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Current members

Hannele Ruohola-Baker, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
hannele@uw.edu
Julie Mathieu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Comparative Medicine
jmathieu@uw.edu
Shiri Levy, Ph.D.
Acting Instructor
shiri007@uw.edu
Devon Ehnes, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
devon.ehnes@gmail.com

“I am using Sci-Seq to design rapidly developing salivary gland organoids for disease modeling and with translational potential.”

Damien Detraux, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
ddetraux@uw.edu

“Using designed proteins, I am interested in the direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into neurons by a manipulation of signaling pathways.”

Riya Keshri, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
rkeshri@uw.edu

“I am working on direct reprogramming of fibroblasts into skeletal muscle and cardiac muscles by targeting the signaling pathways with designed proteins.”

Yan Ting (Blair) Zhao, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
ytz@uw.edu

“I am dissecting the molecular basis of the Tie2 pathway to mitigate vascular diseases.”

Ashish Phal
Graduate Student
aphal@uw.edu

“I am using computationally designed proteins to investigate differentiation outcomes in vascular regeneration.”

Clara McCurdy
Graduate Student
cmccurdy@uw.edu

“I am designing proteins to control epigenetic modifiers and to selectively target signaling pathways.”

Yuliya Politanska
Graduate Student
ypolit@uw.edu
Anjali Patni
Graduate Student
apatni@uw.edu

“My aim is to identify the signaling factors crucial for the maturation of induced secretory ameloblasts to develop a tooth organoid model and investigate the underlying mechanism of amelogenesis imperfecta using an induced ameloblast 3D organoid model.”

Sadra Mohaghegh
Graduate Student
sadra77@uw.edu

“I am working on making iPSC-derived organoids as cellular models for palatal epithelium to study genetic underpinnings of cleft palate.”

Yen-chian Lim
Lab manager, Research Scientist
yenclim@uw.edu
Zachary Foreman
Lab manager, Research Scientist
zforem@uw.edu
Allison Yang
Research Scientist
xinrany@uw.edu

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Sahiti Peddibhotla
speddi@uw.edu
Rhea Acharya
rheaa2@uw.edu
Miriam Gonzaga
mpgonz@uw.edu
Akira D Morishita
akiram3@uw.edu
Oliver Watkins
olvmstr@uw.edu

Eliana Diep
ndiep2@uw.edu

Sarah Hong
sjhong1180@gmail.com

 
Melodie Chiu
melchiu@uw.edu
 
Shelley Caisley
scaisley@uw.edu
Olivia Zhu
siyu1016@uw.edu
Yasha Goel
ygoel@uw.edu
Khushal Thakor
khushal@uw.edu
Alexander Robinson
alex2245@uw.edu
Jason Joesoef
jjoesoef@uw.edu
Irene Chen
ice1101@uw.edu

 

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