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

 

 


Dara P. Dowlatshahi

Research Associate

Email:darapd@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

Rose Knight

Research Assistant

SLAC

Email: vrknight@stanford.edu

Iyshwary Seethai Vigneswaran Warren

Undergraduate Student

Bio-X Summer Internship Program

Email:iwarren@stanford.edu

Manat Kaur

Undergraduate Student

Stanford University

 

Syb van den Bedem

Undergraduate student

Stanford University

Email: syb@stanford.edu

 


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


Irimpan Mathews

SSRL Staff Scientist

SLAC

Email: iimathew@slac.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