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

 

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

 

Emily Metcalf
Graduate Student (Molecular and Cell Biology)
BA, University of Cambridge
Email: emetcalf@brandeis.edu
Research interests: Characterizing the regulation of rRNA expression in mammalian cells

 

Katelyn Strauss
Graduate Student (Molecular and Cell Biology)
BS, Boston College
Email: katelynstrauss@brandeis.edu
Research interests: Understanding the mechanisms governing epigenetic inheritance

 

Juan Serrano Jimenez
Graduate Student (Biochemistry and Biophysics)
BA, Universidad de Málaga
Email: juanserr@brandeis.edu
Research interests: TBD

 

Sarah Chiaradonna
Graduate Student (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
BS, University of Rochester
Email: schiaradonna@brandeis.edu
Research interests: TBD

 

Melissa Seman
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Brandeis University
Email: mseman@brandeis.edu
Research interests: Using genetics to decipher the relationships between biomolecular condensates and gene expression

 

Basila Moochickal Assainar
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jointly mentored by Ryan Baldridge
PhD, University of Michigan
Email: basila@umich.edu
Research interests: Single molecule approaches to visualize protein retrotranslocation

 

Sumanth Kumar Maheshwaram
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Raman Research Institute
Email: sumanthkm@brandeis.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@brandeis.edu
Research interests: Mathematical modeling of epigenetic memory by tracing single cell lineages
Webpage: amithzafal.github.io

 

Elizabeth Hemenway
Postdoctoral Researcher
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: ehemenway@brandeis.edu
Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of stress-induced adaptation in the polyextremotolerant fungus Aureobasidium pullulans.

 

Alex Latuda
Research Assistant
BS, Wake Forest University
Email: alatuda@brandeis.edu
Research interests: Investigating chromatin remodelers in S. pombe

 

Dobby
Research Assistant
BS, Stanfurred
Email: N/A
Research interests: Being a good boy, fetch, attending lab meetings

Past lab members (2017—present)

Dionysus Morris-Evans (Lab manager & research technician, 2023-2026)

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 (Postdoctoral 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 (Postdoctoral researcher, 2018-2019)   

Hannah Lane (UROP student 2017-2018)

Christian Jones (UROP student 2017-2018)

Audrey Peerenboom (UROP student, 2018-2019)