Principal Investigator
| Research Interest: |
Faculty Assistant
| Nicole Moody nm7023ATprinceton.edu |
Postdoctoral Fellows
| Matthew E. Black Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University Ph.D., Biophysics, Quantitative and Computational Biology Princeton University |
| Pedro de Souza Postdoctoral Research Associate, Chemical and Biological Engineering Ph.D., Chemical Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Jodi Kraus Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Molecular Biology Ph.D., Physical Chemistry University of Deleware |
| Meisam Zaferani Postdoctoral Research Associate, Molecular Biology Ph.D., Biophysics Cornell University |
Graduate Students
| Dylan Blohm Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University B.S. Biology with Honors, Minor in Physiology Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Kiana Golden Quantitative and Computational Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University B.S., Biochemistry and Bioengineering University of California, San Diego |
| Ryan MacElroy Chemical and Biological Engineering Graduate Program, Princeton University B.S., Chemical Engineering University of Pittsburgh |
| Courteney Malin Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University B.S. University of Georgia |
| Daniel Petito Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University B.A., Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Mauricio M. Gomez Lopez Biophysics Graduate Program, Princeton University M.S. in Physics California State University, Fullerton mg45ATprinceton.edu |
| Sanjay Kumar Keshava Physics Graduate Program, Princeton University B.S, Engineering Physics University of Colorado, Boulder sk5362ATprinceton.edu |
| Swati Sharma Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University B.Sc. (Research) Biotechnology Shiv Nadar University, India ss8065ATprinceton.edu |
Undergraduate Students
| Kasia Kirnie kirnieATprinceton.edu |
| Christopher Martino cm7613ATprinceton.edu |
| Sarina Hasan sarinahasanATprinceton.edu |
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
| 2014-2018 Jae-Geun Song(Ph.D., University of Vienna) – now group leader at Novartis |
| 2015-2018 Rachel Kadzick(Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania), NIH post-doctoral fellow – now research associate at University of Chicago and Northwestern University |
| 2018-2019 Xi Chen(Ph.D., Ulm University) – now Assistant Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology, China |
| 2018-2020 Mohammad Safari(Ph.D., University of Houston) - now Investigator at Seqirus |
| 2018-2020 Ya Gai(Ph.D., Stanford University) - now Consultant at Boston Consulting Group |
| 2018-2022 Brian Mahon (Ph.D., University of Florida) – now Senior Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb |
| 2019-2020 Brian Cook (Ph.D., University of California, Davis) - now Postdoc and Biochemist/Biophysicist, EM in training with Prof. Herzik at University of California, San Diego |
| 2020-2025 Sophie Travis (Ph.D., Princeton University) - now Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at University of Nebraska https://biochem.unl.edu/person/sophie-travis/ |
| 2022-2024 Ryungeun Song (Ph.D., Sungkyunkwan University) - now Assistant Professor at Chungbuk National University |
| 2023-2024 Ruoyu (Liam) Yang (Ph.D., Thomas Jefferson University) – now Post-doctoral fellow at UPenn |
Graduate Students
| Matthew King, *19 "Cue the Fireworks: Regulation of Branching Microtubule Nucleation" Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Rohit Pappu at Washington University in St. Louis |
| Raymundo Alfaro-Aco, *20 "Toward a molecular mechanism of branching microtubule nucleation" Scientist at Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine |
| Akanksha Thawani, *20 "Molecular mechanism and regulation of microtubule nucleation" Merck Fellow of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at University of California, Berkeley |
| Sagar Setru, *21 "The role of hydrodynamics in branching microtubule nucleation and the role of branching microtubule nucleation in acentrosomal spindle assembly" Applied scientist at JPMorgan Chase & Co. |
| Michael Rale, *22 "Dissecting the activation of microtubule nucleation by the γ-tubulin ring complex (γTuRC)." Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Susan Shao at Harvard Medical School |
| Brianna Romer, *23 "Elucidating how the gamma-tubulin ring complex (γ-TuRC) nucleates microtubules" Project Manager, Regulatory Affairs at Aleon Pharma |
| Bernardo Gouveia, *24 "Biophysics of spindle assembly and microtubule associated condensates" Post-doctoral fellow with Prof. Daniel Needleman at Harvard University |
| Venecia Valdez, *24 “Microtubule formation via the microtubule-associated protein HURP” Medical Writer at Alphabet Health |
| Collin McManus, *25
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Research Specialist and Lab Technician
| Victoria Crans Molecular Biology Graduate Program, Princeton University |
Senior Thesis Students:
| 2014-15 | David Octeau (class of 2015, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2015-16 | Marina Nogueria (class of 2016, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2016-17 | Elbegduuren Erdenee (class of 2017, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2017-18 | Aparna Raghu (class of 2018, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2018-19 | Jake Atkins (class of 2019, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2019-20 | Sarah Jun (class of 2020, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2019-20 | Natalia Brokate (class of 2020, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2020-21 | Fairuz Nawar (class of 2021, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2021-22 | Taraje Whitfield (class of 2022, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2022-23 | Mike Ruttlen (class of 2023, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2022-23 | Haley Tran (class of 2023, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2023-24 | Destiny Turner (class of 2024, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2024-25 | Amelia Osgood (class of 2025, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2024-25 | Santhosh Nadarajah (class of 2025, Molecular Biology major) |
| 2024-25 | Nabaa Al Hashimi (class of 2025, Chemical and Biological Engineering major) |