Lab Members
Soichi Wakatsuki
Principal Investigator
PROFESSOR OF PHOTON SCIENCE AND OF STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
- (650) 926-4147 & (650) 723-8404
Soichi Wakatsuki is a Professor of Photon Science at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory where he recently initiated the Biociences Division, and Professor of Structural Biology, Stanford School of Medicine. He received his B.S and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from University of Tokyo, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from Stanford University in 1991. After postdoctoral studies on time-resolved x-ray crystallography of enzyme reactions in Oxford (1990 to 1994), he moved to Grenoble, France in 1994 to work at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) where he led Joint Structural Biology Group to develop high-brilliance x-ray crystallography beamlines and instruments, as well as several structural biology projects on protein transport. In 2000, Soichi moved back to Japan to start a new Structural Biology Research Center at KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization), Tsukuba, Japan, and later served as Director of Photon Factory (national synchrotron radiation facility) from 2006 to 2012. There he further developed x-ray beamlines and a large scale protein crystallization system, led initiatives to start three national projects on structural proteomics. Fascinated by new research opportunities in integrative bioimaging at Stanford and the world’s first hard x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) at SLAC, Soichi returned to Stanford in 2013. Soichi’s research interests include structural biology of post-translational modification and vesicle transport, structural biology of polyubiquitin recognition, synchrotron radiation and XFEL instrumentation, protein crystallography and small angle X-ray scattering, integrative multi-scale bioimaging.
Email: soichi.wakatsuki@stanford.edu
Samsuzzoha Mondal
Research Associate
SLAC and Structural Biology Department, Stanford University
Email: smondal@stanford.edu
Abdullah Kepceoglu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jointly with Dr. Pete Dahlberg, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Email: akepceoglu@stanford.edu
Suman Pokhrel
Ph.D. Student
Jointly supervised by Daria Mochly-Rosen, Chemical and Systems Biology
Email: spokhrel@stanford.edu
Ben Shapero
Earth System Science Ph.D. Student
Jointly supervised by Christopher Francis, Doerr School of Sustainability
Email:shapero@stanford.edu
Jacob Summers
Structural Biology Ph.D. Student
Structural Biology Deparment, Stanford University
Email: jasumme@stanford.edu
Fatma Betul Ertem Kuzucu
Graduate Student (Fulbright)
Structural Biology Department, Stanford University
Email: bertem@stanford.edu
Maximus Aldo Di Perna
Graduate Student (Coterm and Ph.D.)
Electrical Engineering
Email: mdiperna@stanford.edu
Iyshwary Seethai Vigneswaran Warren
Undergraduate Student
Bio-X Summer Internship Program
Email:iwarren@stanford.edu
Manat Kaur
Undergraduate Student
Stanford University
Shun Yokoi
Visiting Scholar
February 2023- February 2024
Ph.D. Student, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
(650)723-2919
Email: syokoi@stanford.edu
Tatsuro Chiyoya
Visiting Student Researcher
April 2024- May 2024
M.D. Student, Osaka University, School of Medicine, Japan
(650)723-2919
Email: tchiyoya@stanford.edu
Dorit Adar
Administrator- Structural Biology
Stanford University School of Medicine
Fairchild Bldg., Room D100
Stanford, California 94305
Work: (650)-725-5536
Fax: (650) 723-8464
Email: adar1@stanford.edu
Daniel Fernandez
Staff, Macromolecular Structure Knowledge Center
(650) 497-0109
Email: danilo@stanford.edu
Young Joo Sun
Collaborator, Postdoc of Vinit Mahajan Lab, Phthalmology, Stanford School of Medicine
Email: youngsun at stanford.edu
Jing Yang
Collaborator, Lab Technician of the Vinit Mahajan Lab, Ophthalmology, Stanford School of Medicine
Email: jingy6 at stanford.edu
Hasan DeMirci
Visiting Assistant Professor
I moved from SLAC to Koc University, Turkey in September 2019. My research focuses on i) structural studies of bacterial ammonia monooxogenase (AMO) and ii) structural biology of mutant prokaryotic ribosomes, where I am interested in characterizing the function and dynamics of these mutants, with an eye toward answering questions in structure and dynamics of ribosomes which are resistant to some of today's commonly-used antibiotics. My current research efforts also include methods development for ambient-temperature X-ray crystallography of large and challenging biomacromolecules at 4th-generation light sources like the Linac Coherent Light Source at SLAC
(650)723-2919
Email: Hasan_Demirci@stanford.edu, hdemirci@ku.edu.tr
Anea Serrano Vargas
Undergraduate Summern Intern, NIDDK R25 Hematoloty
Summer 2023
Undergraduate Student, University of California, Berkeley
(650)723-2919
Email: anea.serrano-vargas@scholar.smash.org
Ermias Mesafnt
Undergraduate Summern Intern, NIDDK R25 Hematoloty
Summer 2023
Undergraduate Student, University of California, Santa Cruz
(650)723-2919
Email: ermias.mesafnt@scholar.smash.org