Lab Members
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Marcia Haigis, PhD Professor Phone: 617-432-6865 Fax: 617-432-6932 marcia_haigis@hms.harvard.edu |
Marcia C. Haigis, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, a member of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging, and the Ludwig Center at Harvard Medical School. Following graduate training in Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biochemistry, Dr. Haigis studied mitochondrial metabolism during her postdoctoral research at MIT. She has contributed to understanding the role that mitochondrial sirtuins play in metabolism and disease. She has received a number of honors, including the Ellison Medical Foundation New Scholar Award, the Brookdale Foundation Leadership in Aging Award, and selection for the National Academy of Medicine's Emerging Leaders in Health and Medicine Program. |
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Olivia Rombold |
Olivia graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from The Pennsylvania State University. |
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Ilaria Elia, PhD ilaria_elia@hms.harvard.edu |
Ilaria was born in Italy and received her Ph.D. at the VIB of Leuven, in Belgium. During her studies, she investigated how metabolism defines a cancer phenotype and discovered two metabolic pathways that can be targeted to impair metastasis formation. As a postdoctoral researcher, she would like to link metabolic pathways to immune system regulation in order to identify effective therapeutic strategies. Her work is supported the European Molecular Biology Organization Fellowship What she is up to now: currently sleeping on the floor because Ikea hasn't delivered her bed yet. It's been 2 months. |
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Kiran Kurmi, PhD kiran_kurmi@hms.harvard.edu |
Kiran completed his Ph.D at Mayo Clinic in the lab of Taro Hitosugi, studying how oncogenic signals modulate mitochondrial metabolism. Kiran's current work focuses on areas of immunometabolism, primarily investigating various cell-intrinsic metabolic processes that can influence the performance of immune cell function with the goal of exploiting these alterations for clinical intervention. Kiran is a Gilead Sciences fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation. Favorite food: chicken chihuahua from Taco Bell
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Alison Ringel, PhD alison_ringel@hms.harvard.edu |
Alison is interested in studying the connection between metabolism and mitochondrial stress responses, with a focus on mitochondrial proteotoxicity. Her work is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Cancer Society. |
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Zhennan (Jeff) Shi, PhD Zhennan_Shi@hms.harvard.edu |
Zhennan (aka Jeff) completed his PhD at Fudan University in China, where he studied the regulation of RNA/DNA modifications in stem cells and cancer cells. In his postdoc, he is interested in the interplay between cellular metabolism and epigenetic regulation in different physiological and pathological processes, such as aging and cancer. Favorite underrated soccer player: Messi |
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Jiska van der Reest, PhD jiska_vanderreest@hms.harvard.edu |
Originally from the Netherlands, Jiska performed her Ph.D. research with Prof. Eyal Gottlieb at the Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute in Glasgow. She studied the reciprocal regulation of cellular redox balance & metabolism and developed a new methodology for proteome-wide analysis of cysteine oxidation in cells and tissues. In her postdoc, she will investigate how different cells in the tumour microenvironment influence each other’s metabolic state.
Still waiting for: the fifth sequel to Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus. |
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Conghui Yao, PhD Conghui_Yao@hms.harvard.edu |
Conghui completed her PhD at Washington University in St. Louis, where she worked on LC/MS based metabolomics of cancer cells. In her postdoc, Conghui is interested in studying how immune cell functions are comprised in the tumor microenvironment. |
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Haejin Yoon, PhD haejin_yoon@hms.harvard.edu |
Haejin completed her Ph.D research at Seoul National University Medical School, where she studied hypoxia signaling pathway in cancer and healthy bone. She is currently researching the Spends most of her money on: Uber rides between lab and home (total distance: 0.5 miles) |
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Elma Zaganjor, PhD elma_zaganjor@hms.harvard.edu |
Elma received her Ph.D. at UT Southwestern, where she studied signaling pathways that promote proliferation and migration of non-small cell lung cancers. She is currently interested in the role of metabolism in cellular response to stress. Specifically, she is interested in how mitochondrial sirtuins regulate fat metabolism and contribute to pathology. Elma is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association. Favorite scientist: Marcia Haigis |
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Jefte Drijvers jdrijvers@g.harvard.edu |
Jefte's work, mentored by Marcia Haigis and Arlene Sharpe, focuses on the metabolic regulation of T cell functionality, particularly in the context of immune responses against cancer. He is supported by a fellowship from the National Institutes of Health. Has a love-hate relationship with: chocolate (it's complicated). |
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Oscar Hernandez Murillo hernandezmurillo@g.harvard.edu |
Oscar hails from Guayaquil, a city on the coast of Ecuador. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he worked on ways to engineer substrate-specific and potentiated variants of the yeast disaggregase Hsp104 in the lab of James Shorter. In the Haigis Lab, Oscar is interested in understanding how different cellular states lead to metabolic reprogramming as to coordinate lipid homeostasis and how cellular pathologies arise when such processes go awry. When pipetting, he struggles with the fact that yeast is bae but mammalian cells are okay. |
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Liam Kelley liam_kelley@g.harvard.edu |
Liam did his undergraduate research in the laboratory of Bryan Ballif at University of Vermont, where he studied blood group systems. He is currently researching the interaction between tumor metabolism and urea cycle dysfunction in the context of hepatocellular carcinoma. In addition, he is interested in studying the contributions of proteomic changes to cancer metabolism. Hobbies: Editing Wikipedia |
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Giulia Notarangelo giulia_notarangelo@g.harvard.edu |
Giulia completed her undergraduate studies at Mount Holyoke College. After graduating, she spent two years at the NIH in the lab of Michael Lenardo, working on understanding the molecular mechanisms that control cellular responses, and how defects in such responses may lead to diseases of the immune system. She is currently interested in characterizing tumor-immune metabolic interactions in the tumor microenvironment. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. Most likely to: appear on the next season of the Bachelor. |
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Sarah Tucker sarah_tucker@g.harvard.edu |
Sarah completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her undergraduate research in the laboratory of Martin Burke was focused on synthesizing less toxic derivatives of antifungal natural products. She is currently interested in understanding mitochondrial sirtuin activity and substrate specificity in the context of metabolic diseases. Her work is supported by a fellowship from Joslin Diabetes Center. Favorite alpaca name: Alpacino |
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Samantha Wong sjwong@g.harvard.edu |
Sam received her BS in biomedical science at Imperial College London, studying infectious diseases. She then worked as a technician for a year in Bruno Reversade's laboratory before ending up at HMS. Her current work examines the enzymology of prolyl hydroxylase 3 and its role in lipid metabolism. Her studies are supported by the National Science Scholarship (PhD) from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) from Singapore. Life slapped her in the face when: She wanted to become a pilot but was denied because of her height. Getting a PhD was her back-up plan. |
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Shakchhi Joshi shakchhi_joshi@hms.harvard.edu |
Shakchhi received her undergraduate degree from Creighton University and graduated with a bachelor of science in neuroscience and psychology. As a research assistant, she is responsible for running and maintaining the mass specs in the lab. Known for: challenging people to spice-offs |