Team Cuttlefish is based in the Axel lab at the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. We are a multidisciplinary bunch, and we believe*:
Tessa Montague, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
tessa.montague@columbia.edu
she/her
Erica Shook
Graduate Student & NSF fellow
es3773@columbia.edu
she/her
Tom Mungioli
Cephalopod Husbandry Technician
tjm2206@columbia.edu
he/him
Daniella Garcia-Rosales
Creative Technologist
dg3092@columbia.edu
she/her
Thomas Barlow
Graduate Student & NSF fellow
gtb2115@cumc.columbia.edu
he/him
Sarafina Belafonte
Undergraduate
smb2355@columbia.edu
she/her
Connor Gibbons
Cephalopod Facility Manager
cjg2191@columbia.edu
he/him
Aurora Xu
Research Assistant
yx3047@columbia.edu
she/her
Linda Qin
Undergraduate
xq2229@barnard.edu
she/her
Alumni
Eva Castagna
Former: Research Assistant
Current: Graduate student at Tufts |
she/her
Zaila Avant-garde
Former: High school student
Current: Undergraduate at UMD |
she/her
Mycah (Mac) Simmons
Former: Research Assistant
Current: Master’s student at Mount Sinai | they/them
Kyra Bonta
Former: Summer student
Current: Undergraduate at Yale University | she/her
Maggie Pozo
Former: Summer student
Current: Undergraduate at the Univ of Utah |
she/her
Melvin Williams
Former: Summer student
Current: Graduate student at Harvard |
he/him
Roselis Emiliano
Former: BRAINYAC summer student
Current: Undergraduate at Stony Brook University | she/her
*inspired by Sammy Katta’s posters