Principal Investigator
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Alexander Ploss, Ph.D.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
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Yongzhen Liu, Ph.D.
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Saori Suzuki, Ph.D. |
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Aaron Lin, Ph.D. (with Britt Adamson) |
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Glenn Hogan, Ph.D. |
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Jinchao Guo, Ph.D. |
Graduate Students
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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
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Emily Mesev (Co-advised with Jared Toettcher)
Princeton Centennial Fellowship
Previous Institution: Grinnell College (B.A. in Biological Chemistry and English)
Interests: Writing, weightlifting, cooking, reading
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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 |
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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 |
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Jiayu Zhang Previous Institution: Zhejiang University School of Medicine (M.Sc. in Cell Biology) Interests: Soccer, squash jiayuz@princeton.edu |
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Michael Schwoerer |
Undergraduate Students
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Daniel Beard '22 dbeard@princeton.edu |
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Debby Park '22 debbypark@princeton.edu |
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Mansi Totwani '22 mtotwani@princeton.edu |
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Olivia Sakaguchi '23 |
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Heidi Temple '22 htemple@princeton.edu |
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Emily Shoeman '22 emilyss@princeton.edu |
Lab Manager
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Brigitte Heller
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Research Specialist
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Thomas Cafiero |
Visiting Students
Faculty Assistant
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Mary Gidaro |
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)
Tomokazu Tamura, PhD., DVM. 2019-2021 (Now: Assistant Professor)
Lei Wei, Ph.D. 2017-2022 (Now: Assistant Professor)
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
Andrew Berneshawi 2018-2020 (Now: Stanford Medical School)
Former Visiting Students
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 School of Medicine)
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 (Now: PhD student at Stanford University)
Celeste Claudio '20
Jacob Shteingart '20
Emma Guare '21 (Now: Penn State College of Medicine)
Vrinda Madan '21 (Now: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)