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  [### Tracy Barbaro

 ](/people/nikki-hughes) <tbarbaro@oeb.harvard.edu>Administrative Coordinator

 

 

 Tracy capably manages the administrative and logistical side of the Hoekstra lab -- from coordinating paperwork and purchasing to generally keeping the lab running smoothly! 

 

 

      ![picture of the lab coordinator](/sites/g/files/omnuum6376/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-01/barbaro_tracy_72dpi_3.jpg?itok=uzmmQZQA) 

 

 

 

   [### Hopi E. Hoekstra

 ](/current-lab-members/hopi-hoekstra) <hoekstra@oeb.harvard.edu>Principal Investigator

 

 

 Hopi received her B.A. in Integrative Biology from UC Berkeley. She completed her Ph.D. in 2000 as a Howard Hughes Predoctoral Fellow at the University of Washington. She then moved to the University of Arizona as a NIH Postdoctoral Fellow where she... 

 

 

      ![Hopi Hoekstra](/sites/g/files/omnuum6376/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hoekstra/files/rsz_1080417_hopi_012_1.jpg?itok=eJaGZ-nU) 

 

 

 

   [### Jenny Chen

 ](/people/jenny-chen) [jennifer\_chen@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:jennifer_chen@fas.harvard.edu) Postdoctoral Researcher

 

 

 Jenny is interested in the evolution of regulatory mechanisms underlying innate behaviors of Peromyscus mice. She received her PhD at MIT with Aviv Regev, where she developed statistical and computational methods for studying the evolution of gene... 

 

 

      ![Jenny Chen](/sites/g/files/omnuum6376/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hoekstra/files/jenny_chen_hoekstra_eddy7-300x272.jpg?itok=C3YiU3H_) 

 

 

 

   [### Shuonan He

 ](/people/shuonan-he) <shuonanhe@fas.harvard.edu>Postdoctoral Researcher

 

 

 

      ![Shuonan He](/sites/g/files/omnuum6376/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hoekstra/files/img_2077_01.jpg?itok=xGLTjYlc) 

 

 

 

   [### Isobel Smith

 ](/people/isobel-smith) <ihsmith@fas.harvard.edu>Research Technician

 

 

 

      ![Isobel Smith holding small bird on finger in the woods](/sites/g/files/omnuum6376/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hoekstra/files/isobel_lab_website_photo.jpeg?itok=Rg6e85Tq) 

 

 

 

   [### Kelsey Tyssowski

 ](/people/kelsey-tyssowski) <tyssowski@g.harvard.edu>Postdoctoral Researcher

 

 

 Kelsey is broadly interested in understanding nervous system function at the molecular level. She received a BA in Molecular Biology and Neuroscience from Wesleyan University in 2011. She then worked as a research technician in Yukiko Gotoh’s lab at the... 

 

 

      ![Kelsey](/sites/g/files/omnuum6376/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/hoekstra/files/kelsey_0_1.jpeg?itok=uMrAhk5j)