Nicole Johnston

Nicole Johnston

Nicole Johnston is the Research Administrative Assistant for the Kumar Lab. She enjoys supporting this dedicated, dynamic team as they advance their mission. Nicole manages a broad range of administrative and operational responsibilities to help ensure the lab runs...
Tim Leach

Tim Leach

Timothy Leach joined the Kumar Lab as a research assistant in April 2025 on April Fools’ Day, no less. With nearly 20 years of hands-on experience at The Jackson Laboratory, he brings a deep well of practical knowledge and technical skill to the team. Though he didn’t...
Dustin Miao

Dustin Miao

Dustin is an undergraduate student at Carnegie Mellon University studying computer science and biology. He joined the Kumar lab as part of the 2025 Summer Student Program cohort. In the lab, he is working on using unsupervised computer vision techniques to study aging...

Pavan Matani

Pavan is a visiting student at the lab for the summer of 2025 and is doing his PhD at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain. He is interested in using computer vision to profile social behaviors in mice in order to understand the mediation of Indirect...
Tuan Nguyen

Tuan Nguyen

Tuan joins the lab in April 2025 as a PhD student in the Neuro @ JAX program of Tufts University. He wants to know how alterations in genetics, gene expression, and neural activities can influence behavior and contribute to psychiatric diseases. He is working on...
Fionna Kennedy

Fionna Kennedy

Fionna joined the Kumar lab as a research assistant in August 2024. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience & Behavior from Mount Holyoke College. Fionna is particularly interested in the neural circuitry underlying behavior and how alteration to those...