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Kaushik Ragunathan
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology
Brandeis University
Email: kaushikr@brandeis.edu
Research interests: see below

 
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Melissa Seman
Graduate student (Molecular and Cell Biology)
BS, University of Wisconsin
Email: mseman at brandeis dot edu
Research interests: Using genetics to decipher the relationships between biomolecular condensates and gene expression

 
 
 
 
 

Basila Moochickal Assainar
Graduate student (Biological Chemistry)
Jointly mentored by Ryan Baldridge
Email: basila at umich dot edu
Research interests: Single molecule approaches to visualize protein retrotranslocation

 

Neha Arora
Graduate student (Molecular and Cell Biology)
BS, Cal Poly Humboldt
Email: nehaarora at brandeis dot edu
Research interests: Identification of novel silencing pathways in mammalian cells

 

Sumanth Kumar Maheshwaram
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD, Raman Research Institute
Email: sumanthkm at brandeis dot edu
Research interests: Single-molecule imaging of epigenetic silencing complexes in living cells

 

Amith Zafal Abdulla
Postdoctoral researcher
PhD, École normale supérieure de Lyon
Email: amithzafal at brandeis dot edu
Research interests: Mathematical modeling of epigenetic memory by tracing single cell lineages
Webpage: amithzafal.github.io

 

Emily Metcalf
Graduate Student (Molecular and Cell Biology)
BA, University of Cambridge
Email: emetcalf at brandeis dot edu
Research interests: Characterizing nucleolar regulation in mammalian cells

 

Dionysus Morris-Evans
Lab manager and Research Assistant
BS, Biochemistry, Brandeis University
Email: dionysusm at brandeis dot edu
Research interests: Single cell approaches to dissect epigenetic adaptation

 

Past lab members (2017- present)

Ajay Larkin (Graduate student, 2018-2024, currently post-doc at Teresa O’Meara’s lab - University of Michigan) 

Amanda Ames (Graduate student, 2019-2024, currently scientist at EnPlusOne Bio, Watertown, MA) 

Alex Levashkevich (Research technician, 2022-2024, currently MD/Ph.D student at Case Western Reserve University) 

Gulzhan Raiymbek (Senior Research Scientist, 2017-2022) 

Saikat Biswas (Post doctoral Researcher, 2017-2022, currently senior scientist at Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, CA) 

Gayathri Santanu (UROP student, 2019-2022, currently scientist at Thermo Fisher) 

Sumin Kim (Rotation student, Winter 2017, currently in Sami Barmada’s lab) 

April Kaneshiro (Rotation student, Spring 2017, currently in Neil Marsh’s lab)

Jenna Veenstra (Rotation student, Fall 2018, currently in Pat O’Brien’s lab)

Rosa Romero (Rotation student, Winter 2020, currently in Nils Walter’s lab)

Emily Ellinger (Rotation student, Winter 2020, currently. in Nils Walter’s lab)  

Christian Rizza (Biological Chemistry, Rotation student, Winter 2020)

Garret Chavis (Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Rotation student, Winter 2020, currently in Mike Sutton’s lab)

Alexandra Plemmons (Cell and Developmental Biology, Rotation student, Spring 2021, Currently in Puck Ohi’s lab)

Nidhi Khurana (Post doctoral researcher, 2018-2019)   

Hannah Lane (UROP student 2017-2018)

Christian Jones (UROP student 2017-2018)

Audrey Peerenboom (UROP student, 2018-2019)