Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Alexander Ploss, Ph.D. aploss@Princeton.edu Research Interests:  Liver biology, human infectious diseases, animal engineering, immunology Alexander Ploss Biography »

Postdoctoral Fellows

	Lei Wei, Ph.D. NJCCR Fellowship Previous Institution: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Interests: Swimming, reading leiw@princeton.edu
	Tomokazu Tamura, Ph.D. Previous Institution: Osaka University  Interests: Motorcycling, jogging ttamura@princeton.edu
	Yongzhen Liu, Ph.D. Previous Institution: Peking University Interests: Ping pong, badminton yongzhen@princeton.edu
	Saori Suzuki, Ph.D. Previous Institution: University of Pennsylvania Interests: Yoga, reading, making sweets stamura@princeton.edu

Graduate Students

	Robbie LeDesma NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Princeton Center for Health and Wellness Award Previous Institution: Columbia University in the City of New York (B.A. Neuroscience and Behaviour, Concentration in Premedical Sciences)  Interests: Making music, comics and hot sauce rledesma@princeton.edu
	Emily Mesev (Co-advised with Jared Toettcher) Princeton Centennial Award Previous Institution: Grinnell College (B.A. in Biological Chemistry and English) Interests: CrossFit, writing, baking, reading emesev@princeton.edu
	Keith Berggren Princeton Francis Boyer Fellowship Previous Institution: University of Connecticut (B.S. in Biological Sciences, minor in Molecular and Cell Biology) Interests: Fishing, camping, sailing, jazz keithab@princeton.edu
	Stephanie Maya Previous Institution: University of Florida (B.S./M.S. Microbiology and Cell Science, minor in Bioinformatics) Interests: Swimming, dancing, soccer, colorguard smaya@princeton.edu
	Jiayu Zhang Previous Institution: Zhejiang University School of Medicine (M.Sc. in Cell Biology) Interests: Soccer, squash jiayuz@princeton.edu

Undergraduate Students

	Emma Guare '21 eguare@princeton.edu
	Vrinda Madan '21 vmadan@princeton.edu
	Megan Erdozain '21 erdozain@princeton.edu

Lab Manager

Brigitte Heller Previous Institution: Rutgers University (Chemistry and Genetics/Molecular Biology) Interests: Reading, knitting, hiking bh6@princeton.edu

Research Specialist

	Andrew Berneshawi Previous Institution: Emory University Interests: Cars, songwriting, cooking, fitness, technology arb@princeton.edu
	Thomas Cafiero Previous Institution: Rutgers University Interests: Soccer, running, cooking, reading tcafiero@princeton.edu

Visiting Students

Faculty Assistant

Mary Gidaro mgidaro@princeton.edu 609-258-8956

Alumni

Former Postdocs

Markus Von Schaewen, M.D. 2013-2015 (Now: Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany)
Julie Sellau, Ph.D. 2016 (Now: Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Diseases, Hamburg, Germany)
Yael Sharon, M.D. 2016-2017 (Now: Rabin Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel)
Qiang Ding, Ph.D. 2014-2018 (Now: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)
Florian Douam, Ph.D. 2014-2019 (Now: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Boston University, MA)
Elham Shirvani Dastgerdi, Ph.D. 2016-2019 (Now: Scientist at Johnson & Johnson, PA)

Former Graduate Students

Benjamin Winer, Ph.D. 2013-2019 (Now: Postdoc at University of California, San Francisco)
Jenna Gaska, Ph.D. 2013-2019 (Now: Medical Writer at Nucleus Global, NJ)
Ila Nimgaonkar, M.D/Ph.D. 2016-2020 (Now: Rutgers Medical School, NJ)

Former Technicians

Former Undergraduate Students

Alex Smith '15 (Now: Tufts Medical School)
Evelyn Siu '15 (Now: Simon-Kutcher & Partners)
Yentli Soto-Albrecht '16 (Now: University of Pennsylvania Medical School)
Michael Chang '16 (Now: Harvard Medical School)
Alexander Jafari '16 (Now: Tulane Medical School)
Tiffany Huang '17 (Now: University of Pennsylvania Medical School)
Hulai Jalloh '17 (Now: Johns Hopkins University Medical School)
Metodi Balev '18 (Now: Mount Sinai Medical School)
David Kim '18 (Now: Working under Manna Christian Fellowship)
Evelyn Wu '19 (Now: Working at Reach Out and Read, New York City)
Gabriel Lipkowitz, '19 (Now: Imperial College, London on Fulbright Scholarship)
Nicholas Archer '19 (Now: Working at Rockefeller University)
Raymond Guo '19 (Now: Baylor College of Medicine)
Leslie Chan '20
Celeste Claudio '20
Jacob Shteingart '20