Lab AlumS

Erin Desmond '25

Pronouns: they/she

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Southborough, MA  🇺🇸

Member:  2022-2025      (Beckman Scholar 2023-2024)

Project Area: Optimization of B3H Assay

Current Position: Ph.D. student, University of San Diego

Sylvia Wood '25

Pronouns: she/they

Major: Biochemistry, Minor: Chinese

Member: 2023-2025

Project Area: Novel RNA-binding Proteins 

Current Position: Research Technician

Nay Won Lett '25

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Yangon, Burma 🇲🇲

Member: 2022-2025

Project: Bacterial KH-domain proteins

Current Position: Research Technician

Helen Washington '24

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Towson, Maryland 🇺🇸

Member:  2022-2024

Project Area: ProQ-RNA interactions

Current Position: Ph.D. student, PIBS program, University of Michigan

Alexa Veliz  '24

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Querétaro, México 🇲🇽

Member:  2021-2024

Project Area:  Hfq-RNA interactions

If I had a superpower, it would be: time travel because I love dinosaurs 

NC Sansom Botstein '24

Pronouns: they/she

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia 🇺🇸

Member: 2022-2024

Project Area: Novel RNA-binding Proteins 

Current Position: Clinincal Work, Cleveland Clinic

 Gus Welsch '23

Pronouns: he/him

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Huntingdon, Pennsylvania 🇺🇸

Member:  2021-2023

Project Area: Novel RNA-binding Proteins 

Current Position: Tufts STEM Education Masters Program

Suxuan (Linda) Wang '23

Pronouns: she/her

B.A, Biochemistry and Data Science, Mount Holyoke College

Hometown: Shenzhen, Guangdong, China 🇨🇳

Member:  2020-2024

Project Area:  RNA-encoded molecular memory and B3H assay development

Current Position: Research Technician, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Annie Williams '23

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biology

Hometown: Lexington, Massachussetts 🇺🇸

Member:  2020-2022

Project Area: RNA-chaperone Discovery 

Current Position: Clinical Research Coordinator, Mass General Hospital

Linh Nguyen '22

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry 

Hometown: Hanoi, Vietnam 🇻🇳

Member: 2019-2022

Project Area: Optimization of B3H Assay

Current Position: Ph.D. Student, Immunology, Duke University

Katherine Dailey '22

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Camden, Maine 🇺🇸

Member: 2019-2022

Project Area: ProQ-RNA interactions

Current Position: Ph.D. Student, BBS Program, Harvard Medical School

Amy Shiying Wang '22

Pronouns: she/her

Majors: Biochemistry and Computer Science

Hometown: Beijing, China 🇨🇳

Member:  2021-2022

Project Area:  B3H Assay Development and ProQ-RNA interactions

Current Position: Software Developer, Google

Aleah Larsen  '24

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Chemistry + Philosophy

Hometown: Waterloo, Illinois 🇺🇸

Member:  2021-2022

Project Area: RNA-chaperone Discovery 

Current Position: Mount Holyoke undergraduate, exploring research areas.

Sungeun Jo '22

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Siheung, South Korea 🇰🇷

Member:  2021-2022

Current Position: Ph.D. Student, University of Maryland

Salina Hussain '21

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biology

Hometown: Lusaka, Zambia 🇿🇲

Member: 2018-2021

Project Area: RNA-chaperone Discovery 

Current Position: Research Technician, Mass General Hospital

Oliver Stockert '21

Pronouns: he/him

Majors: Biochemistry, Music 

Hometown: Millburn, New Jersey 🇺🇸

Member: :2018-2021

Project Area: ProQ-RNA interactions

Current Position: M.D./Ph.D. student, University of Minnesota

Hannah LeBlanc '20

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Portland, Oregon 🇺🇸

Member:  2017-2020

Project Area: Hfq-RNA interactions

Current Position: Ph.D. student, Biology, MIT

Anh M. Tran '20

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry, Minor: Mathematics

Hometown: Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam  🇻🇳

Member:  2017-2020

Project Area: Hfq-sRNA interactions

Current Position: Ph.D. student, Cancer Biology, Baylor College of Medicine

Rachel Mansky '20

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biology

Hometown: Edina, Minnesota 🇺🇸

Member:  2017-2020

Project Area: Optimization of B3H Assay

Current Position: Research Technician, University of Minnesota

Amaka Onyewadume  '19

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Onicha-Olona, Delta, Nigeria 🇳🇬

Member :  2018 -  2019

Project Area: RNA-determinants of ProQ-RNA interactions

Current Position: Masters in Public Health, Georgetown University

Courtney Hegner '19

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry

Hometown: Pomona, New York

Member:  2017 - 2019

Project Area: Optimization of B3H Assay

Current Position: Ph.D. student in Immunology Program, Sundrud lab, Dartmouth School of Medicine

Smriti Pandey '19, Ph.D.

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biochemistry, Minor: Mathematics

Hometown: Kathmandu, Nepal 🇳🇵

Member: 2017 - 2019

Project Area: ProQ-RNA interactions

Current Position: Postdoc, Liu Lab, Harvard Medical School 

 (After Ph.D. in BBS program, Liu Lab, Harvard Mecical School)

Clara Wang '19

Pronouns: she/her

Major: Biology, Minor: Chinese

Hometown: Madison, Connecticut

Member: 2017 - 2019

Project Area: Optimization of B3H Assay

Current Position: Ph.D. student, Nachtergaele Lab, Yale 

(After Post-bac researcher, Hogg Lab, NIH)