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Dr. Carey is a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Wade Regehr's laboratory in the Department of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the cerebellum, a brain area critical for the learning and execution of simple behaviors.
Her first experience with neuroscience research was as an undergraduate at Wesleyan University. She received her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of California, San Francisco, where she studied how the brain converts visual signals into motor commands for smooth eye movements in Dr. Stephen Lisberger's laboratory.
Dr. Carey is expecting her first child in February 2007, and is very excited to have received a Research Enabling Grant to help her balance professional and personal responsibilities.
Dr. Knott's research focuses on orangutan behavior and biology to further the understanding of endangered great apes and provide clues to human evolutionary history.
She is the director of the Gunung Palung Orangutan Project in Indonesia, which gathers information on many aspects of orangutan ecology, reproduction, social behavior, development, physiology, ranging and cognition. Her work includes laboratory analysis of orangutan hormones, nutritional biochemical analysis of their foods, and GIS analysis of their ranging behavior. She also runs an orangutan conservation program which works with the local people of Borneo to protect the orangutan and its habitat.
Dr. Knott earned her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1999. In addition to her work at Harvard and in Indonesia, Dr. Knott serves as a research associate for the San Diego Museum of Man and was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. She is the mother of Russell, age 6, and Jessica, age 3. Her husband, Tim Laman, received his Ph.D. from Harvard in OEB in 1994. He is now a wildlife photographer for National Geographic Magazine and a Research Associate in the Bird Department of Harvard's MCZ.
Dr. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is a specialist in impact cratering and shock physics studies of natural materials. In 2004, she established a new Shock Compression Laboratory at Harvard that focuses on planetary science topics and training new experimentalists in space research. She earned her Ph.D. from Caltech in 2002.
Her current research includes laboratory shock magnetization and shock temperature experiments to study the history of meteorites and the evolution of planetary surfaces. Dr. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay combines observational and modeling studies impact craters with laboratory results to infer the history of planetary bodies. Her research interests include experimental and computational study of impact processes to interpret the resurfacing history, physical properties, and internal structure of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets.
She is a member of the Harvard Origins of Life Initiative. Dr. Stewart-Mukhopadhyay is the mother of Asha Stewart Mukhopadhyay, born March 4, 2006.