People

Martin Wühr
Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
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Icahn Laboratory, #246Washington Road,08544 Princeton, NJ, USA

Martin completed his Ph.D. in Systems Biology under Tim Mitchison at Harvard, where he explored the adaptation of cell division machinery to changing cell sizes in early vertebrate embryos. For his postdoctoral research, he collaborated with Steven Gygi, a pioneer in quantitative proteomics, and Marc Kirschner, known for his systems-level…

Joseph Crapse
Research Associate

Joseph obtained his BA in Molecular Biology at Princeton University. His undergraduate thesis, co-advised by the Wieschaus and Wühr laboratories, focused on exploring the applicability of the Arrhenius equation in describing the temperature dependence of animal development. Following this, Joseph pursued a Master's degree in Oncological…

Edward Cruz
PhD Student (Molecular Biology)

Ed is a graduate student in the Molecular Biology department, and he received his B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Nevada, Reno. As an undergraduate, his research focused on understanding how plant post-translational modifications (PTMs) regulate metabolism and signaling. Specifically, he developed a…

Wessley Ferguson
PhD Student (Molecular Biology)

Wess is a graduate student in the Department of Molecular Biology. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Biochemistry at Florida State University. As an undergraduate, he worked at the laboratory of Christian Bleiholder, focusing on method development for tandem-trapped ion mobility/mass spectrometry.

Alex Johnson
PhD Student (Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Alex is a graduate student in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department and is originally from North Carolina. He earned a B.S. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from North Carolina State University and a M.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University. As an undergraduate, his research focused on the use of…
Felix Keber
Research Scientist (PhD in Physics)

Felix obtained his PhD at the Technical University of Munich in the biophysics group of Andreas Bausch. Felix worked on in vitro systems of cytoskeletal proteins with a focus on the dynamics and self-organization in the presence of boundary effects.

Andrea Mariossi
Postdoc (PhD in Developmental Biology)

Andrea studied marine biology in Italy and Sweden and received his PhD from King’s College London. Andrea’s postdoctoral research reflects his passion for marine organisms as he investigates the regulation of gene expression during development and explores the relationship between mRNA and protein expression levels in ascidian embryos. Andrea…

Argit Marishta
MD/PhD student (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School/Molecular Biology)

Argit is an MD/PhD student in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and in the Princeton University Molecular biology department. He received his B.S in General Biology and Public Health at Keystone College and then trained as a post-baccalaureate research fellow at the Laboratory of Precision Omics, at NIH. As a fellow, he developed a…

Connor Nisbet
Undergraduate in Chemistry

Connor is an undergraduate majoring in Chemistry. He is interested in utilizing mass spectrometry to explore biochemical pathways. Connor is also a member of the Princeton Cross Country and Track and Field team.

Vyas Pujari
Undergraduate in Molecular Biology

Vyas is an undergraduate planning to major in Molecular Biology. He is interested in using quantitative techniques to answer questions in biology and chemistry.

Aleigha Reynolds
Undergraduate in Molecular Biology

Aleigha is an undergraduate currently planning on majoring in Molecular Biology. She is interested in exploring questions at the interfaces of biology, chemistry, and physics using quantitative methods.

Ananya Solanki
Undergraduate in Molecular Biology

Ananya is an undergraduate planning to major in Molecular Biology. She is interested in gaining a deeper understanding of cellular systems using quantitative methods.

Audrey Zhu
PhD Student (Chemical and Biological Engineering)
Audrey received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. During her undergraduate studies, her research leveraged dynamic light scattering to probe soft matter mechanics in biological systems. She is co-advised by Prof. Stanislav Shavartsman. 

Alumni

Chirag Kumar (Fellow at the CDC Office of the Director)

Bhoomika Chowdhary (Assistant Research Coordinator, Weill Cornell Medicine)

Alex Frese (Research Scientist, Next Century Spirits)

Jessica Dong (Undergraduate, Computer Science, Princeton University)

Meera Gupta (Postdoc, Rabinowitz Lab, Princeton University)

Eli Costa (PhD student, Stanford University)

Thao Nguyen (Research Scientist, Calico, San Francisco)

Maggie Orlova (PhD student, Vanderbilt University)

Jess Wang (Research Fellow, Sorensen Lab, Princeton)

Michael Stadlmeier (Research Scientist, Roche, Penzberg, Germany)

Donovan Cassidy-Nolan (MD student, Hey- Dalhousie University, Canada)

Lillia Ryazanova (Lab Manager, Myhrvold Lab, Princeton)

Heide Baron (PhD student, Harvard)

Nishant Pappireddi (Data Scientist, Natera)

Matthew Sonnett (Postdoc, Kirschner Lab, Harvard Medical School)

Lance Martin (Research Scientist, Patheon)

Eyan Yeung (Data Scientist, Hinge)

Jose Reyes (PhD student, University of Michigan)

Arjuna Subramanian (PhD student, Caltech)