Farah Abdul-Rahman

Gut-borne dissemination of opportunistic pathogens

Postdoc, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Megan Agajanian

Transcriptional regulation of mammary gland development

Postdoc, Stanford

Maureen Akinyi

Mechanisms of spliceosome and RBP interactions that regulate splicing fidelity.

Postdoc, Baylor College of Medicine

Gertrude Arthur

Mechanisms of Metabolic Dysfunction Associated Liver Disease (MASLD)-Induced Kidney Injury

Postdoc, University of Mississippi Medical Center

Udochi Felicia Azubuike

Immune cells in the tumor microenvironment

Postdoc, National Cancer Institute, NIH

Amanda Buch

Developing/deploying machine learning of brain/behavior/omics; precision neuropsychiatry

Postdoc, Weill Cornell

Almudena Chaves Perez

Metabolic reprogramming to tailor cell lineage specification in regeneration and cancer

Postdoc, Memorial Sloan Kettering

Ansa Cobham

Metabolic adaptations in the blind cavefish

Postdoc, Stowers Institute

Erin Flaherty

The role of the protocadherin gene cluster in neurodevelopment and
implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

Postdoc, Columbia University

Anita Gola

Immune-stem cell interactions in the epidermis

Postdoc, Rockefeller University

Juliana Hofstätter Azambuja

Molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying brain tumor progression

Postdoc, University of Pittsburgh

Heeun Jang

Neural circuit mechanisms for dehydration risk in aging mice

Postdoc, Buck Institute

Courtney Johnson

Watching the brain boot with new adaptive 4D microscopy methods

Postdoc, Janelia Research Campus

Riss Kell

Sea urchins as marine animal models of cancer resistance

Postdoc, Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute

Skylar King

The role of surfactant protein A in cardiovascular disease

Postdoc, University of Missouri School of Medicine

Maiko Kitaoka

Genome quality control in post-meiotic sperm development

Postdoc, Whitehead Institute

Krissy Lyon

Astrocyte-neuron interactions in neurodevelopment

Postdoc, Salk Institute

Bishara Marzook

Epithelial cell biology of Cryptosporidium infection

Francis Crick Institute

Taylor Medwig-Kinney

Developmental control of cell biological mechanisms

Postdoc, UNC Chapel Hill

Holly Merta

Organelle-cytoskeleton interactions in cell migration

Postdoc, UTSW

Vicky Moya

Scalable methods for mapping cell type-specific connectivity in the brain

Postdoc, Boston University

Cristina Nuevo Tapioles

Mitochondrial biology in RAS-driven cancers and RASopathies

Postdoc, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Lauren Penfield

Cell interactions during collective migration and phagocytosis

Postdoc, UC Santa Barbara

Danielle Porter

The neuronal mechanisms that control reproductive function and metabolism

Postdoc, University of Michigan

Varsha Rajshekar

4D nuclear organization of the nucleolus and heterochromatin

Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Katherine Savell

Molecular and cellular substrates of experience and memory encoding in the brain

Postdoc, NIDA, NIH

Laura Seeholzer

Role of sensory epithelial cells in airway physiology

Postdoc, UC San Francisco

Amanda Shaver

Genetic causes of resistance to anthelmintic compounds

Postdoc, Johns Hopkins 

Ashley Smart

Identifying the neural mechanism of interval timing 

Postdoc, Stanford University

Reika Tei

A generalizable design strategy for antigen-gated, engineered receptors and enzymes

Postdoc, Stanford University

Shuyu Wang

Behavioral and neural mechanisms of social attachment in prairie voles

Postdoc, UC San Francisco

Xinru Wang

Design proteins to regulate cell signaling

Postdoc, University of Washington

Kate Warde

Hormonal regulation of anti-tumor immunity

Postdoc, University of Utah

Lindsey Young

Expanding the Toolkit for Structural Cell Biology by Cryo-Electron Tomography

Postdoc, UC San Diego

Helen Yang

Descending control of walking in Drosophila

Postdoc, Harvard Medical School

Zara Weinberg

Decoding signaling to understand cellular behavior

Postdoc, UCSF

Simone Webb

Human embryonic development

Postdoc, Newcastle University

Sissy Wamaitha

Human germ cell lineage emergence

Postdoc, UCLA

Katia Troha

Mechanisms of asymptomatic infection

Postdoc, Salk Institute

Akanksha Thawani

Transposon structural biology and genome engineering

Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Simón(e) Sun

Neuronal epigenetic regulation by estrogen receptor beta

Postdoc, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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

Ashlan Reid

Electrical and molecular maturation of sensory cortex

Postdoc, New York Medical College/CSHL

Deepa Ramamurthy

Neural circuits for attentional selection in sensory cortex

Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Mónica Quiñones-Frías

Structural dynamics of neuronal endoplasmic reticulum and its contacts

Postdoc, Brandeis University

Joan Pulupa

Imaging Genome Organization and Transcriptional Regulation in Olfactory Neurons

Postdoc, Columbia University

Connie Phong

Mechanisms underlying robustness of developmental regulatory systems against environmental perturbations

Postdoc, Stanford University

Sarah Naomi Olsen

Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation by chromatin complexes

Postdoc, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Cameron Ogg

Neural circuits underlying behavioral flexibility

Postdoc, St. Jude

Xinping Li

Neural mechanisms underlying behavioral flexibility

Postdoc, Princeton University

Hannah Ledvina

Bacterial Innate Immune Systems

Postdoc, University of Colorado, Boulder

Elizabeth Lawrence

Microtubule dynamic instability in vitro

Postdoc, Vanderbilt University

Lisa Kursel 

Molecular evolution of meiotic proteins

Postdoc, University of Utah

Stacey Kigar

Neuroimmunology of stress-induced behavioral changes

Postdoc, University of Cambridge

Mandira Katuwal

Molecular mechanisms of long term memory

Postdoc, Harvard University

Miranda Hunter 

Spatial regulation of melanoma invasion

Postdoc, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Victoria Hung

Ribosome heterogeneity in gene regulation and cell fate

Postdoc, Stanford University

Tegan Horan

Regulation of crossover formation in meiosis

Postdoc, Cornell University

Farah Haque

Microtubule-based regulatory mechanisms underlying signaling

Postdoc, Massachusetts General Hospital

Katie Hatstat

Engineering bacterial signal transduction

Postdoc, UCSF

Emily Hager

Coordination of cell behavior in complex environments

Postdoc, Boston University

Eartha Mae Guthman

Plasticity of hormone-sensitive neural circuits

Postdoc, Princeton University

Jessica Gray

Single cell insights into evolution and development

Postdoc, Harvard Medical School

Pragya Goel

Signaling structure for dopamine coding in the striatum

Postdoc, University of Minnesota

Gina Gallego-Lopez

Metabolism of host-parasite interaction

Postdoc, Morgridge Institute

Raquel Fueyo

Function and regulation of endogenous retroviruses in early human embryogenesis 

Postdoc, Stanford University

Lam-Kiu Fong

Membrane protein function in Alzheimer's disease

Postdoc, UCSF

Christina Fitzsimmons

RNA epitranscriptomics in health and disease

Postdoc, Harvard University

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

Devon Duron Ehnes

iPSC-derived organoids to study development and disease

Postdoc, University of Washington

Laura Desban

Role of microbiota in olfactory-driven social behaviors

Postdoc, University of Oregon

Katherine Deets

Host-virus dynamics in Tetrahymena

Postdoc, University of Utah

Andrea d'Aquino

Sustained delivery of GLP-1 receptor agonists for the treatment of diabetes

Postdoc, Stanford

Roxana Coreas

Nanomaterial-Biomolecular Interfaces

Postdoc, UC Berkeley

Abigael Cheruiyot

mRNA translation in pancreatic beta cells

Postdoc, Joslin Diabetes Center

Kristyn Carter

Translational biomarkers in Diabetic skin ulcers

Postdoc, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Cecilia Blengini

Chromosome segregation during female meiosis in mammals

Postdoc
Rutgers University

Maigen Bethea

Gastrointestinal mechanoreceptors in the regulation of food intake

Postdoc, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Noëlle Antao

Developing 3D models to characterise a human microsporidian parasite

Postdoc, NYU

Krista Angileri 

Transposon control as a checkpoint during regeneration

Postdoc, Cornell University

Christine Vazquez

Central nervous system immune evasion strategies of emerging viruses 

Viral immunologist, GSK

He Tian

Directed evolution of biosensors for imaging neural activity

Associate Director, BioNTech

Dorian Rosen

Modulating cellular stress responses to improve outcomes in neurological disorders

Independent consultant

Shermel Sherman 

Estrogen-Responsive Brain-Jaw Circuit in Temporomandibular Disorders

Scientist, BrainXell

Sarah Pfau

The molecular and cellular bases of blood-brain barrier heterogeneity

Senior Scientist, Biogen

Jennifer Kan

Designing and engineering de novo protein functions

Managing partner, Climate Capital Frontier

Sisi Chen

Probing the multicellular mechanisms of drug response in heterogeneous immune cell populations

Senior Director of Platform Technology, Apertura Gene Therapy

Liz Boydston

Specialized organelles for host-parasite interactions

Product Manager
Ginkgo Bioworks

Heike Blockus

Linking synaptic specificity to neuronal circuit function

Senior Scientist
Verge Genomics

Sanchari Bhattacharyya

Genotype-phenotype relationship in bacterial systems

Senior Scientist, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research

Rachel Zwick

Epithelial tissue patterning and regeneration

Assistant Professor, NYU

Xiaoxue (Snow) Zhou

Signal transmission in the yeast mitotic exit network

Assistant Professor, NYU

Chuchu Zhang

Molecular and circuit mechanisms of nausea

Assistant Professor, UCLA

Katherine Xue

Ecology and evolution in the human gut microbiome

Incoming Assistant Professor, UC Irvine

Shira Weingarten-Gabbay

Viral non-canonical ORFs as a hidden source for T cell epitopes

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Clarissa Whitmire

Somatosensory neural coding

Senior Lecturer, University of Queensland

Erica Washington

Structure and function of microbial virulence

Assistant Research Professor, Duke University

Genoa Warner

Female reproductive toxicology and endocrine disruption

Assistant Professor, 
New Jersey Institute of Technology

Lexy von Diezmann

Regulation of DNA repair outcomes in meiosis

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Anna Vlasits

Circuit function and neurodiversity in the mammalian retina

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago

Claudia Vásquez

Physics of epithelial lumen stability 

Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Meike van der Heijden 

Neural signals during dynamic cerebellar development

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

Supraja Varadarajan

Role of postsynaptic target activity in visual circuit regeneration

Assistant Professor, UTSW

Christina Towers

Autophagy dependence in cancer cells 

Assistant Professor
Salk Institute 

Valerie Tornini

Chromatin modifiers in vertebrate development

Assistant Professor, UCLA

Tina Termini

Hematopoietic stem cell and vascular regeneration

Assistant Professor, Fred Hutch

Jeannette Tenthorey

Evolution of antiviral defenses

Assistant Professor, UCSF

Tigist Tamir

Defining the role of protein phosphorylation on metabolic enzymes

Assistant Professor, UNC

Cheyenne Tait

Invertebrate neurobiology and behavior

Assistant Professor, Marshall University

Jessica Stark

Engineering (Glyco)immunology

Assistant Professor, MIT

Chelsey Spriggs

Host-pathogen interactions during viral entry

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Yadira Soto-Feliciano

Transcriptional regulation by chromatin adaptor proteins

Assistant Professor, MIT

Marielena Sosa

Neural circuits of spatial learning and reward memory

Incoming Assistant Professor, CU Boulder

Heather Snell 

Cerebellar contribution to motor and non-motor disorders

Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine

Monique Smith

Social communication of pain and elucidating the neural circuits of empathy

Assistant Professor, UCSD

Janet Song

Genetic basis of human brain evolution

Incoming Assistant Professor, Harvard University

Natalia Shylo

Evolution of developmental mechanisms in reptiles and mammals.

Incoming Assistant Professor, Rowan University

Delia Shelton

Solving grand challenges in environmental and human health 

Assistant Professor, U. Miami

Naima Sharaf

 Structure and function of the Neisseria meningitidis ABC methionine transporter system

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Anusha Shankar

Avian physiological ecology (energetics, heterothermy) and transcriptomics

Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Hyderabad

Rachel Shahan

Single-cell insights into organ development

Assistant Professor, UCLA

Mohini Sengupta

Neural circuits for motor control in the spinal cord

Assistant Professor, Saint Louis University

Rebeca San Martin

Microenvironment influence on the 3D genome of prostate cancer

Assistant professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Elise Savier  

Contribution of the secondary visual pathway to vision

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Brittany Ross

Bacterial physiology during chronic and acute infection

Assistant Professor, Georgia State

Elle Roberson  

Molecular genetic mechanisms of adult uterine remodeling

Assistant Professor, CU Anschutz

Lauren Rajakovich

Human gut microbial metabolism

Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Kavita Rangan

RNA editing in phenotypic plasticity and adaptation

Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins

Novalia Pishesha

Engineered nanobodies as immune modulators for autoimmunity and infectious diseases

Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Adriane Otopalik

Mechanisms of behavioral flexibility and evolution

Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus

Molly Ohainle

Cellular Barriers to HIV Infection

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley

Nicole Perry-Hauser

The role of latrophillins in cell signaling and synapse formation

Group Leader, University of Glasgow

Lisa-Marie Nisbett 

Exploring the functional relationship between outer membrane biogenesis and lipid export pathways in mycobacteria

Assistant Professor, Cornell

Ally Nguyen

Differential gene requirements for cell division and genome organization

Assistant Professor, CU Anschutz

Jasmine Nirody

Adaptive locomotion through complex environments

Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Andrea Moffitt 

Genomic methods for liquid biopsies in cancer

Assistant Professor, Emory

Alexandria Miller

Structure and function of a SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein

Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Maria Mikedis

Stem cell regulation during spermatogenesis

Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children's

Maeve McLaughlin

Bacterial-Phage regulatory interactions 

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan-Flint

Anna Maurer

Understanding host-vector interactions to build better gene therapies

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Molly Matty

Microbiome influences on animal behavior 

Assistant Professor, University of Portland

Romila Mascarenhas 

Vitamin B12 trafficking and disease

Assistant Professor, University of Oregon

Anne Martin

Identifying how synapse coordination is achieved across a neural circuit

Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Megan Martik

Gene regulatory networks in vertebrate development and regeneration

Assistant Professor, UC Berkeleyr

Maria Maldonado

Structure and function of respiratory complexes and supercomplexes

Assistant Professor, UC Davis

Prerna Malaney

Role of RNA-binding proteins in cancer

Assistant Professor, Dartmouth

Yuan Ma

Develop imaging methods to visualize biomacromolecules and metabolites
in cells

Incoming Assistant Professor, Rice University

Xiaotang Lu

Developing methods for connectomic studies

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign

Glennis Logsdon 

The sequence, structure, and evolution of human centromeres

Assistant Professor, Penn

Theresa Loveless

Synthetic cells that record their own history

Assistant Professor, Rice University

Lindsay LaFave

Chromatin state in lung adenocarcinoma

Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Caitlin Kowalski

Resident fungi as gatekeepers of skin health

Incoming Assistant Professor, Dartmouth 

Jennifer Kong

Mechanisms of morphogen sensitivity underlying congenital heart defects

Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Tina Kim

Optical and molecular approaches to studying cortical neural circuits

Assistant Professor, 
UC Davis

Grace Kenney 

Uncovering new enzyme families in natural product biosynthesis

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Aga Kendrick

Intracellular transport regulation

Assistant Professor, Salk Institute

Heidi Kletzien

Mechanisms of age-related head and neck tissue dysfunction and head and neck cancer initiation

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Jessica Kelliher 

Host-pathogen interactions in the cytosol

Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin

Priyanka Joshi

Mechanisms of biochemical homeostasis in aging and age-related diseases

Assistant Professor, Georgetown

Chinyere Iweka

Circadian regulation of immune cell metabolism

Assistant Professor, Case Western

Erin Hisey

Neural circuits underlying learning and forgetting

Assistant Professor, Boston University

Liz Haynes

Imaging neural development across whole-embryo and single cell scales

Incoming Assistant Professor, UW Madison

Liangliang Hao

Engineering precision diagnostics for cancer

Assistant Professor, Boston University

Rose Hill

Mechanotransduction in unexpected places

Assistant Professor, OHSU

Zoë Hilbert

New modalities in host-microbe evolutionary conflicts

Assistant Professor, Boston College

Shan He

Biogenesis of the eukaryotic CO2 concentrating organelle, the pyrenoid

Assistant Professor, UW Madison

Kathryn Gunn

Structure and mechanism of lipid metabolizing proteins

Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University

Meghna Gupta

Peroxisomal fatty-acid transport and metabolism 

Assistant Professor, OHSU

Lydia Grmai

Inter-organ regulation of reproduction

Assistant Professor, Yale School of Medicine

Ana Gonzalez-Reiche

Molecular evolutionary dynamics of virus transmission and host-virus interactions

Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai

Aleena Garner

Neural circuits in memory-sensory interplay

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Jaye Gardiner

Cancer-associated fibroblasts in pancreatic cancer

Incoming Assistant Professor, Tufts University

Leonor Garcia-Bayona

Role of mobile genes in the community interactions of the intestinal microbiota

Assistant Professor, Stanford

Tahra Eissa

Neural and cognitive mechanisms of adaptive decision-making

Incoming Assistant Professor, CU Anschutz

Allison Didychuk

DNA packaging in herpesviruses

Assistant Professor,
Yale University

Clarissa Durie

Visualizing bacterial secretion systems

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri

Anne Draelos

Real-time analysis and stimulation of neuronal populations

Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Xintong Dong

Defensins and Mrgprs in skin immunity and itch

Assistant Professor, UT Dallas

Catherine Denning-Jannace 

Targeting metallohomeostasis for antifungal drug development

Incoming Assistant Professor, UNC Greensboro

Josefina del Mármol

Structural mechanism of olfaction

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

Joaquina Delás 

Noncoding genome regulation of developmental cell fate choice

Group Leader, University College London

Danfeng Cai

Chromatin organization and transcription regulation

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health

Jeeyun Chung

Spatiotemporal regulation of lipid metabolism

Assistant Professor, Harvard 

Jenna Christensen

Intracellular transport diversity in fungal and human cells

Assistant Professor, Northwestern University

Maureen Cetera

Cell coordination during morphogenesis

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Maria Cecilia Canesso

Cell-cell interactions driving gut inflammation and tolerance

Incoming Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein

Simone Brixius-Anderko

Cytochrome P450 structure/function in human disease

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Sarah Bowling 

Lineage tracing in early mouse development

Assistant Professor, Stanford University

Ewa Bomba-Warczak

Mitochondrial fidelity in mammalian neurons

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylania

N. Sumru Bayin

Neural stem cell diversity and age-dependent regenerative processes in the brain

Group Leader
Gurdon Institute, Cambridge University

Caroline Bartman

Developing new methods to measure in vivo tumor metabolism

Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Arianna Baggiolini

The developmental chromatin programs underlying oncogenic competence in melanoma

Group Leader, Institute of Oncology Research

Berfin Azizoğlu 

Vascularization in organ development and regeneration

Assistant Professor, UNC

Kilan Ashad-Bishop

Social and structural determinants of cancer disparities

Assistant Professor, University of Miami

Sweta Agrawal

Neural circuits underlying proprioception and motor control

Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech

Rebecca Adikes

Cell migration in vivo

Assistant Professor, Siena College

Sarah Ackerman

Neuron-glia dynamics in circuit development, refinement, and behavior

Assistant Professor,
Washington University School of Medicine

Alice Accorsi

Development and regeneration of complex sensory organs

Assistant Professor, UC Davis