Lab Members

Principal Invstigator

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Zemer Gitai
Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology
Office Phone
(609) 258-9420
Email
[email protected]

Administrative and Support

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Ellen Brindle-Clark, MBA
Faculty Assistant
Office Phone
609-258-5419
Email
[email protected]
Joe Sheehan
Joseph Sheehan
Lab Manager
Email
[email protected]

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Emily Chen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email
[email protected]
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Haochen Fu
Associate Research Scholar
Email
[email protected]
Ghita Guessous
Associate Research Scholar
Email
[email protected]
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Xin Huang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email
[email protected]
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Ido Irani
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email
[email protected]
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Alejandro Martinez-Calvo
Associate Research Scholar
Email
[email protected]
Xukang Shen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Email
[email protected]

Graduate Students

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Owen Abad
Graduate Student
Email
[email protected]
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Julia Balch
Graduate Student
Email
[email protected]
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Ziyang Chen
Graduate Student
Email
[email protected]
Xingjian Hou
Graduate Student
Email
[email protected]
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Olivia Perroti
Graduate Student
Email
[email protected]
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Jiayi Yuan
Graduate Student
Email
[email protected]

Undergraduate Students

Joanna Adeoye
Undergraduate Student '26
Amalia Nevarez
Undergraduate Student '27
Sophia Root
Undergraduate Student '26
Shiv Tickoo
Undergraduate Student '26

Alumni - Postdoctoral Fellows

Julia Bos
Permanent Researcher
Pasteur Institute, France
Benjamin Bratton
Assistant Professor
Vanderbilt University
Kim Cowles
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Amit Duvshani
Senior Manager
Hospital for Special Surgery
Courtney Ellison
Assistant Professor
University of Georgia
Kathrin Frohlich
Leader, Bacterial RNA Biology Junior Research Group
Friedrich-Schiller Universitat Jena
Kelsey Hallinen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Eric Klein
Associate Professor
Rutgers University - Camden
Matthias Koch
Assistant Professor
Texas A & M
Randy Morgenstein
Associate Professor
Oklahoma State University
Theresa Moser
Medical Writer
Alex Persat
Associate Professor in Life Sciences, Vice-Dean for Education
Ashwin Ramachandran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Joseph Sanfilippo
Assistant Professor
University of Illinois-Urbana Champagne
Albert Siryaporn
University of California, Irvine
Sven van Teeffelen
University of Montreal
John Werner
Professor
Wisconsin Lutheran College

Ph.D. Students

Ellen Acosta
Rachael Barry
Tom Bartlett
Edith Blackman
Connor Chain
Katelyn Chase
Sara Chuang
Jonathan Guberman
Mike Ingerson-Mahar
Hsin-Jung (Sophia) Li
Alex Lorestani
Jacob Marogi
James Martin II
Nick Martin
Allison Michaelis
Gabriel Moore
Nick Ouzonov
Phoebe Peña
Robert Scheffler
Conrad Shebelut
Geoff Vrla
Gauri Wadhwa
Bruce Wang
Maxwell Wilson
Assya Yakhnina

Princeton Undergraduate Thesis Students

Alex Akoto
Hayden Arthur
William Dixon
Minatulah Elzawawy
Shelley Heo
Gretchen Hoffman
Angela Howard
Bryce Ingram
Nitai Melnick
Matt Milke
Natsai Nyakudarika
Justin Ramos
Jenny Ross
Mike Salazar
Sandra Sequera
Bethany Sneathen
Hanna Soulati
Jon Turner
Joy Xie
Stevie Yang
Yapei (Rosie) Zhang

HHMI Summer Undergraduate Students

Samuel Anador
Elisheba Butts
Sadhbh Chafraidh
Rashalai Currington
Erica De Leon
Jason McSheene
Julia Meng
Tram Nguyen
Veronica Sumner
Sunil Yadiv

Research Assistants

Eric Chen
Research Assistant 2005-2007
Soodabeh Ghaffari
Research Specialist II
Leslie Kulick
Research Assistant 2009-2012
Angela Zipilli
Research Assistant 2007-2012