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Brett Babin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Brett received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2009. There he worked in the lab of Dr. Neil Forbes developing microfluidic devices to study the interactions between bacteria and in vitro tumor models. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2016 where he worked with Dr. Dave Tirrell and Dr. Dianne Newman. His thesis focused on the development and application of a method for time- and cell-selective proteomic analysis in bacteria. He used this approach to study protein synthesis by the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa under dormancy and biofilm growth conditions. Brett joined the Bogyo lab at Stanford in the fall of 2016. His current focus is on the roles of serine hydrolases in the physiology of pathogenic bacteria.
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Vinita Chittoor
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Vinita?s work focuses on uncovering the molecular pathobiology of LRRK2 in Parkinson?s disease. Her main project includes understanding the role of proteostatic stress in LRRK2-linked disease, with focus on autophagic dysfunction. Her efforts are also aimed at finding a reliable imaging technique for analyzing post-mortem brains from Parkinson?s disease patients.
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Connie Fung
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Connie received her B.S. in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics from UCLA, where she conducted research on how the eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii invades and replicates inside host cells in the lab of Dr. Peter Bradley. Subsequently, she obtained her Ph.D. in Microbiology & Immunology from Stanford University with Dr. Manuel Amieva. Her thesis research involved the use of high-resolution microscopy to study how the bacterium Helicobacter pylori establishes and maintains persistent colonization of the gastric epithelium. Connie joined Dr. Michael Howitt's lab as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2019 and is currently investigating how tuft cells, specialized taste-chemosensory cells, modulate mucosal immunity in response to intestinal parasites.
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Elias Roth Gerrick
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Eli received his B.S. in Microbiology and Immunology from U.C. Irvine in 2013, where he worked in the lab of Dr. Celia Goulding. He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2018 in the lab of Dr. Sarah Fortune, where he studied post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Eli joined the Howitt lab at Stanford in the summer of 2018, where he is studying the influence of protozoan members of the microbiome on intestinal immunity.
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Felix J. Hartmann
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Dr. Hartmann received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology from the University of Heidelberg, Germany and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland for his research on T cell effector functions in human autoimmune diseases. In 2017, he joined Stanford University as a postdoctoral fellow to study cancer immunology using highly multiplexed tissue imaging technologies. His research combines novel single-cell and imaging proteomic technologies with novel biological assays to reveal interactions of immune cells with their local environment and how this impacts clinical outcome in human cancer. Most recently, he has developed a novel approach that enables analysis of cellular metabolism in individual cells and with spatial resolution.
Dr. Hartmann has been the recipient of a Van Riemsdijk PhD Fellowship, a Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Scholarship (2016), a Novartis Foundation for biomedical research Postdoctoral Fellowship and a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) LongTerm Postdoctoral Fellowship. He has received numerous awards, including a Distinction Award for his Ph.D. Thesis (2016), the Pfizer Research Award (2016), and a Young Investigator Award from the American Association of Immunologists (2019). In 2020, he has received a Young Investigator Grant from the Helmholtz Association. -
Laurin Heinrich
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Laurin Heinrich, Ph.D. is a dedicated Postdoctoral Research Fellow specialized in neuroscience and neurophysiology. Driven by her passion to improve therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders, she seeks to uncover and understand the mechanisms underlying severe diseases such as Parkinson's. She thereby incorporates an interdisciplinary approach combining human iPSC modeling and CRISPR screening with molecular biological and novel electrophysiological techniques.
During a 6 months postdoctoral fellowship at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Laurin contributed to the development of a functional cortico-striato-nigral neuronal microcircuit using human-derived iPSC (2020). She completed her doctoral thesis in the lab of Prof. Dr. Carsten Duch at the Institute of Developmental Biology and Neurobiology (IDN) at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2016-2019), where she investigated the neuronal function of ?2? calcium channel subunits. She received her Master of Science with a major in Neurobiology from Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (2013-2015) and a Bachelor?s degree from the Technical University Kaiserslautern (2010-2013). -
Samuel Kimmey
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Investigating early human development with single cell proteomics to understand how stem cells make developmental decisions at the molecular level. To accomplish this, protein expression of key regulators is quantified simultaneously in single, differentiating embryonic cells to produce a high-dimensional map of transcription factor expression along a developmental axis. The generated highly multiplexed data is used to infer function and relationships of key regulators.
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Caleb Lareau
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Postdoctoral research fellow interested in computational biology, single-cell genomics, immunology, and machine learning.
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Tristan Lerbs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio 1997 - 2006: High school, Bonn, Germany
2007 - 2008: Police officer training, Hahn, Germany
2008 - 2015: Medical training, Heidelberg, Germany
2015 - 2016: Resident in General Surgery, Eschweiler, Germany
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Scott Lovell
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Scott received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield in the summer of 2013. As part of his bachelor?s degree he worked for AstraZeneca from Sept 2011 ? Aug 2012 as an organic synthetic chemist. In 2019 he earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Biology from Imperial College London where he worked with Prof. Edward Tate. His thesis focused on developing covalent inhibitors for KLK proteases to decipher their role in prostate cancer progression. Having joined the Bogyo lab in October 2019, Scott now works on developing selective inhibitors and substrates for serine hydrolases in cancer and pathogenic bacteria by using diverse chemical libraries and phage-display approaches.
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Katherine L. Lucot
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Katie is interested in translational genomics using animals as models for human diseases, with an emphasis on neurodegenerative diseases and early detection.
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Magdalena Matusiak
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly Interests My research focuses on revealing clinically relevant prognostic markers associated with myeloid cell biology in solid malignancies. I currently. lead two main projects: first, using single-cell RNA Sequencing and bulk tissue genomics to discover tumor-associated macrophage (TAM) diversity and establish their prognostic and predictive markers, second: using multiplex tissue imaging (MIBI) to unravel prognostic markers of spatial heterogeneity in the colon cancer.
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Solene Moulin
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio I am a very curious person who likes to understand how things work and I love to contribute to new discoveries that will help to cope with tomorrow?s challenges. After my studies at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm, I got specialized in plant science. I am interested in this research field because plants are critical for environment as well as for food and bio-energy production. In 2016, I joined CEA Cadarache for my PhD which led me to participate in a research program on hydrocarbon synthesis in algae. I really liked this project which was focusing on both reaching a bio-based production of hydrocarbons for fuel production and deciphering of the hydrocarbon synthesis pathway in algae. I have been leading research to assess the occurrence of this pathway in the different types of eukaryotic algae, its evolutionary history and its relevance for algal physiology. I am now going to study another evolutionary history that has led to a symbiosis between a diatom and a N-fixing cyanobacteria, the latest being on its way to become an organelle. Understanding the physiological relationship between the diatom and the cyanobacteria will help understanding nitrogen cycle and could lead to major innovations in farming.
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Dunja Mrdjen
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Bio Dr. Mrdjen received a B.Sc. in Molecular and Cell Biology and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa. During her M.Sc. research she investigated the imprinting of maternal immune experience onto offspring in mouse models at the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Molecular Medicine at UCT. Following her M.Sc. work, Dr. Mrdjen interned at the Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) at Biopolis, Singapore, and then moved to Zurich, Switzerland where she completed her Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of Zurich under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Burkhard Becher. Dr. Mrdjen's Ph.D. work involved the use of single-cell technologies like CyTOF mass cytometry to investigate the immune compartments of the murine brain at steady state and during different kinds of brain diseases.
With funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation and Novartis, Dr. Mrdjen's post-doctoral research at Stanford University with Prof. Thomas Montine and Dr. Sean Bendall focuses on understanding the cellular networks and spatial interactions between cells, pathology and genetic risk products that drive Alzheimer's disease in the human brain, by leveraging multiplexed ion beam imaging (MIBI) and computational approaches to data analysis.
