Lab Members

Mark Tanouye Personal Investigator
Email: tanouye@berkeley.edu
Iris Howlett Iris is a native of Tucson, Arizona. She did her undergrad at the University of Arizona in Molecular and Cellular Biology, where she worked in the lab of Dr. Mani Ramaswami studying the role of dFMR1 in synaptic plasticity. As a graduate student in the Tanouye lab she has been working on characterizing a novel seizure suppressor and identifying the bang-sensitive mutant jitterbug. Email: ich@berkeley.edu
Zeid Rusan Currently working on development of the Drosophila blood-brain
barrier and its role in seizure-susceptibility. Email: zeid@berkeley.edu
Arunesh Saras Arunesh received his PhD in Neuroscience from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, where he identified Histamine action on vertebrate GABA(A) receptors showing direct gating and potentiation of GABA response. At Harvard Medical School/MEEI as a postdoctoral fellow, he established TAP-tag technique for protein purification in Zebrafish. Later he worked on genetic analysis of neuromodulation in Drosophila in Prof. Robert Zucker lab(UC Berkeley) . Currently he is investigating how seizures are spread through the central nervous system. When not busy in cloning something, he loves to play chess, writing poems, stories and drawing cartoons. Email: aruneshsaras@berkeley.edu
Jascha Pohl Jascha received his Ph.D from the University of Texas at Austin in the lab of Dr. Nigel Atkinson investigating ethanol tolerance and preference in Drosophila. He is currently looking at the effects of synaptic mutations on suppressing seizures in the fly. When not in the lab, Jascha enjoys hiking, camping, cooking, and watching Bay Area sports. Email: jaschapohl@berkeley.edu
Jascha Pohl Jason first became exposed to neuroscience while studying development of the nervous system while working in Chris Doe's lab at the University of Oregon (Go Ducks!). After graduation, he moved cross-country and worked for Howard Hughes Medical Institute as a research technician at Janelia Farm Research Campus in Ashburn, VA. He was involved in the Fly Light Team Project and generated tools for the manipulation of neural stem cell lineages in Drosophila. He moved back to the West coast in Fall 2011, to begin the Molecular & Cell Biology PhD. program at University of California, Berkeley, and joined the Tanouye lab in Spring 2012. His hobbies include zymurgy (the science of fermentation) & home brewing. Email: krollj@berkeley.edu
Zeid Rusan Currently working on analysis of electrophysiological activity patterns induced via electroconvulsive shock in Drosophila.
Email: rich.e.price@gmail.com