Past Lab Members

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Alberto Polleri

Alberto came to our lab as a post doctoral fellow after receiving a degree in physics and provided the first quantitive model of Ca2+/Calcineurin/NFAT Signaling (Nature 2006). His modeling provided an understanding of this pathway in Down Syndrome and indicated that the triplication of the DSCR1(RCAN) gene and the Dyrk1a gene on chromosome 21 act […]

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Amy Radamacker

Amy was an immunology graduate student that worked to understand the mechanisms underlying the role of calcineurin/NFAT signaling in lymphocyte development.  She took over the work of Kirsten Cante-Barrett and later joined the McKinsey consulting company after leaving the lab and is now learning the ropes of the business world.

Laura Elias

Laura Elias

 Laura joined the lab as a post doctoral fellow after completing her graduate work in the lab of Arnold Kriegstein and carried out genomic and proteomic studies of the chromatin switch from npBAF to nBAF in the development of the nervous system. She also developed an efficient method of purifying neural progenitors and post mitotic […]

Lena Ho

Lena Ho

Lena was a Singapore A-Star student in the laboratory who pioneered genomic and proteomic studies of the mammalian SWI/SNF-like BAF complexes and discovered that ES cells have a specialized complex apparently devoted to pluripotency.  Her studies also dispelled several old biases about how chromatin remodeling proteins function.  She found that STAT3, an signaling transcription factor […]

Andrew Yoo

Andrew Yoo

 Andrew came to our lab after doing groundbreaking work in C. Elegans in Iva Greenwald’s laboratory.  He discovered a triple negative genetic circuit that controls the switching from the npBAF to nBAF complex.  Andrew showed that switch is initiated when miR9 and 124 repress BAF53a leading to the complete conversion of the chromatin remodeling complexes. […]

Nate Hathaway

Nate Hathaway

Nate Hathaway made the Chromatin Indicator and Assay strain which allows one to study in vivo chromatin dynamics in living cells.  He then worked with Oli Bell to develop methods to assay the memory of heterochromatin domains and devised methods to understand the features that regulate heterochromatin formation and dissolution.  More recently he has applied […]

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Wen Qi Ho

Wen Qi Ho was an A+ student from Singapore that studied the role of the nuclear kinase Dyrk1a in the development of the immune system. She discovered that this kinase plays an essential function in T lymphocyte development and she is continuing to study the underlying mechanism. She returned to Singapore to do her post […]

Wei Dong

Weidong Wang

Weidon Wang developed an effective method for purification of the mSWI/SNF or BAF complex and with his wife Xutong, cloned nearly all of its components. With Keji Zhao, Weidong found that it contained an actin like gene and also b actin. Weidong was the first to show that mammalian chromatin remodeling complexes are combinatorially assembled. […]