News
Recent happenings with Hébert team members!
Winter 2023
Alexandra Quezada successfully defends her PhD thesis – congrats Alex!
Fall 2022
Felipe Vilicich joins the lab as a Research Trainee – welcome Felipe!
Dhanya Vettiatil joins the lab as a postdoc – welcome Dhanya!
Summer 2022
Nadiya Nawsheen joins the lab as a PhD student – welcome Nadiya!
Maitriyee Mahanta joins the lab as a collaborating Research Assistant – welcome Maitriyee!
Spring 2022
Seth Kattapong-Graber joins the lab as a PhD student – welcome Seth!
Kiran Ahmad joins the lab as a Research Assistant/Lab Manager – welcome Kiran!
Fall 2021
Asif Maroof joins our group as a Research Assistant Professor – welcome Asif!
The lab receives a prestigious $1M Methuselah Foundation award.
Summer 2021
Joanna Krzyspiak successfully defends her thesis.
Matthew Fontanese joins the lab as a Research Assistant – welcome Matthew!
Rohan Hofland, MD/PhD student, joins the lab – welcome Rohan!
Joanna receives a competitive travel award for the 2021 ASNTR meeting. Yeay!
Nicolas Buitrago completes the PostBac program and will start as a PhD student at Rice University this Fall in the Synthetic Biology program!
Spring 2021
Dan (Mike) Pineda graduated from the residency program and will be starting his fellowship in the Cleveland Clinic, Las Vegas branch this month!
Winter 2021
Marta Gronska-Peski receives the prestigious Marmur Award for her thesis work. Congratulations!
Fall 2020
Jean’s book, Replacing Aging, is released on Amazon, find it here.
Sarah Hong joins the lab as a Research Assistant – welcome Sarah!
Spring 2020
Dr. Hiroko Nobuta, postdoc, accepts an Assistant Professor position at Rutgers University.
Hiroko is awarded a New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) postdoctoral grant in addition to her postdoc-to-independent investigator transition award.
Nkechime Ifediora, Research Assistant, chooses Columbia University to pursue her PhD studies.
Dr. Marta Gronska-Peski, PhD student, accepts a postdoc position at the NY University Medical School.
Winter 2019–2020
Fall 2019
Alexandra Quezada, PhD student, is granted a New York State Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM) Training Program in Stem Cell Research award.
Alex completes her qualifying exam with honors.
Joanna Krzyspiak, PhD student, gives an invited nanosymposium talk at the Society for Neuroscience 49th Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA.
Marta gives an invited nanosymposium talk at the Society for Neuroscience 49th Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL, USA.
Nachiket Kamatkar, PhD student, accepts a postdoc position at Columbia University.
Summer 2019
Nachiket successfully defends his thesis.
Michelle Antoine, PhD student, after a postdoc at UC Berkeley with Dan Feldman, accepts a faculty position as lab Chief at the NIAAA, National Institutes of Health
Spring 2019
Jayleecia Smith, Research Assistant, chooses Cornell Medical School for her MD studies.
Marta gives an invited talk at the Undoing Aging conference in Berlin, Germany.
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Joanna is granted a New York State Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM) Training Program in Stem Cell Research award.
Marta gives an invited talk at the Gordon Research Conference on FGFs in Development and Disease in Ventura, CA, USA.
Fall 2017
Fall 2016
Marta is granted a 2-year New York State Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM) Training Program in Stem Cell Research award.
Nicholas McKeehan, Research Assistant, accepts a position as Assistant Director, Aging and Alzheimer’s Prevention, at the Alzheimer Drug Discovery Foundation.
2015
Hiyaa Ghosh, postdoc, accepts an Assistant Professor position at the National Center for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
Michelle Antoine, PhD student, receives the prestigious Miller Research Fellowship for her new postdoc at the University of California Berkeley.