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
	Jenna Gaska, Ph.D. Previous Institution: Princeton University (Ph.D. in Molecular Biology); Southwestern University (B.S. in Biology, B.A. in Classics) Interests: Caviar, gold jgaska@princeton.edu

Graduate Students

	Ila Nimgaonkar (M.D., Ph.D. Student) Previous Institution: Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Yale University (B.S. In Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology) Interests: Indian classical music (vocal), volunteering inimgaon@princeton.edu
	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 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

Undergraduate Students

	Leslie Chan '20 lc12@princeton.edu
	Celeste Claudio '20 cclaudio@princeton.edu
	Jacob Shteingart '20 jacobjs@princeton.edu
	Emma Guare '21 eguare@princeton.edu
	Vrinda Madan '21 vmadan@princeton.edu

Lab Manager

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

Research Specialist

Visiting Students

	Jiayu Zhang (MolBio Rotation Student) jiayuz@princeton.edu
	Javier Caballero-Gómez, DVM Current Institution: University of Cordoba, Spain jmgomez@princeton.edu

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)

Former Technicians

Mihai-Alexandru Pais, 2014-2015 (From: University of Freiburg, Germany)
Ann Cirincione, Summer 2015 (From: University of Maryland)
Cristiana Banila, Fall/Winter 2016-2017 (From: University of Oxford, UK)
Sam Hibbs, Fall/Winter 2017-2018 (From: University of Oxford, UK)
Jiayu Zhang, Fall/Winter 2018-2019 (From: Zhejiang University, China)
Oluwapelumi Kolawole, Summer 2019 (SURP) (From: Howard University)

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)