I am currently a Postdoctoral Scholar focused on molecular properties and neural coding principals of pain-related neural circuits in normal and diseased states in Prof. Allan Basbaum's lab at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). I obtained my BSc from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (in Biology & in Brain and Cognitive Sciences) and PhD from Stanford (Biology, under the mentorship of Prof. Mark Schnitzer).

In my free time I write short stories, code, take advantage of Bay Area's gorgeous weather, and more!

This site was originally created as a testing ground for me to hone my web development skills. Thus, I designed and coded the site from scratch. This article describes a little about how the site's design has evolved since it's inception: the evolving style (29 March 2012).

email: contact [at] bahanonu.com

across the web

scientific training

I have had the opportunity to work in the following labs (as is probably evident, I wholeheartedly endorse the philosophy that research + traveling [and learning about new cultures] = awesome!) and thank everyone for all the help, mentorship, and encouragement.

• Basbaum Lab (UCSF | San Francisco, CA)
• Schnitzer Lab (Stanford University | CA, USA)
• Cheong Lab (Temasek Life Sciences | Singapore)
• Tsai Lab (MIT | Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Jasanoff Lab (MIT | Cambridge, MA, USA)
• Jayaraman Lab (HHMI Janelia Farm | VA, USA)
• Ramos Group (Tecnológico de Monterrey | Cuernavaca, Mexico)
• Louis Lab (CRG | Barcelona, Spain)
• Hills Lab (University of Basel | Basel, Switzerland)
• Gabrieli Lab (MIT | Cambridge, MA, USA)

funding

I would like to thank all those who've helped fund my education and training, several of whom are listed below.

• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna H. Gray Fellowship
• NINDS R35: Postdoctoral Diversity Research Supplement Funding
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship
• NSF Graduate Fellowship
• Zeno Karl Schindler Grant
• Eugene & Margaret McDermott Scholarship
• Gates Millennium Scholarship
• National Achievement Scholarship (Sponsor: Freeport­McMoRan Copper & Gold.)