Principal Investigator

Seth Blackshaw

Dr. Seth Blackshaw is a professor of neuroscience, neurology and ophthalmology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Additionally, he serves as an investigator in both the High Throughput Biology Center and the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Blackshaw received a B.A. in biology and an M.S. in biochemistry from the University of Chicago in 1991. He completed his Ph.D. in neurosciences at Johns Hopkins in 1997 and subsequently conducted postdoctoral work in genetics at the Harvard University Medical School. He joined the Hopkins faculty in 2004. Dr. Blackshaw has authored or co-authored more than 110 peer-reviewed publications and holds several patents and copyrights. His work has garnered numerous grants and awards, including the W. M. Keck Foundation Distinguished Young Scholar in Medical Research Award, the Klingenstein Fellowship, the Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar Award and the Ruth and Milton Steinbach Fund Award for Research in Macular Degeneration. He is a member of the Society for Developmental Biology and the Society for Neuroscience, and serves on the editorial boards of Biomolecules and Frontiers of Systems Biology.


Postdoctoral Fellows


Graduate Students

Staff


Alumni

Postdoctoral fellows, Doctoral students, Graduate students

Trainee Name Position in Blackshaw Lab Training Period .Current PositionCurrent Institution
Nicole A. RapicavoliPhD, doctoral student2004-09FAS manager, Western Region10X Genomics, Redwood City, CA
Akishi OnishiPhD, postdoctoral fellow2005-09Senior Research Associate RIKEN-CDB, Kobe, Japan
Marina AvetisyanBA/MS student2005-07 Neurology resident Massachusetts General Hospital
Daniel A. LeeBS, doctoral student2006-12Postdoctoral fellow Caltech
Ana Miranda-AnguloMD, doctoral student2006-13Professor of PsychiatryUniversidad de Antigua
Medellin, Columbia
Jimmy de MeloPhD, postdoctoral fellow2006-16Senior BiochemistBayer, St. Louis, MO
Erin PothBS, doctoral student2007-12Senior Manager
of Global Medical Affairs
Takeda Oncology, Cambridge, MA
Eric CoxBS, doctoral student2007-14Staff ScientistRefSeq
Mardi S. ByerlyPhD, postdoctoral fellow2008-10Postdoctoral fellow Marine Biology Lab, Woods Hole, MA
Joseph L. BedontBS, doctoral student2010-15Postdoctoral fellow HHMI/University of Pennsylvania
School of Medicine
Kai LiuMS, doctoral student2010-17ScientistGenentech
Thuzar TheinBS, doctoral student2011-16Medical student Harvard Medical School
Cristina ZibettiPhD, postdoctoral fellow2011-17
Elizabeth NewmanBS, doctoral student2011-17Grants Administration Specialist . National Institute of Aging
Juan SalvatierraPost-baccalaureate
PREP student
2011-13Postdoctoral fellow UCSF
Anand Venkataraman .PhD, postdoctoral fellow 2014-17Associate Consultant ZS, Philadelphia, PA
Brian ClarkPhD, postdoctoral fellow2014-18Assistant Professor
Departments of Ophthalmology
and Developmental Biology
Washington University
School of Medicine
Mobolane AbedesinPost-baccalaureate
PREP student .
2016-17MSTP student Vanderbilt University
School of Medicine
Changyu Sunmasters student2019-20Doctoral studentUniversity of Chicago
Sooyeon Yoopostdoctoral fellow2013-20Assistant ProfessorSeoul National University
Jon Lingpostdoctoral fellow2017-20Assistant Professor, Department of PathologyJohns Hopkins School of Medicine
Kurt Weirdoctoral student2018-22Postdoctoral fellowEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
Megan Gimmenpostbaccalaureate fellow2020-22Medical studentHarvard Medical School
Thanh Hoangpostdoctoral fellow2016-23Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Cell and Developmental BiologyUniversity of Michigan
Thomas (Dong Won) Kimpostdoctoral fellow2016-23Group Leader/Associate Professor, Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE)Aarhus University

Undergraduate and High School Students

Marina AvetisyanAbhi Bathini Tanushri BhatnagarKyra Bowen
David ChaVanessa CharubhumiWeina DaiDavid Espinoza
David GaribFelicia JuarezNatalie KimovaSonia Lin
Noah LuAlex MaJanie MesaErik Aranda-Michel
Thomas PakTrisha ParayilRitvik PulyaChristian Saez
Ricardo Linares SaldanaFion ShiauRoy SwansonVani Takiar
Natasha VegaZoe WangCraig WashingtonYi Stephanie Zhang