“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team”
Our team
Marc Schneeberger Pané, PhD
Assistant Professor - Principal Investigator
Marc received his B.S. in Pharmacy from Barcelona University, Catalonia in 2010. He studied how mitochondria is responsible for controlling whole body energy balance and metabolism in the canonical site for energy balance control (hypothalamus) with Marc Claret, PhD and earned his Ph.D. in Biomedicine at the Barcelona University, Catalonia in 2015. He then became a KAVLI postdoctoral fellow and a Pathway to Independence fellow in Prof. Jeffrey M.Friedman laboratory at The Rockefeller University. There he conducted whole mount activity maps in energy states to decipher the role of two novel subsets of neurons in the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus of the brainstem in energy balance control.
Graduate student INP
Juan completed his BSc in Neuroscience at the University of Calgary in 2024. During his degree, he investigated the behavioral and physiological effects of early Alzheimer’s Disease in serotonergic neurons, where he became interested in behavioral neuroscience. He is now a graduate student in the INP program, and he is studying the underlying circuit that contributes to sociability, its regulation, and how it affects other facets of behavior and physiology. Outside of lab he enjoys reading, playing videogames, and trying new food!
Fun/Scary Science Fact: In the visible universe, there are 10,000 stars for every grain of sand on Earth *so scary*
Daxiang Na, PhD
David Meseguer Garcia
Postgraduate Research Associate - Upcoming Graduate Student TMMPP
David received his B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of Valencia, Spain. During his degree, he worked on differentes fields including the implementation of pharmacogenetics in pediatric oncology (IIS La fe) or the relationship between Mu-opioid receptor and neuroimmunity (Doreal lab). He is interested in neurodegeneration and neuroimmunity.
Outside the lab, he enjoys spending time with his friends, discover new places and watch movies!
Fun science fact: Penguins propose with pebbles - if accepted, they become a couple.
Previous Alumni
Bandy Chen - Currently pursuing his MD/PhD at the University of San Diego
José Gabriel Grajales-Reyes, MD PhD
Clinical Postdoctoral Fellow
José is an anesthesiology resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. Originally from Bayamón, Puerto Rico, he earned a Bachelor of Science in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of Puerto Rico - Río Piedras in 2012. He subsequently completed his MD and PhD in Neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine in 2022. Dr. Grajales Reyes’ research interests include neurobiology, and pain modulation.
Amanda Rodriguez Diaz
Visiting student
Postdoctoral Associate
Daxiang was originally raised up in China. He did his PhD in Genetics at the University of Rochester. His current projects include understanding the neurovascular control of brain activity using high-through put methods such as single-cell sequencing and global mapping of neurovasculature organization. He enjoys parks and fishing outside the lab.
Fun science fact: some animals can be solar-powered, such as green sea slug.
Jessica Furtado, PhD
Juan Uribe Isaza
Postdoctoral Associate
Jessica was born in Mumbai and grew up in Dubai, U.A.E. She earned her Bachelors’ in Biochemistry and in Public Health from UMass Amherst and her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology Sciences from Yale University. Her PhD research focused on the blood-retina barrier and blood-brain barrier. Outside the lab, she enjoys trying new foods and cycling.
Fun fact: If your 100,000 kilometers of blood vessels were laid end-to-end, they would wrap around the Earth twice!