administrator

 

 

 

      ![k](/sites/g/files/omnuum8331/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/Kagugube.jpeg?h=27dd01fe&itok=on1_8fA_) 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

##  Alumni 

 



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