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Bio:
Kara currently works as a member of the Transgenic Colony Management team, managing the experimental needs for several projects including the Brain TV pipeline project. Kara came to the Institute from the University of Victoria where she studied developmental biology and cell fate determination in the retina in the Chow lab. She also studied the directionally specific retina circuit using in-vitro whole cell electrophysiology. Kara received a MSc. in Neuroscience in 2013 and a BSc in Biology in 2010.
Molecular Therapy: The Journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy
Sep 23, 2025
Meagan A. Quinlan, Rong Guo, Andrew G. Clark, Emily M. Luber, Robert J. Christian, Refugio A. Martinez, Erin L. Groce, Jiatai Liu, Yemeserach M. Bishaw, Ravi Bhowmik, Elizabeth Liang, Melissa Reding, Kara Ronellenfitch, Vonn Wright, Kathryn M. Gudsnuk, Jennifer M. Leedy, John K. Mich, Bryan B. Gore, Tanya L. Daigle, Manuel E. Lopez, Ed S. Lein, Justin K. Ichida, Boaz P. Levi
Cell Reports
Jun 24, 2025
Emily Kussick, Nelson Johansen, Naz Taskin, Ananya Chowdhury, Meagan A. Quinlan, Alex Fraser, Andrew G. Clark, Brooke Wynalda, Refugio Martinez, Erin L. Groce, Melissa Reding, Elizabeth Liang, Lyudmila Shulga, Cindy Huang, Tamara Casper, Michael Clark, Windy Ho, Yuan Gao, Cindy T. J. van Velthoven, Cassandra Sobieski, Rebecca Ferrer, Melissa R. Berg, Britni C. Curtis, Chris English, Jesse C. Day, Michal G. Fortuna, Nicholas Donadio, Dakota Newman, Shenqin Yao, Anish Bhaswanth Chakka, Jeff Goldy, Amy Torkelson, Junitta B. Guzman, Rushil Chakrabarty, Beagen Nguy, Nathan Guilford, Trangthanh H. Pham, Vonn Wright, Kara Ronellenfitch, Robyn Naidoo, Jaimie Kenney, Ali Williford, Charu Ramakrishnan, Antonia Drinnenberg, Kathryn Gudsnuk, Bargavi Thyagarajan, Kimberly A. Smith, Nick Dee, Karl Deisseroth, Hongkui Zeng, Zizhen Yao, Bosiljka Tasic, Boaz P. Levi, Rebecca Hodge, Trygve E. Bakken, Ed S. Lein, Jonathan T. Ting, Tanya L. Daigle
Cell
May 29, 2025
Yoav Ben-Simon, Marcus Hooper, Sujatha Narayan, Tanya L. Daigle, Deepanjali Dwivedi, Sharon W. Way, Aaron Oster, David A. Stafford, John K. Mich, Michael J. Taormina, Refugio A. Martinez, Ximena Opitz-Araya, Jada R. Roth, Jason R. Alexander, Shona Allen, Adam Amster, Joel Arbuckle, Angela Ayala, Pamela M. Baker, Trygve E. Bakken, Tyler Barcelli, Stuard Barta, Jacqueline Bendrick, Darren Bertagnolli, Cameron Bielstein, Prajal Bishwakarma, Jessica Bowlus, Gabriella Boyer, Krissy Brouner, Brittny Casian, Tamara Casper, Anish B. Chakka, Rushil Chakrabarty, Rebecca K. Chance, Sakshi Chavan, Michael Clark, Kaity Colbert, Forrest Collman, Scott Daniel, Maxwell Departee, Peter DiValentin, Nicholas Donadio, Nadezhda Dotson, Tom Egdorf, Tim Fliss, Mariano Gabitto, Jazmin Garcia, Amanda Gary, Molly Gasperini, Jessica Gloe, Jeff Goldy, Bryan B. Gore, Lucas Graybuck, Noah Greisman, Francoise Haeseleer, Carliana Halterman, Zeb Haradon, Samantha D. Hastings, Olivia Helback, Windy Ho, Dirk Hockemeyer, Cindy Huang, Sydney Huff, Avery Hunker, Nelson Johansen, Danielle Jones, Zoe Juneau, Brian Kalmbach, Madhav Kannan, Shannon Khem, Emily Kussick, Rana Kutsal, Rachael Larsen, Changkyu Lee, Angus Y. Lee, Madison Leibly, Garreck H. Lenz, Su Li, Elizabeth Liang, Nicholas Lusk, Zachary Madigan, Jessica Malloy, Jocelin Malone, Rachel McCue, Jose Melchor, Tyler Mollenkopf, Skyler Moosman, Elyse Morin, Dakota Newman, Lydia Ng, Kiet Ngo, Victoria Omstead, Sven Otto, Alana Oyama, Nick Pena, Trangthanh Pham, Elliot Phillips, Christina A. Pom, Lydia Potekhina, Shea Ransford, Patrick L. Ray, Dean Rette, Cade Reynoldson, Christine Rimorin, Dana Rocha, Augustin Ruiz, Raymond E. A. Sanchez, Lane Sawyer, Adriana Sedeno-Cortes, Joshua P. Sevigny, Nadiya Shapovalova, Noah Shepard, Lyudmila Shulga, Ana R. Sigler, La'Akea Siverts, Sherif Soliman, Saroja Somasundaram, Brian Staats, Kaiya Stewart, Eric Szelenyi, Michael Tieu, Cameron Trader, Alex Tran, Cindy T. J. van Velthoven, Miranda Walker, Yimin Wang, Natalie Weed, Morgan Wirthlin, Toren Wood, Brooke Wynalda, Zizhen Yao, Thomas Zhou, Jeanelle Ariza, Nick Dee, Melissa Reding, Kara Ronellenfitch, Shoaib Mufti, Susan M. Sunkin, Kimberly A. Smith, Luke Esposito, Jack Waters, Bargavi Thyagarajan, Shenqin Yao, Ed S. Lein, Hongkui Zeng, Boaz P. Levi, John Ngai, Jonathan T. Ting, Bosiljka Tasic
Neuron
May 21, 2025
Avery C. Hunker, Morgan E. Wirthlin, Gursajan Gill, Nelson J. Johansen, Marcus Hooper, Victoria Omstead, Sara Vargas, M. Nathaly Lerma, Naz Taskin, Natalie Weed, William D. Laird, Yemeserach M. Bishaw, Jacqueline L. Bendrick, Bryan B. Gore, Yoav Ben-Simon, Ximena Opitz-Araya, Refugio A. Martinez, Sharon W. Way, Bargavi Thyagarajan, Sven Otto, Raymond E. A. Sanchez, Jason R. Alexander, Avalon Amaya, Adam Amster, Joel Arbuckle, Angela Ayala, Pam M. Baker, Tyler Barcelli, Stuard Barta, Darren Bertagnolli, Cameron Bielstein, Prajal Bishwakarma, Jessica Bowlus, Gabriella Boyer, Krissy Brouner, Brittny Casian, Tamara Casper, Anish Bhaswanth Chakka, Rushil Chakrabarty, Peter Chong, Michael Clark, Kaity Colbert, Scott Daniel, Tim Dawe, Maxwell Departee, Peter DiValentin, Nicholas P. Donadio, Nadezhda I. Dotson, Deepanjali Dwivedi, Tom Egdorf, Tim Fliss, Amanda Gary, Jeff Goldy, Conor Grasso, Erin L. Groce, Kathryn Gudsnuk, Warren Han, Zeb Haradon, Sam Hastings, Olivia Helback, Windy V. Ho, Cindy Huang, Tye Johnson, Danielle L. Jones, Zoe Juneau, Jaimie Kenney, Madison Leibly, Su Li, Elizabeth Liang, Henry Loeffler, Nicholas A. Lusk, Zachary Madigan, Jessica Malloy, Jocelin Malone, Rachel McCue, Jose Melchor, John K. Mich, Skyler Moosman, Elyse Morin, Robyn Naidoo, Dakota Newman, Kiet Ngo, Katrina Nguyen, Aaron L. Oster, Ben Ouellette, Alana A. Oyama, Nick Pena, Trangthanh Pham, Elliot Phillips, Christina Pom, Lydia Potekhina, Shea Ransford, Patrick L. Ray, Melissa Reding, Dean F. Rette, Cade Reynoldson, Christine Rimorin, Ana Rios Sigler, Dana B. Rocha, Kara Ronellenfitch, Augustin Ruiz, Lane Sawyer, Josh P. Sevigny, Nadiya V. Shapovalova, Noah Shepard, Lyudmila Shulga, Sherif Soliman, Brian Staats, Michael J. Taormina, Michael Tieu, Yimin Wang, Josh Wilkes, Toren Wood, Thomas Zhou, Ali Williford, Nick Dee, Tyler Mollenkopf, Lydia Ng, Luke Esposito, Brian E. Kalmbach, Shenqin Yao, Jeanelle Ariza, Forrest Collman, Shoaib Mufti, Kimberly Smith, Jack Waters, Ina Ersing, Marcella Patrick, Hongkui Zeng, Ed S. Lein, Yoshiko Kojima, Greg Horwitz, Scott F. Owen, Boaz P. Levi, Tanya L. Daigle, Bosiljka Tasic, Trygve E. Bakken, Jonathan T. Ting
Nature
Jan 01, 2025
Kelly Jin, Zizhen Yao, Cindy T. J. van Velthoven, Eitan S. Kaplan, Katie Glattfelder, Samuel T. Barlow, Gabriella Boyer, Daniel Carey, Tamara Casper, Anish Bhaswanth Chakka, Rushil Chakrabarty, Michael Clark, Max Departee, Marie Desierto, Amanda Gary, Jessica Gloe, Jeff Goldy, Nathan Guilford, Junitta Guzman, Daniel Hirschstein, Changkyu Lee, Elizabeth Liang, Trangthanh Pham, Melissa Reding, Kara Ronellenfitch, Augustin Ruiz, Josh Sevigny, Nadiya Shapovalova, Lyudmila Shulga, Josef Sulc, Amy Torkelson, Herman Tung, Boaz Levi, Susan M. Sunkin, Nick Dee, Luke Esposito, Kimberly A. Smith, Bosiljka Tasic, Hongkui Zeng
Preprint
Feb 17, 2023
Marina Garrett, Peter Groblewski, Alex Piet, Doug Ollerenshaw, Farzaneh Najafi, Iryna Yavorska, Adam Amster, Corbett Bennett, Michael Buice, Shiella Caldejon, Linzy Casal, Florence D’Orazi, Scott Daniel, Saskia EJ de Vries, Daniel Kapner, Justin Kiggins, Jerome Lecoq, Peter Ledochowitsch, Sahar Manavi, Nicholas Mei, Christopher B. Morrison, Sarah Naylor, Natalia Orlova, Jed Perkins, Nick Ponvert, Clark Roll, Sam Seid, Derric Williams, Allison Williford, Ruweida Ahmed, Daniel Amine, Yazan Billeh, Chris Bowman, Nicholas Cain, Andrew Cho, Tim Dawe, Max Departee, Marie Desoto, David Feng, Sam Gale, Emily Gelfand, Nile Gradis, Conor Grasso, Nicole Hancock, Brian Hu, Ross Hytnen, Xiaoxuan Jia, Tye Johnson, India Kato, Sara Kivikas, Leonard Kuan, Quinn L’Heureux, Sophie Lambert, Arielle Leon, Elizabeth Liang, Fuhui Long, Kyla Mace, Ildefons Magrans de Abril, Chris Mochizuki, Chelsea Nayan, Katherine North, Lydia Ng, Gabriel Koch Ocker, Michael Oliver, Paul Rhoads, Kara Ronellenfitch, Kathryn Schelonka, Josh Sevigny, David Sullivan, Ben Sutton, Jackie Swapp, Thuyanh K. Nguyen, Xana Waughman, Joshua Wilkes, Michael Wang, Colin Farrell, Wayne Wakeman, Hongkui Zeng, John Phillips, Stefan Mihalas, Anton Arkhipov, Christof Koch, Shawn R. Olsen
Apr 01, 2021
Joshua H. Siegle, Xiaoxuan Jia, Séverine Durand, Sam Gale, Corbett Bennett, Nile Graddis, Greggory Heller, Tamina K. Ramirez, Hannah Choi, Jennifer A. Luviano, Peter A. Groblewski, Ruweida Ahmed, Anton Arkhipov, Amy Bernard, Yazan N. Billeh, Dillan Brown, Michael A. Buice, Nicolas Cain, Shiella Caldejon, Linzy Casal, Andrew Cho, Maggie Chvilicek, Timothy C. Cox, Kael Dai, Daniel J. Denman, Saskia E. J. de Vries, Roald Dietzman, Luke Esposito, Colin Farrell, David Feng, John Galbraith, Marina Garrett, Emily C. Gelfand, Nicole Hancock, Julie A. Harris, Robert Howard, Brian Hu, Ross Hytnen, Ramakrishnan Iyer, Erika Jessett, Katelyn Johnson, India Kato, Justin Kiggins, Sophie Lambert, Jerome Lecoq, Peter Ledochowitsch, Jung Hoon Lee, Arielle Leon, Yang Li, Elizabeth Liang, Fuhui Long, Kyla Mace, Jose Melchior, Daniel Millman, Tyler Mollenkopf, Chelsea Nayan, Lydia Ng, Kiet Ngo, Thuyahn Nguyen, Philip R. Nicovich, Kat North, Gabriel Koch Ocker, Doug Ollerenshaw, Michael Oliver, Marius Pachitariu, Jed Perkins, Melissa Reding, David Reid, Miranda Robertson, Kara Ronellenfitch, Sam Seid, Cliff Slaughterbeck, Michelle Stoecklin, David Sullivan, Ben Sutton, Jackie Swapp, Carol Thompson, Kristen Turner, Wayne Wakeman, Jennifer D. Whitesell, Derric Williams, Ali Williford, Rob Young, Hongkui Zeng, Sarah Naylor, John W. Phillips, R. Clay Reid, Stefan Mihalas, Shawn R. Olsen, Christof Koch
Nov 12, 2020
Nathan W. Gouwens, Staci A. Sorensen, Fahimeh Baftizadeh, Agata Budzillo, Brian R. Lee, Tim Jarsky, Lauren Alfiler, Katherine Baker, Eliza Barkan, Kyla Berry, Darren Bertagnolli, Kris Bickley, Jasmine Bomben, Thomas Braun, Krissy Brouner, Tamara Casper, Kirsten Crichton, Tanya L. Daigle, Rachel Dalley, Rebecca A. de Frates, Nick Dee, Tsega Desta, Samuel Dingman Lee, Nadezhda Dotson, Tom Egdorf, Lauren Ellingwood, Rachel Enstrom, Luke Esposito, Colin Farrell, David Feng, Olivia Fong, Rohan Gala, Clare Gamlin, Amanda Gary, Alexandra Glandon, Jeff Goldy, Melissa Gorham, Lucas Graybuck, Hong Gu, Kristen Hadley, Michael J. Hawrylycz, Alex M. Henry, DiJon Hill, Madie Hupp, Sara Kebede, Tae Kyung Kim, Lisa Kim, Matthew Kroll, Changkyu Lee, Katherine E. Link, Matthew Mallory, Rusty Mann, Michelle Maxwell, Medea McGraw, Delissa McMillen, Alice Mukora, Lindsay Ng, Lydia Ng, Kiet Ngo, Philip R. Nicovich, Aaron Oldre, Daniel Park, Hanchuan Peng, Osnat Penn, Thanh Pham, Alice Pom, Zoran Popović, Lydia Potekhina, Ramkumar Rajanbabu, Shea Ransford, David Reid, Christine Rimorin, Miranda Robertson, Kara Ronellenfitch, Augustin Ruiz, David Sandman, Kimberly Smith, Josef Sulc, Susan M. Sunkin, Aaron Szafer, Michael Tieu, Amy Torkelson, Jessica Trinh, Herman Tung, Wayne Wakeman, Katelyn Ward, Grace Williams, Zhi Zhou, Jonathan T. Ting, Anton Arkhipov, Uygar Sümbül, Ed S. Lein, Christof Koch, Zizhen Yao, Bosiljka Tasic, Jim Berg, Gabe J. Murphy, Hongkui Zeng