Principal Investigator
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Zemer Gitai
Principal Investigator
Research Interest: Bacterial cell biology: fundamentals of cytoskeletal dynamics, polarity, and mitosis |
Administrative and Support
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Ellen Brindle-Clark
Faculty Assistant
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Joseph Sheehan
Lab Manager
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Soodabeh Ghaffari
Research Specialist II
609-258-9418
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Ashwin Ramachandran
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Kelsey Hallinen
NSF Center for the Physics of Biological Function Fellow
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Graduate Students
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Molecular Biology
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Ellie Acosta
Awarded a New Jersey Alliance for Clinical and Tanslational Science Fellowship
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Connor Chain
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Jiayi Yuan
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Jacob Marogi
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Ziyang Chen
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Quantitative and Computational Biology
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Katelyn Chase
Awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship
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Bruce Wang
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Undergraduate Students
Minatulah Elzawawy '22
Molecular Biology
Shelley Heo '23
Molecular Biology
Alumni
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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John Werner
Awarded an NIH NRSA Ruth Kirchstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Associate Professor, Wisconsin Lutheran University
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Kim Cowles
Awarded an NIH NRSA Ruth Kirchstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Staff Scientist,UW-Madison
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Julia Bos
Currently: Research Engineer, Institut Pasteur
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Sven van Teeffelen
Awarded a Human Frontiers Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, University of Montreal
sven [dot] vanteeffelen [AT] gmail [dot] com
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Theresa Moser
Currently: Medical Writer, ETHOS Health Communications
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Eric Klein
Awarded an NIH NRSA Ruth Kirchstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Associate Professor, Rutgers University-Camden
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Albert Siryaporn
Awarded an NIH NRSA Ruth Kirchstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Assistant Professor, Physics & Astronomy
Assistant Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
University of California-Irvine
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Alex Persat
Awarded a Life Sciences Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Assistant Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
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Kathi Fröhlich
Awarded a DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Junior Research Group Leader, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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Randy Morgenstein
Awarded an NIH NRSA Ruth Kirchstein Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University
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Joseph Sanfilippo
Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois
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Benjamin Bratton
Awarded a Quantitative and Computational Biology Training Fellowship
Currently: Assistant Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
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Courtney Ellison
Awarded the Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
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Matthias Koch
Awarded a DFG Postdoctoral Fellowship
Currently: Professor of Biology, Texas A&M University
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PhD Students |
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Jonathan Guberman *10
Currently: Postdoc, University of Toronto
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Mike Ingerson-Mahar *10
Currently: ASM Policy Fellow
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Conrad Shebelut *10
Currently: consultant at Dean and Company
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Allison Michaelis *11
Currently: medical writer at Medergy
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Assya Yakhnina *13
Currently: Research Fellow, Harvard Medical School
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Rachael Barry *15
Awarded a Myhrvold-Havranek Innovative Thinking Graduate Fellowship
Currently: Assistant Professor of Teaching, University of California-Irvine
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Max Wilson *15
Awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship
Currently: Assistant Professor of Quantitative and Systems Biology, University of California Santa Barbara
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Nick Ouzonov *15
Currently: Founder and CTO, Geltor Inc.
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Tom Bartlett *17
Awarded an NSF Graduate Fellowship
Currently: Postdoc, Harvard Medical School
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Alex Lorestani *17
Currently: Founder and CEO, Geltor Inc.
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Sara Chuang *18
Currently: Science Teacher, The Dalton School
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Hsin-Jung (Sophia) Li *18
Currently: Postdoc, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne
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James Martin II *19
Currently: Postdoc, University of Chicago
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Geoff Vrla *20
Currently: Postdoc, University of California Berkeley
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Robert Scheffler *20
Currenlty: Postdoc, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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Edith Blackman *20
Currently: Consultant, Omnicom
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Gabriel Moore *21
Currently: Eagleton Science Policy Fellow, Eagleton Institue of Politics at Rutgers University
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Nick Martin *21
Currently: Postdoc, University of California San Francisco
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Princeton Undergraduate Thesis Students
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| Matt Milke | 2006 | Molecular Biology | |
| Natsai Nyakudarika | 2007 | Molecular Biology | |
| William Dixon | 2008 | Molecular Biology | |
| Jon Turner | 2009 | Molecular Biology | |
| Jenny Ross | 2010 | Molecular Biology | |
| Mike Salazar | 2010 | Physics | |
| Angela Howard | 2012 | Molecular Biology | |
| Gretchen Hoffman | 2013 | Molecular Biology | |
| Alex Akoto | 2013 | Molecular Biology | |
| Yapei (Rosie) Zhang | 2014 | Molecular Biology | |
| Bryce Ingram | 2015 | Molecular Biology | |
| Bethany Sneathen | 2016 | Molecular Biology | |
| Nitai Melnick | 2017 | Molecular Biology | |
| Stevie Yang | 2018 | Molecular Biology | |
| Justin Ramos | 2019 | Molecular Biology | |
| Sandra Sequera | 2020 | ||
| Joy Xie | 2022 | Molecular Biology | |
| Hanna Soulati | 2022 | Molecular Biology | |
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HHMI Summer Undergraduate Students
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| Veronica Sumner | 2006 | Dillard University | |
| Jason McSheene | 2007 | Rochester Institute of Technology | |
| Tram Nguyen | 2007 | Depauw University | |
| Elisheba Butts | 2008 | Spelman College | |
| Rashalai Currington | 2009 | University of Maryland, Baltimore County | |
| Samuel Anador | 2010 | CUNY, Medgar Evers College | |
| Erica De Leon | 2013 | University of Texas, Brownsville | |
| Sadhbh Chafraidh | 2013 | Trinity College | |
| Sunil Yadav | 2014 | Coppin State University | |
| Julia Meng | 2015 | University of Portland | |
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Research Assistants
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| Eric Chen | 2005-2007 | ||
| Angela Zippilli | 2007-2012 | ||
| Leslie Kulick | 2009-2012 | ||
Recent Publications
Contact
Gitai Lab
Department of Molecular Biology
Princeton University
355 Thomas Laboratory
Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544
p 609-258-9420
Faculty Assistant
Ellen Brindle-Clark
[email protected]
230 Thomas Laboratory
p 609-258-5419
f 609-258-6175
Lab Website
scholar.princeton.edu/gitailab