McCormick Lab

In the Cushing Brain Collection at Yale. From left: Eddie Zagha, Carlos Mauriera, Yuguo Yu, Robert Sachdev, Alvaro Duque, Annie Lincoln, Carolina Oliva, David McCormick, Babak Tahvildari, Flavio Frohlich, Amanda Foust

David McCormick

David McCormick

Professor of Neurobiology

Eddie Zagha

Eddie Zagha

Postdoctoral Fellow

Robert Sachdev

Robert Sachdev

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Matthew McGinley

Matt McGinley

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Amanda Foust

Amanda Foust

Graduate Student

Amanda Casale

Amanda Casale

Graduate Student

Babak Tahvildari

Babak Tahvildari

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Previous Lab Members:

Postdoctoral Fellows (Partial List)


Hans-Christian Pape, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University Bochum, Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow 1989-1990


Anne Williamson, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University Maryland, Baltimore, 1989

Postdoctoral Fellow 1989-1991


Ary Ramoa, M.D., Ph.D.

Ph.D. University California, Berkeley

Research Associate 1993-1994


Thierry Bal, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University of Bordeaux, France, 1991

Postdoctoral Fellow 1991-1995


Marcus von Krosigk, Ph.D.

PhD. Oxford University, 1991

Postdoctoral Fellow 1991-1994


Uhnoh Kim, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Duke University, 1993

Postdoctoral Fellow 1993-1999.


Maria Victoria Sanchez-Vives, M.D., Ph.D.

M.D., Ph.D. University of Alicante, Spain, 1992

Postdoctoral Fellow, 1995-1999.


Lionel Nowak, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University Claude Bernard, Lyon France

Fall 1995-1999.


Anita Luthi, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1995

Postdoctoral Fellow: 1996-2000.


Hal Blumenfeld, M.D, Ph.D.

M.D., Ph.D. Columbia 1992

Associate Research Scientist: 1998-2000.


Joshua Brumberg, Ph.D.

Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh, 1997

Postdoctoral Fellow: 1997-2001.


Yousheng Shu, Ph.D.

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Brain Research Institute, 1999.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 2001-2007.


Jeremy Bergsman, Ph.D.

Ph.D. Neurosience, Stanford University, 2001.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2005.


Christian Broberger, M.D., Ph.D.

Karolinska Institute, 2001.

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2004.


Wen Jun Gao, M.D., Ph.D.

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai Brain

Research Institute, 1997.

Research Associate: 2004-2005.


Alvaro Duque, Ph.D.

Pennsylvania State University, 2003.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 2006-2008.


Yuguo Yu, Ph.D.

Nanjing University, 2001.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 2005-2011.


Flavio Frohlich, Ph.D.

University California San Diego, 2007.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 2007-2011.


Markus Woefel, Ph.D.

University of Goettingen, 2005.

Postdoctoral Fellow: 2009-2011.


Predoctoral Fellows


Zhong Wang

B.Sc. Peking University, 1989

Ph.D. 1989-1993


Kendall Lee

B.S. University Colorado

M.D./Ph.D. 1993-1998.


James Monckton

B.S. State University of New York, Stony Brook

Ph.D. 1996-2000.


Andrea Hasenstaub

B.S.California Institute of Technology, 2001.

Ph.D. 2001-2007.


Bilal Haider, Ph.D.

University of Illinois, 2003.

Ph.D: 2004-2009.

Lab day at the beach

Lab Picture #2(click for the full-sized version)

McCormick Lab Brain Bank

Yousheng Patches a Giant Axon!

Design Anna Bolteus