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Professor Gary H. Karpen, PhD
Professor Gary H. Karpen, PhD
Principal Investigator
Professor, Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California @Berkeley
Senior Faculty Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Pronouns: he/him/his
Education: PhD, Genetics, University of Washington || BA Biology, Brandeis University
Research interests: structure, function and evolution of chromatin, centromeres, and heterochromatin
Email (@berkeley.edu): gkarpen
David Acevedo
David Acevedo
Lab Manager
Education: BS, Microbiology, University of California, San Diego
Email (@berkeley.edu): dacevedo9
Serafin U. Colmenares, III, PhD
Serafin U. Colmenares, III, PhD
Project Scientist
Education: PhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, Harvard University || BS, Microbiology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Research interests: heterochromatin organization and dynamics, CRISPR and optogenetic tools, DNA repair
Email (@berkeley.edu): sucolmenares
Varsha Rajshekar, PhD
Varsha Rajshekar, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Education: PhD, Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medicine || Integrated BSc and MSc, Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
Research interests: chromatin dynamics, nucleolus and heterochromatin, microscopy
Email (@berkeley.edu): srajshekar
Lucy Brennan, PhD
Lucy Brennan, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Pronouns: She / Her / Her
Education: PhD, Cornell University || BS, UC Santa Cruz
Research interests: chromatin polymer physics, single-molecule biophysics, phase-separation in the nucleus
Email (@berkeley.edu): ldbrennan
Shingo Tsukamoto
Shingo Tsukamoto
Coadvised PhD Candidate (Professor Mohammed Mofrad), Mechanical Engineering
Education: BEng & MEng, Mechanical Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Research interests: heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1), chromatin mechanics, mechanobiology
Email (@berkeley.edu): shingo-tsukamoto
Collin Hickmann
Collin Hickmann
PhD Candidate, Molecular & Cell Biology
Education: BS, Biochemistry, University of Oregon
Research interests: heterochromatin replication, organization, and dynamics
Email (@berkeley.edu): collin_hickmann
Jim Pesavento, PhD
Jim Pesavento, PhD
Visiting Scholar
Education: PhD, Biophysics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign || BS, Biochemistry & BS, Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research interests: chromatin, histone modifications, top down mass spectrometry, biosequestration
Email (@stmarys-ca.edu): jjp6
Roland Lacap
Roland Lacap
PhD Candidate, Molecular and Cell Biology
Education: M.Sc., Biology, California State University, Northridge
Research interests: intersection of development, epigenetics, and gene regulation
Email (@berkeley.edu): rlacap95
Sriya Cheruvu
Sriya Cheruvu
Visiting Student Researcher
Education: 5th Year at BITS Pilani, M.Sc. in Biology and BE in Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: genomics, genetic engineering, CRISPR
Email (@berkeley.edu): sriyac
Hannah Papoi
Hannah Papoi
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Education: 3rd Year Majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Research interests: nucleolus and heterochromatin organization, microscopy
Email (@berkeley.edu): hpapoi
Francis Do
Francis Do
Undergraduate Student Researcher
Education: 3rd Year Majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Berkeley
Research interests: chromatin organization and dynamics, phase separation, DNA repair
Email (@berkeley.edu): dofrancis
Lab Alumni
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Scholars
Name | Dates | Current Position | Current Institution
Kevin Cook | 1992-1996 | Senior Scientist | Indiana Univ., Bloomington
Beth Sullivan | 1993-1998 | Professor | Duke University
Ken Dobie | 1996-2000 | Consultant | Skyemar Consulting, LLC
Xiaoping Sun | 1996-2002 | Associate Professor | MD Anderson Cancer Center
Alexander Konev | 2000-2004 | Group Leader | St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
Patrick Heun | 2001-2005 | Senior Research Fellow (Faculty) | Wellcome Centre Cell Biology, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK
Sylvia Erhardt | 2003-2007 | Group Leader (Faculty) | ZMBH, Univ. of Heidelberg, Germany
Barbara Mellone | 2003-2008 | Associate Professor | Univ. of Connecticut
Akiko Minoda | 2005-2011 | Unit Leader (Faculty) | Riken Inst., Tokyo
Irene Chiolo | 2007-2012 | Associate Professor | Univ. of Southern California
Elaine Dunleavy | 2009-2013 | Senior Lecturer (Faculty) | National Univ. of Ireland
Aniek Janssen | 2013-2019 | Assistant Professor | UMC Utrecht, Netherlands
Grace Lee | 2015-2019 | Assistant Professor | UC Irvine
Weiguo Zhang | 2005-2022 |
Nicolas Altemose | 2021-2023 | Assistant Professor | Stanford University
Sasha Langley | 2004 - 2010 | Project Scientist | LBNL
Graduate Students
Name | Dates | Deg. | Current Position | Current Institution
Terence Murphy | 1992-1998 | PhD | NIH/NLM/NCBI
Keith Maggert | 1993-1999 | PhD | Associate Professor | University of Arizona
Katy Donaldson | 1994-2000 | PhD |
Kumar Hari | 1996-2001 | PhD | Director | cBio, Inc.
Robin Truelove | 1997-2000 | MS | Accelrys Pipeline Pilot Consultant | Truelove Consulting
Mike Blower | 1998-2003 | PhD | Associate Professor | Boston University School of Medicine
Jamy Peng | 2001-2007 | PhD | Assistant Member (Faculty) | St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
Matt Eckerle | 2003-2006 | MS | Senior Manager | Wayfair
Ivy McDaniel | MS |
Joel Swenson | 2007-2013 | PhD | Head of Data, Silicon Valley | Insight Data Science
Nicole Beier | 2009-2015 | PhD | Scientist, Cancer Genomics | Roche Molecular Systems
Wilbur Mills | 2012-2018 | PhD | Scientist | Minerva Technologies
Amy Strom | 2012-2018 | PhD | Postdoc, Brangwynne Lab | Princeton University
Research Technicians
Deborah Duricka, Mong-Huong Le, Janice Wahlstrom, Hiep Le, Cameron Kennedy, Alienor Baskevitch
Undergraduates
Marissa Chan, Tanya Daigle, Mayra Diaz, Dan Entrekin, Katie Friedman, Bali Gill, Cameron Kennedy, Kim Langhammer, Hiep Le, Hai Le Van, Albert Lu, Amy Lui, Tory McGrath, Issac Oderberg, Sarion Bowers, Thai Nyuyen, Elaina O'Hagan, Ryan Patterson, Lika Targan, Sanjay Tickoo, Jessica Trang, Shawn Turner, Jennifer Unsell, Vivienne Velasco, Elana Vershilova, Samara Weiss, Juliani Weko, Chris Yan, Fabrizio Rossi, Rachel Lim, Ann Kim, Ryan Kunitake, Hadi Ali, Sandra Wijekularatne, Tara Filsuf, Sharonya Shrivastava, Paula Belfiore, Sarah Zambrano, Matt Abrishamian, Jessica Ton, John Kim, Sylvia Lee, Aaron Cook, Hannah Hopp, Vladimir Shteyn, Sean Borden, Andrew Skora, Raymond Chetty, Braeden Ego, Jacqueline Liu, Annelot van der Meulen, Sean Borden, Thomas van Emden, Timothy Lee, Jenna Rode, Savana Zand, Kyle Lin, Tatum Ego, Robert Mason, Francis Do, Sryia Cheruvu
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