Current Fellows

Project Title: Learning from Nature’s Extremes: Decoding Marine Mammal Iron Tolerance to Reveal Mechanisms of Cellular Resilience
Postdoc Mentor: Jennifer Burns
Award Sponsor: Anonymous
Affiliation: University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences
Email: kaitallen14@gmail.com

Project Title: Dissecting the molecular mechanisms of breast cancer initiation in BRCA1/2 mutation carriers
Postdoc Mentor: Joan Brugge and Eliezer Van Allen
Award Sponsor: Merck & Co., Inc.
Affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
Email: erik_bao@dfci.harvard.edu

Project Title: Predicting the future of gene flow in a changing ocean
Postdoc Mentor: Rachael Bay
Award Sponsor: Simons Foundation International
Affiliation: University of California, Davis
Email: anubishop@ucdavis.edu

Project Title: Unveiling Direct Retinal Neuron-Vessel Interfaces: A New Basis for Neurovascular Coupling
Postdoc Mentor: Xin Duan
Award Sponsor: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation
Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
Email: Mahima.Bose@ucsf.edu

Project Title: Dissecting Heterochromatin Structure and Function via Cryo-Electron Tomography
Postdoc Mentor: Geeta Narlikar
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
Email: siyuan.du@ucsf.edu

Project Title: Programmable spatiotemporal behaviors in nucleic acid systems powered by a temperature gradient
Postdoc Mentor: Erik Winfree
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology
Email: hayakawa@caltech.edu

Project Title: Discovery of new innate immune proteins conserved across the plant kingdom
Postdoc Mentor: Pamela Ronald
Award Sponsor: Simons Foundation International
Affiliation: University of California, Davis
Email: ehuiting@ucdavis.edu

Project Title: Decoding and Restoring Lysosome-dependent Mitochondrial Turnover to combat Neurodegeneration
Postdoc Mentor: Roberto Zoncu
Award Sponsor: Valhalla Foundation
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Email: jeanjacobs@berkeley.edu

Project Title: Development of CT cloning and CARVER, two DNA manipulation tools to accelerate heterologous expression and engineering of natural product pathways
Postdoc Mentor: Sean Brady
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: The Rockefeller University
Email: ckayrouz@rockefeller.edu

Project Title: Investigating the role of microbial contractile injection systems (CISs) in human health and disease
Postdoc Mentor: Min Dong
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: Boston Children’s Hospital
Email: Joseph.Kreitz@childrens.harvard.edu

Project Title: Determining developmental bases of neuronal electrical specialization: ion channels and electrical activity
Postdoc Mentor: Ellie Heckscher
Award Sponsor: Bachrach Family Foundation
Affiliation: University of Chicago
Email: lesser@uchicago.edu

Project Title: Targeting multiple myeloma through the midnolin-proteasome pathway
Postdoc Mentor: Xin Gu
Award Sponsor: MacMillan Family Foundation
Affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
Email: kevin_lin@dfci.harvard.edu

Project Title: Molecular evolution of butterfly adaptations to plant toxins
Postdoc Mentor: Noah Whiteman
Award Sponsor: Simons Foundation International
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Email: ctliu@berkeley.edu

Project Title: Mechanisms and consequences of immune aging in reproduction
Postdoc Mentor: Diana Laird
Award Sponsor: Anonymous
Affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
Email: tara.mcintyre@ucsf.edu

Project Title: Multi-scale investigation of plasticity and targeted reorganization of cortical auditory circuits mediated by psilocybin
Postdoc Mentor: Patrick Kanold
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Email: nmichel8@jh.edu

Project Title: Genetic and neural substrates of natural variation in juvenile play
Postdoc Mentor: Juan Ignacio Sanguinetti-Scheck
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Email: pkmonari@sas.upenn.edu

Project Title: Enhancing Chiral Light-Molecule Interactions with Surface Plasmons in Twisted Atomic Bilayers
Postdoc Mentor: Junyeong Ahn
Award Sponsor: Welch Foundation
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Email: sang.park@austin.utexas.edu

Project Title: Principles of interface polyspecificity of the IgG Fc domain learned with structure-guided protein language models
Postdoc Mentor: Peter Kim
Award Sponsor: Valhalla Foundation
Affiliation: Stanford University
Email: ypark95@stanford.edu

Project Title: Investigating the impact of stromal lipoproteins on brain metastases
Postdoc Mentor: Matthew Vander Heiden
Award Sponsor: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: rashan@mit.edu

Project Title: A tri-partite mechanism of Smc5/6 chromosomal association
Postdoc Mentor: Xiaolan Zhao
Award Sponsor: GSK
Affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Email: renz2@mskcc.org

Project Title: Innovating Chemical Biology Tools for Proximity Labeling
Postdoc Mentor: Yi Lu
Award Sponsor: Welch Foundation
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin
Email: jrui19@utexas.edu

Project Title: Resolving the interspecific genotype-phenotype landscape in Drosophila
Postdoc Mentor: Mark Rebeiz
Award Sponsor: Robertson Foundation
Affiliation: University of Pittsburgh
Email: omid.saleh@pitt.edu

Project Title: Crystal growth of Ln2Fe4Sb5 phases toward the study of novel quantum properties
Postdoc Mentor: Julia Chan
Award Sponsor: Welch Foundation
Affiliation: Baylor University
Email: kate_baumler@baylor.edu

Project Title: Resolving the roles of poly(A) binding protein in mRNA stability
Postdoc Mentor: Lori Passmore
Award Sponsor: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation
Affiliation: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Email: bcarrick@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk

Project Title: Characterization and mechanisms of antibiotic persister cell maintenance metabolism in Salmonella enterica
Postdoc Mentor: Jorge Escalante
Award Sponsor: Open Philanthropy
Affiliation: University of Georgia
Email: jcie@uga.edu

Project Title: Mitochondrial Pathogen Sensing Mechanisms for Cellular Immunity
Postdoc Mentor: Lena Pernas
Award Sponsor: IGI – Innovative Genomics Institute
Affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
Email: josedelgado@mednet.ucla.edu

Project Title: Biophysical and Immunological Divergence of IgM and IgD
Postdoc Mentor: Michel Nussenzweig
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: The Rockefeller University
Email: ideimel@rockfeller.edu

Project Title: Viral subversions of gene regulatory networks
Postdoc Mentor: Lacramioara Bintu
Award Sponsor: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation
Affiliation: Stanford University
Email: yfinkel@stanford.edu

Project Title: Olfactory coding strategies in Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes
Postdoc Mentor: Meg Younger
Award Sponsor: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation
Affiliation: Boston University
Email: tyhill15@bu.edu

Project Title: High-resolution mapping of the BAF interactome with novel chemoproteomic technologies
Postdoc Mentor: Tom Muir
Award Sponsor: Amgen
Affiliation: Princeton University
Email: jj6473@princeton.edu

Project Title: Role of lineage-specific cis-regulatory accelerations in transcriptional and functional diversity
Postdoc Mentor: David Savage
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
Email: nicholas.karavolias@berkeley.edu

Project Title: Mechanisms of accelerated aging in mosquitoes for vector and disease control
Postdoc Mentor: Leslie Vosshall
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: The Rockefeller University
Email: ykim04@rockefeller.edu

Project Title: Spatially resolved 3D genome architecture and whole transcriptome landscape to decode pancreatic cancer progression
Postdoc Mentor: Rong Fan
Award Sponsor: MacMillan Family Foundation
Affiliation: Yale University
Email: miao.liu@yale.edu

Project Title: Design and optimization of cRIPTACs for enhanced cancer specificity in overcoming BTK inhibitor resistance
Postdoc Mentor: Craig Crews
Award Sponsor: Merck Foundation
Affiliation: Yale University
Email: skye.montoya@yale.edu

Project Title: Elucidating the mechanism and regulation of V-ATPase assembly by a novel protein complex
Postdoc Mentor: Tom Rapoport
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: Harvard University
Email: christopher_nardone@hms.harvard.edu

Project Title: Discovery and characterization of bacterial anti-protist systems
Postdoc Mentor: Michael Laub
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Email: dinh_t_n@mit.edu

Project Title: Imaging the Mechanisms of cGAS-STING Innate Immune Signaling in Neurodegeneration and Aging
Postdoc Mentor: Zhijian Chen
Award Sponsor: Michael Brown Fellow
Affiliation: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Email: ethan.perets@utsouthwestern.edu

Project Title: Neural Correlates of Timing in the Entorhinal Cortex
Postdoc Mentor: James Heys
Award Sponsor: Simons Sfari
Affiliation: University of Utah
Email: jack.bowler@utah.edu

Project Title: Investigating lipid transport proteins involved in plasma membrane physiology and disease
Postdoc Mentor: Pietro De Camilli
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: Yale University
Email: sydney.cason@yale.edu

Project Title: Neural control of swimming and behavioral state switching in a genetically tractable model jellyfish
Postdoc Mentor: Brandon Weissbourd
Award Sponsor: Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institution of Technology
Email: karen521@mit.edu

Project Title: How feedback between cell interactions and emergent multicellular states shape the ecology of a patchy marine environment
Postdoc Mentor: Julia Schwartzman
Award Sponsor: Simons Foundation, (The)
Affiliation: University of Southern California
Email: daythoma@usc.edu

Project Title: Shedding Light on the Mechanisms Underlying Animal Magnetoreception
Postdoc Mentor: Christine Merlin
Award Sponsor: Welch Foundation (The)
Affiliation: Texas A&M University
Email: kmgoforth@tamu.edu

Project Title: The role of the enteric neuro-epithelium sensory hubs in food allergy
Postdoc Mentor: Daniel Mucida
Award Sponsor: Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Affiliation: Rockefeller University
Email: akodra@rockefeller.edu