Research Staff

Edward Rogers received his Ph.D from Emory University, where he did his graduate work in the lab of Kevin Moses, studying the role of intracellular signaling in the patterning of the Drosophila eye during development. He then went on to do a postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of Mark Peifer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he studied the roles of Abelson Kinase in morphogenesis and cytoskeletal regulation. He is currently in the lab of Michael Reiser where he studies the neuroanatomical basis of visual behaviors.

My research interests are in computer vision, machine learning, and deep learning.  I did my graduate work at the Vision Lab at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, under the supervision of Professor Erik Learned-Miller.  The main focus of my work was developing weakly-supervised learning methods for improving unconstrained face verification.  More information can be found at my UMass-Amherst webpage, as well as

Gowan Tervo is a lab head and MCN Principal Scientist. As a graduate student, he worked with Karel Svoboda at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. As a PostDoc and Research Scientist, he worked with Alla Karpova at Janelia Research Campus. He has a long-term interest in understanding how the brain implements social behavior and has invested in the development of methods and tools to enable such research.

Getahun earned his M.S. from the University of Maryland University College in biotechnology and B.S. in biology from Addis Ababa University. In 1998, he joined The Institute for Genomic Research, in Rockville MD, and worked on various genome sequencing projects. From 2004-2011, he worked at the J. Craig Venter Institute in the Pathogenic Functional Genomic Resource Center (PFGRC). His main task at the PFGRC was high throughput cloning and site-directed mutagenesis, protein expression, and purification.

I have a B.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan where I worked in the lab of Steven R. Meshnick in the School of Public Health, studying Malaria and immunology in pregnancy, and fell in love with molecular biology. I continued my training after graduating in the lab of Maurine R Hobbs at the University of Utah School of Medicine, studying associations between host genetics and severe malaria, where I enhanced my appreciation for the necessity of good, basic biological research.