Congratulations to the 2021 Leading Edge Fellows!
2021 Leading Edge Fellows
Meike van der Heijden
Neural signals during dynamic cerebellar development
Postdoc, Baylor College of Medicine
Chelsey Spriggs
Host-pathogen interactions during viral entry
Incoming Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
Delia Shelton
Environmental Psychology Innovation Center (EPIC): solving grand challenges in environmental and human health
Incoming Assistant Professor, U. Miami
Mohini Sengupta
Neural circuits for motor control in the spinal cord
Postdoc, Wash U St. Louis
Rebeca San Martin
Microenvironment influence on the 3D genome of prostate cancer
Postdoc, University of Tennessee
Melissa Roth
Regulation and dynamics of photosynthesis and metabolism
Postdoc, UC Berkeley
Aleah Roberts
Molecular mechanisms of non-canonical B Cell Receptor endocytosis
Postdoc, NIH
Deepa Ramamurthy
Neural circuits for attentional selection in sensory cortex
Postdoc, UC Berkeley
Novalia Pishesha
Engineered nanobodies as immune modulators for autoimmunity and infectious diseases
Postdoc, Harvard and MIT
Sarah Pfau
The molecular and cellular bases of blood-brain barrier heterogeneity
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School
Nicole Perry-Hauser
The role of latrophillins in cell signaling and synapse formation
Postdoc, Columbia University
Jasmine Nirody
Adaptive locomotion through complex environments
Postdoc, Rockefeller University and University of Oxford
Anne Martin
Identifying how synapse coordination is achieved across a neural circuit
Postdoc, University of Oregon
Maria Maldonado
Structure and function of respiratory complexes and supercomplexes
Postdoc, UC Davis
Jennifer Kong
Mechanisms of morphogen sensitivity underlying congenital heart defects
Postdoc, Stanford
Stacey Kigar
Neuroimmunology of stress-induced behavioral changes
Postdoc, University of Cambridge
Shan He
Biogenesis of the eukaryotic CO2 concentrating organelle, the pyrenoid
Postdoc, Princeton University
Kathryn Gunn
Structure and mechanism of lipid metabolizing proteins
Postdoc, University of North Carolina
Lydia Grmai
Sex-biased regulation of steroid hormones in gonad development
Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh
Ana Gonzalez-Reiche
Molecular evolutionary dynamics of virus transmission and host-virus interactions
Postdoc, Mount Sinai
Lisa Eshun-Wilson
Mitochondrial quality control by diverse proteases
Postdoc, Scripps Institute
Julie Elie
The neuroethology of vocal communication in bats and songbirds
Postdoc, UC Berkeley
Andrea d'Aquino
Sustained delivery of GLP-1 receptor agonists for the treatment of diabetes
Postdoc, Stanford
Jeeyun Chung
Spatiotemporal regulation of lipid metabolism
Postdoc, Harvard Medical School
Jenna Christensen
Intracellular transport diversity in fungal and human cells
Postdoc, UC San Diego
Sisi Chen
Probing the multicellular mechanisms of drug response in heterogeneous immune cell populations
Postdoc, Caltech
Caroline Bartman
Developing new methods to measure in vivo tumor metabolism
Postdoc, Princeton University
Arianna Baggiolini
The developmental chromatin programs underlying oncogenic competence in melanoma
Postdoc, Sloan Kettering
Sweta Agrawal
Neural circuits underlying proprioception and motor control
Postdoc, University of Washington
Alice Accorsi
Development and regeneration of complex sensory organs
Postdoc, Stowers Institute
2021 New Faculty Fellows
Genoa Warner
Female reproductive toxicology and endocrine disruption
Assistant Professor,
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Tina Termini
Hematopoietic stem cell and vascular regeneration
Incoming Assistant Professor, Fred Hutch
Yadira Soto-Feliciano
Transcriptional regulation by chromatin adaptor proteins
Incoming Assistant Professor, MIT Biology and Koch Institute for Cancer Research
Megan Martik
Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate development and regeneration
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley
Josefina del Mármol
Structural mechanism of olfaction
Incoming Assistant Professor, stay tuned!
Tina Kim
Optical and molecular approaches to studying cortical neural circuits
Assistant Professor,
UC Davis
Maureen Cetera
Cell coordination during morphogenesis
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Simone Brixius-Anderko
Cytochrome P450 structure/function in human disease
Incoming Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
2020 Leading Edge Fellows
Christina Towers
Autophagy dependence in cancer cells
Assistant Professor
Salk Institute
He Tian
Directed evolution of biosensors for imaging neural activity
Postdoc
Harvard University
Monique Smith
Social communication of pain and elucidating the neural circuits of empathy
Assistant Professor,
University of San Diego
Naima Sharaf
Structure and function of the Neisseria meningitidis ABC methionine transporter system
Assistant Professor,
Stanford University
Dorian Rosen
Modulating cellular stress responses to improve outcomes in neurological disorders
Postdoc
Scripps
Lauren Rajakovich
Human gut microbial metabolism
Incoming Assistant Professor, University of Washington
Lindsay LaFave
Chromatin state in lung adenocarcinoma
Incoming Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Victoria Hung
Ribosome heterogeneity in gene regulation and cell fate
Postdoc
Stanford University
Erin Hisey
Neural circuits underlying learning and forgetting
Postdoc
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Zoë Hilbert
New modalities in host-microbe evolutionary conflicts
Postdoc
University of Utah
Liz Haynes
Imaging neural development across whole-embryo and single cell scales
Postdoc
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Farah Haque
Microtubule-based regulatory mechanisms underlying signaling
Postdoc
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jessica Gray
Single cell insights into evolution and development
Postdoc
Harvard Medical School
Aleena Garner
Neural circuits in memory-sensory interplay
Incoming Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Jaye Gardiner
Cancer-associated fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer
Postdoc
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Clarissa Durie
Visualizing bacterial secretion systems
Incoming Assistant Professor, University of Missouri
Anne Draelos
Real-time analysis and stimulation of neuronal populations
Postdoc
Duke University
Allison Didychuk
DNA packaging in herpesviruses
Incoming Assistant Professor,
Yale University
Danfeng Cai
Chromatin organization and transcription regulation
Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Liz Boydston
Specialized organelles for host-parasite interactions
Postdoc
Whitehead Institute
Heike Blockus
Linking synaptic specificity to neuronal circuit function
Senior Scientist
Verge Genomics
Cecilia Blengini
Chromosome segregation during female meiosis in mammals
Postdoc
Rutgers University
N. Sumru Bayin
Neural stem cell diversity and age-dependent regenerative processes in the brain
Incoming Group Leader
Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University
Sarah Ackerman
Neuron-glia dynamics in circuit development, refinement, and behavior
Incoming Assistant Professor,
Washington University School of Medicine