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CSHL has long been recognized as a place for nurturing young scientists, with postdoctoral researchers being an integral part of the discovery process. The Laboratory’s postdoctoral fellows work in the labs of Principal Investigators, who conduct research within five areas—cancer, neuroscience, plant biology, quantitative biology and bioinformatics and genetics—in a very synergized and interactive way.

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Jean Albrengues

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis

Egeblad Laboratory

Tumor microenvironment, inflammation, Extracellular Matrix, Neutrophils, Fibroblasts

I am working on determining how inflammation and extracellular matrix remodeling modulate disease progression.

Curriculum Vitae

Xu An

Postdoctoral Fellow

Huang Laboratory

Balasooriya Balasooriya

Postdoctoral Fellow

Spector Laboratory

Sara Ballouz

Post Doc Computational

Gillis Laboratory

Leah Banks

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mills Laboratory

Prasamit Baruah

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sheltzer Laboratory

Walter Bast

Post Doc Computational

Albeanu Laboratory

Pascal Belleau

Post Doc Computational

Krasnitz Laboratory

Yael Berstein

Post Doc Computational

McCombie Laboratory

Kuhulika Bhalla

Postdoctoral Fellow

International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB)

Stillman Laboratory

DNA Replication, Cell-cycle regulation and networks, Genetics, Biochemistry, Functional genomics Mammalian in vitro reporter systems

I investigate human cell cycle interactome - by probing Pre-RC proteins for discovering new mechanistic/regulatory insights into DNA replication.

Curriculum Vitae

Sonam Bhatia

Postdoctoral Fellow

Spector Laboratory

Sonali Bhattacharjee

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Martienssen Laboratory

Epigenetics, DNA repair, RNAi, Synthetic lethality, Gene regulation

I study the epigenetic regulation of DNA repair.

Giulia Biffi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University of Cambridge, Ph.D.

Tuveson Laboratory

Pancreatic cancer, tumor microenvironment, tumor-stroma signaling, cancer-associated fibroblasts, signaling pathways

My goal is to understand how tumor cells activate the stroma in PDAC, and vice-versa, to identify key players to target as an anticancer strategy.

Curriculum Vitae

Amit Blumberg

Post Doc Computational

Siepel Laboratory

Christopher Bonham

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tonks Laboratory

Marion Bosc

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., University of Bordeaux, France.

Kepecs Laboratory

Behavioral neuroscience, decision making, animal metacognition

I study the neurobiology of confidence judgment in rats and mice using behavioral, inactivation and immuno-histological approaches.

Christian Bravo-Rivera

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine

Li Laboratory

motivation, reward-seeking, punishment-avoidance, ventral pallidum, lateral habenula

I investigate how projections from the ventral pallidum to the lateral habenula control motivation for seeking reward and for avoiding punishment.

Curriculum Vitae

Robert Bronstein

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tollkuhn Laboratory

Irene Casanova Salas

Postdoctoral Fellow

Trotman Laboratory

Hong Goo Chae

Postdoctoral Fellow

Albeanu Laboratory

Chen Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dos Santos Laboratory

Wei-Chia Chen

Post Doc Computational

Ph.D., Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Kinney Laboratory

Bayesian inference, Bayesian field theory, density estimation, survival analysis

We are developing new statistical methods for density estimation and survival analysis on small data sets.

Curriculum Vitae

Xiaoyin Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Columbia University, Ph.D.

Zador Laboratory

In situ sequencing, cortical projections, transcriptomics, single-cell, BARseq

I am developing high-throughput tools to associate neuronal gene expression, activity, and long-range projections at cellular resolution in situ.

Curriculum Vitae

Yushu Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow

Albeanu Laboratory

Quentin Chevy

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kepecs Laboratory

Tsung Han Chou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Furukawa Laboratory

Tae Mun Chung

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lyons Laboratory

Hannes Claeys

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 2014

Jackson Laboratory

plant biology, development, genetics, maize

I use genetics and molecular biology to study mechanisms determining maize inflorescence architecture.

Curriculum Vitae

Megan Crow

Post Doc Computational

Gillis Laboratory

Samantha Cyrill

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dos Santos Laboratory

Chand Parvez Danka Mohammed

Postdoctoral Fellow

Osten Laboratory

Juliane Dassler Plenker

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Bonn, Germany, Ph.D. (2014)

Egeblad Laboratory

innate immunity, neutrophil extracellular traps NETs, inflammasome, macrophages, dormant breast cancer cells

Define how the immune system promotes metastasis and how targeting the immune system can help to prevent it.

Curriculum Vitae

Cristiane de Santis Alves Rosa

Postdoctoral Fellow

Universidade Estadual Paulista, Ph.D.

Martienssen Laboratory

small RNA, RNA modification, pollen

I'm interested in small RNAs that play role in the male gamete to understand cell fate decisions and development in plants.

Curriculum Vitae

Edgar Demesa Arevalo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jackson Laboratory

Hanfei Deng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Li Laboratory

Jakub Dolata

Postdoctoral Fellow

Institution: Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland

Martienssen Laboratory

Chromatin, transcription, RNA modifications, splicing, RNAi

My studies are focused on the small RNAs, their post-transcriptional modifications and their potential role in the regulation of genome stability.

Curriculum Vitae

Roman Dvorkin

Postdoctoral Fellow

Shea Laboratory

Ahmed Elewa

Post Doc 3

Lee Laboratory

Elad Elkayam

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joshua-Tor Laboratory

Ela Elyada

Postdoctoral Fellow

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D.

Tuveson Laboratory

pancreatic cancer, tumor microenvironment, cancer-associated fibroblasts

I am studying the heterogeneity of cancer-associated fibroblasts in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma.

Curriculum Vitae

Mary Feigman

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dos Santos Laboratory

Miriam Fein

Postdoctoral Fellow

Beyaz Laboratory

Stephan Fischer

Post Doc Computational

Gillis Laboratory

Matthew Fisher

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Maryland, Baltimore - Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mills Laboratory

Cancer, Stem cells, Chromatin, p63

My work focuses on identifying novel p63 regulated chromatin remodelers that are critical for the survival of the cancer stem cell population

Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Fuerth

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lee Laboratory

Akihiro Funamizu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zador Laboratory

Alessandro Furlan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Li Laboratory

Yuan Gao

Postdoctoral Fellow

Vakoc Laboratory

Mikhail Genkin

Post Doc Computational

Engel Laboratory

Fabian Gerth

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yeh Laboratory

Debarati Ghosh

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lee Laboratory

Nicholas Gladman

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ware Laboratory

Sorghum, Crops, Genetics, Biochemistry, Plants

Elucidating molecular mechanisms behind fertility, grain yield, and other agriculturally-beneficial traits in the major global crop Sorghum bicolor.

Curriculum Vitae

Olivier Gschwend

Postdoctoral Fellow

Li Laboratory

Wuqiang Guan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Li Laboratory

Priyanka Gupta

Postdoctoral Fellow

Albeanu Laboratory

Rasmani Hazra

Postdoctoral Fellow

Spector Laboratory

Jianping He

Postdoctoral Fellow

Van Aelst Laboratory

Xueyan He

Postdoctoral Fellow

Egeblad Laboratory

Anat Hendelman

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lippman Laboratory

Diego Hernandez Trejo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Albeanu Laboratory

Longwen Huang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zador Laboratory

Yifei Huang

Post Doc Computational

Siepel Laboratory

Yuhan Huang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Vakoc Laboratory

Dhananjay Huilgol

Postdoctoral Fellow

Huang Laboratory

Stellar Hur

Postdoctoral Fellow

Vakoc Laboratory

Jonathan Ipsaro

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Joshua-Tor Laboratory

RNA interference, structural biology, biophysics, next-gen sequencing

Jon is investigating the molecular mechanisms of piRNA silencing by using a combination of structural, biochemical, and sequencing methods.

Curriculum Vitae

Anbalagan Jaganathan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mills Laboratory

Matt Jaremko

Postdoctoral Fellow

UC San Diego, Ph.D.

Joshua-Tor Laboratory

DNA replication, CryoEM, chromatin regulation

I am investigating the initial events of DNA replication through structural biology techniques.

Curriculum Vitae

Yinping Jiao

Post Doc Computational

Ware Laboratory

James Jung

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joshua-Tor Laboratory

Virginie Kergourlay

Postdoctoral Fellow

Krainer Laboratory

Gukhan Kim

Postdoctoral Fellow

Huang Laboratory

Munenori Kitagawa

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jackson Laboratory

Olaf Klingbeil

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

Vakoc Laboratory

cancer, genome editing, gene regulation, epigenetics

I am developing novel genome editing technologies to identify genetic vulnerabilities in cancer, with a focus on lineage dependencies.

Curriculum Vitae

Hideki Kondo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Huang Laboratory

Choon-Tak Kwon

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Seoul National University, South Korea

Lippman Laboratory

Crop Improvement, Genetics, Tomato, Plant Biology

I currently study how to improve tomato architecture for future agriculture by genome editing.

Curriculum Vitae

Seung Cho Lee

Postdoctoral Fellow

Martienssen Laboratory

Bo Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

L. Zhang Laboratory

Jiayun Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Fearon Laboratory

Qian Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kepecs Laboratory

Shujing Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kepecs Laboratory

Siran Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Wigler Laboratory

Yi Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Institution: National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, China Degree: Ph.D.

Huang Laboratory

Neuroscience, Motor Control

I would like to probe the role of cortical circuits in motor planning, execution, and storage using cutting-edge technologies.

Curriculum Vitae

Jayon Lihm

Post Doc Computational

McCombie Laboratory

Kuan-Ting Lin

Post Doc Computational

National Yang-Ming University (Taiwan), Ph.D. in Biomedical Informatics

Krainer Laboratory

Alternative Splicing, RNA, sequencing, dunqu1, computational biology

I focus on quantitative biology and transcriptomics technologies (e.g., alternative pre-mRNA splicing and long-read RNA-seq).

Curriculum Vitae

Bodu Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Spector Laboratory

Lei Liu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jackson Laboratory

Bin Lu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Vakoc Laboratory

Wai Kit Ma

Postdoctoral Fellow

Krainer Laboratory

Grinu Mathew

Postdoctoral Fellow

Trotman Laboratory

Katherine Matho

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Huang Laboratory

multi-scale imaging, cell-type, connectivity, circuits

Curriculum Vitae

Olivia Mendivil Ramos

Post Doc Computational

McCombie Laboratory

Kevin Michalski

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cornell University, Ph.D. in biochemistry

Furukawa Laboratory

electrophysiology, crystallography, ion channels

I'm interested in ion channels and receptors involved in neurological health and disease.

Curriculum Vitae

Koji Miyabayashi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Tuveson Laboratory

Andrea Moffitt

Post Doc Computational

Levy Laboratory

Hemanth Mohan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Huang Laboratory

Rodrigo Munoz Castaneda

Postdoctoral Fellow

Osten Laboratory

Adriana Munoz Jimenez

Post Doc Computational

Iossifov Laboratory

Simon Musall

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Zurich, Doctor of Natural Sciences (Dr. sc. nat.)

Churchland Laboratory

Systems neuroscience, Decision making, Cortical information processing, Psychophysics, Neural imaging

We combine calcium imaging and advanced behavioral paradigms to study cortical information flow and processing during perceptual decision making.

Curriculum Vitae

Farzaneh Najafi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Churchland Laboratory

Systems neuroscience, behavior, decision making, imaging, population activity

I use experimental and computational methods to study how distinct cell types in the mouse brain represent task variables during decision-making.

Curriculum Vitae

Arun Narasimhan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Osten Laboratory

Farhana Nasrin

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stillman Laboratory

Gal Nechooshtan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gingeras Laboratory

Ellen Louise Noren Lindback

Postdoctoral Fellow

Pedmale Laboratory

Kin On

Postdoctoral Fellow

London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK (currently Francis Crick Institute), Ph.D.

Joshua-Tor Laboratory

structural biology, ATPase, DNA replication

My research aims to understand the structure-function relation of DNA/RNA-processing enzymes using biochemistry, Cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography.

Curriculum Vitae

Torben Ott

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kepecs Laboratory

Huiwu Ouyang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Hammell Laboratory

Meng Ouyang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stillman Laboratory

Jean-Sebastien Parent

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. from the Université de Montréal in 2011

Martienssen Laboratory

Plant molecular biology, epigenetic, small RNA

Research focuses on plant small RNA molecules and their role in epigenetic reprogramming.

Curriculum Vitae

Sapan Patel

Postdoctoral Fellow

Gingeras Laboratory

Anirban Paul

Senior Research Associate

Huang Laboratory

Dennis Plenker

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Cologne, Ph.D. (2015)

Tuveson Laboratory

Pancreatic cancer, precision medicine, resistance, organoids

Generation of patient-derived organoids to investigate new treatment strategies and understand chemoresistance in pancreatic cancer.

Curriculum Vitae

Anna Posfai

Post Doc Computational

Kinney Laboratory

Yongjun Qian

Postdoctoral Fellow

Huang Laboratory

Mohammad Rahman

Postdoctoral Fellow

Krainer Laboratory

Nissim Ranade

Post Doc Computational

Krasnitz Laboratory

Ashlan Reid

Postdoctoral Fellow

Zador Laboratory

Jie Ren

Postdoctoral Fellow

Martienssen Laboratory

Benjamin Roche

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in Immunology at the Institut Pasteur, Paris, France.

Martienssen Laboratory

epigenetics, small RNA, quiescence, dormancy, reprogramming

My research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of cellular quiescence, in particular underlying the transcriptional reprogramming to G0 states.

Nikolay Rozhkov

Postdoctoral Fellow

M. Hammell Laboratory

Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Calgary, Canada Ph.D.

Pedmale Laboratory

Plant development, Arabidopsis, light signaling, genetics, epi-transcriptomics

Current research is to gain an understanding on how plants perceive and integrate the environmental signals to regulate their growth and development.

Curriculum Vitae

Thiago Santos Gouvea

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kepecs Laboratory

Christine Scaduto

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sheltzer Laboratory

Katharina Schmack

Postdoctoral Fellow

Kepecs Laboratory

Andrea Schorn

Postdoctoral Fellow

Martienssen Laboratory

Harrison Seidner

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stony Brook University, Ph.D.

Egeblad Laboratory

Biomedical Engineering, Intravital Microscopy, Metastasis, Tumor Microenvironment, Microcirculation

I am engineering systems for longitudinal studies of cancer metastasis, and the tumor microenvironment, using intravital multi-photon microscopy.

Yanliang Shi

Post Doc Computational

Engel Laboratory

Atsushi Shimada

Postdoctoral Fellow

Martienssen Laboratory

Timothy Somerville

Postdoctoral Fellow

Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, University of Manchester, Ph.D.

Vakoc Laboratory

lineage reprogramming, epigenetics, transcription factors, Pancreatic cancer

The goal of my research is to understand how the mis-expression of transcription factors promote the development and progression of pancreatic cancer.

Curriculum Vitae