Will Allen

William “Will” Allen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Developmental Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Will was previously an independent Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows where he collaborated with Xiaowei Zhuang, Jonathan Weissman, Catherine Dulac, and Feng Zhang at Harvard and MIT to map brain aging and to develop and apply tools for large-scale in vivo pooled genetic screens. Prior to that, he completed his PhD at Stanford under the guidance of advisors Karl Deisseroth and Liqun Luo. He developed new tools to map the structure and function of the mammalian brain at a large scale and high resolution, and applied these tools to uncover the neural mechanisms of thirst.

Will received a BS from Brown University and was a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge, where he received his master’s degree.