Leading Edge Associate Directory

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1	First name	Last name	Institution	Email	Position	Short research description	Biochemistry, structural biology and biophysics	Cell biology	Neuroscience	Evolutionary biology	Developmental biology	Stem cell biology	Immunology	Bioengineering	Cancer biology	Bioinformatics	Genetics	Microbiology	Chemistry and pharmacology	Systems biology

2	Julie	Van De Weghe	University of Washington	julievdw@uw.edu	Acting instructor	Cilia biology & ciliopathies		x									x
3	Sumru	Bayin	Gurdon Institute University of Cambridge	sumrubayin@gmail.com	Assistant Prof equivalent (Group Leader)	Age dependent regenerative mechanisms in the brain			x		x	x
4	Elena	Blanco-Suarez	Thomas Jefferson University	elena.blancosuarez@jefferson.edu	Assistant Professor	Astrocyte-mediated regulation of post-stroke plasticity and functional recovery.		x	x
5	Wenwen	Fang	UMass Chan Medical School	fang.wenwen@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	RNA sensing in innate immunity	x	x					x
6	Jessica	Verpeut	Arizona State University	jverpeut@asu.edu	Assistant Professor	Long distance neural circuits from the cerebellar cortex involved in social and flexible behavior			x		x
7	Agathe	Chaigne	Utrecht University	chaigneagathe@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Cell division dynamics		x			x	x
8	Gabrijela	Dumbovic	Goethe University Frankfurt	dumbovic@med.uni-frankfurt.de	Assistant professor	Long non-coding RNAs and RNA localization in health and disease		x		x	x	x			x		x
9	Melody	Campbell	Fred Hutch Cancer Center	melody@fredhutch.org	Assistant Professor	A structural and molecular basis for cell-cell communication and bidirectional signaling	x	x					x
10	Allison	Didychuk	Yale University	allison.didychuk@yale.edu	Assistant Professor	Herpesvirus macromolecular machines	x	x										x
11	Simone	Brixius-Anderko	University of Pittsburgh	sib51@pitt.edu	Assistant Professor	Targeting cytochrome P450 enzymes to treat human disease	x												x
12	Lauren	Rajakovich	Uinversity of Washington	ljraj@uw.edu	Assistant Professor	Chemical discovery in microbiomes	x											x	x
13	Rebecca	Adikes	Siena College	radikes@siena.edu	Assistant Professor	Cytoskeleton regulation during cell migration in vivo		x			x
14	Yadira	Soto-Feliciano	MIT	ysoto@mit.edu	Assistant Professor	Chromatin as a regulatory hub of transcription	x	x			x				x	x	x
15	Lindsay	LaFave	Albert Einstein College of Medicine	lindsay.lafave@einsteinmed.edu	Assistant Professor	Chromatin biology in lung cancer		x			x	x			x	x	x
16	Smith	Monique	University of California, San Diego	smith215@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Pain, addiction and empathy			x
17	Clarissa	Durie	University of Missouri	clarissa.durie@missouri.edu	Assistant Professor	Protein translocation across membrane in bacterial pathogens	x
18	Arianna	Baggiolini	Institute of Oncology Research (IOR), Switzerland	arianna.baggiolini@ior.usi.ch	Assistant Professor	Melanoma and oncogenic competence					x	x			x
19	Molly	Ohainle	UC Berkeley	ohainle@berkeley.edu	Assistant Professor	Cellular Barriers to Viral Infection				x			x					x
20	Elise	Savier	University of Michigan	elisesavier@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Contribution of the secondary visual pathway to vision			x
21	Andrea	Moffitt	Emory University	andrea.b.moffitt@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Genomic methods for liquid biopsies in cancer
22	Sweta	Agrawal	University of Virginia	sagrawal@uw.edu	Assistant Professor	Neural circuits involved in proprioception and motor control			x	x
23	Prerna	Malaney	Dartmouth University	prerna.malaney@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Role of RNA-binding proteins in cancer	x								x
24	Xintong	Dong	UT Dallas	xintong.neuro@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Antimicrobial peptide signaling at host-microbe interfaces			x				x					x
25	Jasmine	Nirody	University of Chicago	jnirody@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Adaptive motility in complex environments
26	Jeeyun	Chung	Harvard University	jchung@hsph.harvard.edu	Assistant Professor	Lipid regulation for cellular metabolism	x	x	x
27	Jennifer	Kong	University of Washington	jennkong@stanford.edu	Assistant Professor	Mechanisms underlying morphogen sensitivity and its role in embryonic development.	x	x			x
28	Anne	Draelos	University of Michigan	amw73@duke.edu	Assistant Professor	Real-time machine learning in systems neuroscience			x					x		x
29	Lexy	von Diezmann	University of Minnesota	lexy.diezmann@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Single-molecule dynamics of signaling molecules on DNA	x	x		x	x			x			x		x
30	Elle	Roberson	CU Anschutz	Roberson.e.c@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Uterine remodeling across the estrous cycle		x			x	x					x			x
31	María	Maldonado	University of California, Davis	mmaldonad@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	Structure and function of respiratory complexes	x	x
32	Cherry	Liu	Hood College	liuyc@hood.edu	Assistant professor	Primary cilia		x
33	Ruth	Franklin	Harvard University	ruthfranklin@fas.harvard.edu	Assistant Professor	Immune cells in tissue homeostasis and repair		x					x		x
34	Florentine	Rutaganira	Stanford University	funr@stanford.edu	Assistant Professor	Chemical tools to decipher the roles of signaling networks in multicellular origins.	x	x		x	x								x
35	Genoa	Warner	New Jersey Institute of Technology	grw4@njit.edu	Assistant Professor	Endocrine disruption and reproductive toxicology	x	x			x			x					x
36	Molly	Matty	University of Portland	mmatty1@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	The effects of microbes on animal behavior			x								x	x
37	Claudia	Vasquez	University of Washington	claudiagvasquez@gmail.com	Assistant Professor	understanding the architectural rules that cells use to build 3D tissue structures	x	x			x
38	Heather	Snell	Yale School of Medicine	heather.snell@einsteinmed.edu	Assistant Professor (incoming)	Cerebellar involvement in motor and non-motor tasks in health and disease		x	x
39	Caroline	Bartman	University of Pennsylvania	cbartman@princeton.edu	Assistant Professor (Incoming)	Metabolic fluxes in mouse tissues and tumors	x						x		x				x
40	Jeannette	Tenthorey	UCSF	jtenthor@fredhutch.org	Assistant Professor (incoming)	Evolution of antiviral defenses		x		x			x					x
41	Meike	van der Heijden	University of Virginia	meheijde@bcm.edu	Assistant Professor (incoming)	Electrical signatures of cerebellar movement disorders			x
42	Najla	Arshad	Yale University	najla.arshad@yale.edu	Associate Research Scientist	Regulation of immune responses by chaperone proteins of the secretory pathway	x	x					x		x			x
43	Jessie	Brown	Columbia University	jab2451@cumc.columbia.edu	Associate Research Scientist	single-cell genomics in relapsed acute leukemias									x					x
44	Mancy	Tong	Yale School of Medicine	mancy.tong@yale.edu	Associate Research Scientist	Inflammatory responses of endometrial cells		x			x		x
45	Nao	Nishida-Aoki	Waseda University	nnishida@aoni.waseda.jp	Lecturer	Extracellular vesicle transfer in tumor tissue models		x					x		x				x
46	Siva Sankari Iyer Mani	Sankaran	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	sivasank@mit.edu	Postdoc	Plant peptides modulating metabolism in bacteria.	x											x
47	Miriam	Schwalm	MIT	mschwalm@mit.edu	Postdoc	Molecular imaging strategies for whole brain readout of neural activity in different brain states			x					x
48	Supriya	Vartak	National Institutes of Health	supriya.vartak@nih.gov	Postdoc	Transcription factors and gene regulation	x	x							x
49	Chen	Cao	Princeton University	chencao@princeton.edu	Postdoc	Single cell transcriptome lineage map				x	x			x		x	x			x
50	Megha	Sehgal	UCLA	meghasehgal@gmail.com	Postdoc	Dendritic mechanisms in memory integration			x
51	Sarah	McCalum	Cedars Sinai Medical Center	sarah.mccallum@cshs.org	Postdoc	Glial enthusiast		x	x							x
52	Mugdha	Sathe	University of Washington/Howard Hughes Medical Institute	mugdha.s.sathe@gmail.com	Postdoc	Wound healing in skin explant		x					x	x						x
53	Leslie	Weber	Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	weberl@mskcc.org	Postdoc	Somatic microglia mutations in Alzheimer's disease		x	x		x	x	x		x				x
54	Shuvasree	SenGupta	University of Michigan	sreesg@umich.edu	Postdoc	Understanding the role of neutrophils in cancer		x					x		x			x
55	Dhivya	Kumar	University of California San Francisco	dhivya.kumar@ucsf.edu	Postdoc	Building the cilium, a cellular signaling organelle	x	x			x						x
56	Dana	Klatt Shaw	Washington University in St. Louis	shawd@wustl.edu	Postdoc	Immune regulation of natural spinal cord regeneration		x	x		x	x	x				x
57	Eva	Ge	University of California Berkeley	evajge@berkeley.edu	Postdoc	Transition metal signaling and metalloproteins	x								x				x
58	Qi	Cai	University of Texas at Dallas	caiqi0509@gmail.com	postdoc	Blood brain barrier modulation for drug delivery								x	x
59	Ipshita	Zutshi	NYU Langone Medical School	Ipshita.Zutshi@nyulangone.org	Postdoc	Sensory processing and memory within cortico-hippocampal circuits			x
60	Mary-Kate	Hayward	University of California San Francisco	marykate.hayward@ucsf.edu	Postdoc	Tissue tension immune reprogramming		x					x	x	x
61	Sebnem Ece	Eksi	OHSU	eksi@ohsu.edu	Postdoc	Tumor heterogeneity and evolution									x	x	x			x
62	Tingting	Zhou	McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT	ttzhou@mit.edu	Postdoc	Studying pathology of schizophrenia taking a vertically integrated perspective			x
63	Ania-Ariadna	Baetica	University of California San Francisco	aniaariadna@gmail.com	Postdoc	Feedback regulation of synthetic biological systems														x
64	Ana	Uzquiano Lopez	Harvard University	anauzquianolopez@fas.harvard.edu	Postdoc	Cerebral cortex development		x	x		x	x
65	Lu	Ling	University of California, Berkeley	ll657@berkeley.edu	postdoc	Mechano-biological regulation of organelles dynamics in obesity and cancer		x				x		x	x
66	Tatiane	Kanno	Cornell Univeristy	kannotatiane@gmail.com	Postdoc	Induction of embryonic axes by different compartments of the organizer					x	x
67	Elisabeth	Kugler	University College London	kugler.elisabeth@gmail.com	Postdoc	Biomedical image analysis at the interface of developmental and computational biology.			x		x					x
68	Swati	Gupta	Icahn school of Medicine at Mount Sinai	swati.gupta@mssm.edu	Postdoc	Studying synapse adaptation in striatum and in context of Parkinson's disease	x	x		x										x
69	Sezen	Meydan	National Institutes of Health	sezen.meydanmarks@nih.gov	Postdoc	Role of translation regulation in health and disease														x
70	Rebecca	Clements	University of Pennsylvania	rebecca.clements@pennmedicine.upenn.edu	Postdoc	Immune regulation during pregnancy		x					x					x
71	Manon	Valet	UCSB	mvalet@ucsb.edu	Postdoc	Tissue mechanics in zebrafish development				x	x
72	Vivian	Lee-Kim	Brigham and Women's / Harvard Medical School	vlee0@bwh.harvard.edu	Postdoc	Genetic variation in vascular diseases		x	x								x
73	Yajing	Gao	UCLA	YajingGao@mednet.ucla.edu	Postdoc	Cholesterol homeostasis in mucosal and tumor immunity		x					x		x
74	Norma	Kühn	VIB - NERF, Leuven, Belgium	norma.kuehn@gmail.com	Postdoc	Single-neuron computations in visuo-motor circuits triggering innate defensive behaviors	x	x	x		x			x		x				x
75	Ashley	Martin	University of Minnesota	aamartin@umn.edu	Postdoc	Striated muscle structure and function in health and disease states	x	x	x					x			x			x
76	Farners	Amargant	Northwestern	farnersamargant@gmail.com	Postdoc	Mechanobiology of the ovary		x			x
77	Megha	Rajendran	National Institute of Health	megha.rajendran@nih.gov	Postdoc	Metabolic dysfunction in Parkinson's Disease		x	x
78	Sarvenaz	Sarabipour	Johns Hopkins University	ssarabi2@jhu.edu	Postdoc	Computational modeling of receptor tyrosine kinase interactions in cells	x							x					x	x
79	Aphroditi (Didi)	Mamaligas	University of California, San Francisco	aphroditi.mamaligas@ucsf.edu	Postdoc	Neural circuits connecting interoceptive need with reinforcement			x											x
80	Joanna	Thomas	National Cancer Institute	joanna.thomas@nih.gov	Postdoc	Blood-brain barrier drug delivery in zebrafish		x							x
81	Dina	Navon	Rutgers University	Dina.navon.3@gmail.com	Postdoc	Genetic basis of fin, body, and face shape plasticity in response to diet in fish				x	x					x	x
82	Madelen	Diaz	University of Miami Miller School of Medicine	m.diaz50@umiami.edu	Postdoc	Cell stress and death after CNS injury		x	x
83	Yamhilette	Licon Munoz	University of New Mexico - Cell Biology & Physiology	yamhilette.licon@gmail.com	Postdoc	Cancer stem-like cells in Brain Tumor.		x	x			x			x
84	Jennifer	Landino	University of Michigan	landinoj@umich.edu	Postdoc	Rho and F-actin patterning in cytokinesis		x
85	Glennis	Logsdon	University of Washington	glogsdon@uw.edu	Postdoc	Human centromere sequence, variation, and evolution		x		x						x	x
86	Rebeca	San Martin	University of Tennessee, Knoxville	rsanmart@utk.edu	Postdoc	Prostate cancer microenvironment. Genome architecture		x							x
87	Rachel	Shahan	Duke University	rachel.shahan@duke.edu	Postdoc	Single-cell insights into organ development					x						x			x
88	Theresa	Loveless	University of California, Irvine	theresa.berens@gmail.com	Postdoc	Synthetic biology tools to track cell history		x			x			x	x					x
89	Christina	Fitzsimmons	National Institutes of Health	christina.fitzsimmons@gmail.com	Postdoc	RNA epitranscriptomics in health and disease	x	x							x	x
90	Jenna	Christensen	University of California, San Diego	jenna.r.christensen@gmail.com	Postdoc	Intracellular transport diversity across fungi and animal cells	x	x		x						x	x
91	Anna	Vlasits	Northwestern University	anna.vlasits@northwestern.edu	Postdoc	Circuit function and neurodiversity in the mammalian retina	x		x
92	Krista	Angileri	Cornell University	kma99@cornell.edu	Postdoc	Transposon control as a checkpoint for tissue regeneration				x	x	x	x			x	x
93	Catherine	Denning-Jannace	Duke University	catherine.denningjannace@duke.edu	Postdoc	Regulation of fungal metallohomeostasis	x	x										x	x
94	Anne	Martin	University of Oregon	anne.martin.neuro@gmail.com	Postdoc	Molecular mechanisms of synapse coordination		x	x		x						x
95	Aga	Kendrick	UCSD	aga.kendrick@gmail.com	Postdoc	Microtubule based transport	x	x
96	Priyanka	Joshi	University of California, Berkeley	prijoshi@berkeley.edu	Postdoc	Mechanisms of biochemical homeostasis in aging and age-related diseases	x	x	x					x	x	x		x	x	x
97	Christine	Vazquez	University of Pennsylvania	cvaz41@gmail.com	Postdoc	Central nervous system immune evasion strategies of emerging viruses							x					x
98	Katherine	Xue	Stanford University	katherinesxue@gmail.com	Postdoc	Microbial ecology and evolution				x						x	x	x		x
99	Shira	Weingarten-Gabbay	The Broad Institute	shirawg@broadinstitute.org	Postdoc	Viral non-canonical ORFs as a hidden source for T cell epitopes		x					x	x			x	x		x
100	Supraja	Varadarajan	Stanford University	suprajav@stanford.edu	Postdoc	Regeneration of visual circuits			x		x