Nathaniel J. Himmel, PhD

Principal Investigator

Nate recieved his undergraduate degrees in biology at Santa Fe Community College and the University of Florida. After working for 2 years as a technician in the lab of Mitsi Blount (Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA), he then completed a PhD in Neuroscience in the lab of Daniel N. Cox, at Georgia State University (Atlanta, GA, USA) where he was funded by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31), a fellowship from the Brains & Behavior Program, and a Kenneth W. and Georganne F. Honeycutt Fellowship. He then traveled to Switzerland, funded by a Human Frontiers Science Program Long-Term Fellowship, to do postdoctoral research at l'Université de Lausanne, in the lab of Richard Benton.

email: nathanieljohn.himmel (at) unil.ch

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Sanniddhya Bardhan

PhD Student (2026 - )

Sanniddhya holds a BTech in Medical Biotechnology from the Dr. Dy Patil Bioinformatics and Biotechnology Institutes, and an MS in Bioinformatics from Johns Hopkins University, where he worked in the labs of Evgenia Nikolava and Scott Krummey, and in the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing. Sanniddhya joined the lab in 2026 and is interested in using multiomics approaches to understand complex biological systems.

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