Our Science – LCBG Website
Organization
Chiefs |
| Glenn Merlino, Ph.D. |
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| Stuart H. Yuspa, M.D. |
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Deputy Laboratory Chief |
| Beverly Mock, Ph.D. |
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Office of the Chief Staff |
| Toshiba A. Bell, Administrative Assistant |
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| Brandon Boldt, Summer Student |
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| Abraham Chowdhury, Special Volunteer |
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| Jason Cui, Special Volunteer |
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| Agnes Czikora, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| Patricia K. Farrell, Administrative Laboratory Manager |
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| Benjamin Gamache, Summer Student |
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| Hongfeng Gou, Special Volunteer |
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| Nancy Guan, Summer Student |
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| Siping He, Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| David Hicks, Administrative Laboratory Manager |
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| Woei-Jyh Lee, Special Volunteer |
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| Brisca Lee, Summer Student |
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| Luanne Lukes, B.S., Technical Laboratory Manager |
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| Ariadna Marrogi, Special Volunteer |
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| Eryney Marrogi, Special Volunteer |
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| Patricia A. Martone, Administrative Laboratory Manager |
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| Helen Michael, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| Dong Min, Special Volunteer |
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| Alleyah Miner, Special Volunteer |
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| Nellie Moshkovich, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| Elisa Paolicchi, Special Volunteer |
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| Weldon A. Payne Jr., Program Assistant |
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| Nan Roche, Technical Laboratory Manager |
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| Larisa Romanova, Research Assistant (Contr) |
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| Andrew Ryscavage, B.A., M.A., Technical Laboratory Manager |
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| Justin Saunders, Summer Student |
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| Kurt Williams, Special Volunteer |
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| Amy Winstead, Summer Student |
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| Josephine Wu, Summer Student |
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| Amadeus Zhu, Summer Student |
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Investigators |
| Glenn Merlino, Ph.D., Laboratory Chief Head, Cancer Modeling Section |
Research Team: |
| • Jason Cho, Guest Researcher |
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| • Chi-Ping Day, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Prasun J. Mishra, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Pravin Mishra, M.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Jennifer Rieker, Biological Laboratory Technician |
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| • Willie Wilson III, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Yanlin Yu, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • M. Raza Zaidi, Ph.D., Research Fellow |
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| Stuart H. Yuspa, M.D., Laboratory Co-Chief Head, In Vitro Pathogenesis Section |
Research Team: |
| • Joanna Anders, M.S., Biological Laboratory Technician |
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| • Megan Ansbro, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Christophe Cataisson, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Caroline Garber, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Alexandra Gabrielle Hahn, Summer Student |
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| • Kasey L Jividen, B.S., Special Volunteer |
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| • Christopher G Keith, Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Luowei Li, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Ulrike Lichti, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Mariam Malik, Ph.D., Research Fellow |
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| • Francesca Mascia, Ph.D., Research Fellow |
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| • Vanesa Sanchez, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Anjali Shukla, Ph.D., Research Fellow |
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| • Mary Ann Stepp, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Padmakumar Chellammal Velayuthan, Ph.D., Research Fellow |
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| • Lisa Wright, B.S., Biological Laboratory Technician |
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| Beverly Mock, Ph.D., Deputy Laboratory Chief Head, Cancer Genetics Section |
Research Team: |
| • Joy Gary, D.V.M., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • John K. Simmons, B.S., Predoctoral Fellow |
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| • Dena Tran, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Ke Zhang, Ph.D., Senior Research Assistant |
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| • Shuling Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| Peter M. Blumberg, Ph.D., Senior Investigator Head, Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Promotion Section |
Research Team: |
| • Ian Deandrea-Lazarus, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Timothy Esch, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Tamas Geczy, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Colin S Hill, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Noemi Kedei, M.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Jessica Kelsey, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Nancy Lewin, B.S., Senior Research Assistant |
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| • Daniel J. Lundberg, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Larry Pearce, B.S., Biological Laboratory Technician |
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| • Jing Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| Jeffrey E. Green, M.D., Senior Investigator Head, Transgenic Oncogenesis and Genomics Section |
Research Team: |
| • Olga Aprelikova, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Christina Bennett, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Constance Brignatz-guittard, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Lara El Touny, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Joseph N Kim, Special Volunteer |
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| • Ting-Hu Qiu, Ph.D., Research Biologist |
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| • Christy Tomlinson, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| Jing Huang, Ph.D., Investigator Head, Cancer and Stem Cell Epigenetics Section |
Research Team: |
| • Yunlong He, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Shunlin Jiang, M.D., Research Assistant |
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| • Charles Y. Li, Summer Student |
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| • Mangmang Li, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Min Hwa Shin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Mudit Verma, Summer Student |
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| Kent W. Hunter, Ph.D., Senior Investigator Head, Metastasis Susceptibility Section |
Research Team: |
| • Jude Alsarraj, Ph.D., Research Fellow |
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| • Ling Bai, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Farhoud Faraji, Guest Researcher |
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| • Thomas Geiger, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Ngoc-Han Ha, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Renard Walker, Research Biologist |
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| • Scott Winter, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| Miriam C. Poirier, Ph.D., Senior Investigator Head, Carcinogen-DNA Interactions Section |
Research Team: |
| • Alexander Gibbons, Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Elena Hernandez-Ramon, M.D., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Kaarthik John, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Daniel Dan Liu, Special Volunteer |
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| • Yongmin Liu, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Ofelia A. Olivero, Ph.D., Associate Scientist |
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| • Michael O Ongele, Summer Student |
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| • Andrea V Rivera, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Lorangelly Rivera Torres, Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Eunwoo Shim, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Nancy N Si, Summer Student |
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| Lalage M. Wakefield, D.Phil., Senior Investigator Head, Cancer Biology of TGF-beta Section |
Research Team: |
| • Samuel Dengler, B.S., Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Kathleen C. Flanders, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Dror Luger, Ph.D, Research Fellow |
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| • Yoshiko Nagano, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Asaf Raviv, Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Binwu Tang, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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| • Jia Weng, Postbaccalaureate Fellow |
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| • Yuan Yang, M.D., Ph.D., Research Biologist |
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| Li Yang, Ph.D., Investigator Head, Tumor Microenvironment Section |
Research Team: |
| • Bhagelu Ram Achyut, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Sudheer Kumar Gara, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • M. Christine Hollander, Ph.D., Senior Research Assistant |
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| • Nicolas G Skrypek, Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • Hannah Yan, Predoctoral Fellow |
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| • Guiquan Zhu, M.D., Special Volunteer |
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Adjunct Investigator |
| Rafael Casellas, Ph.D., Adjunct Investigator |
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| Maria I. Morasso, Ph.D., Adjunct Investigator |
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| Jonathan S. Wiest, Ph.D., Adjunct Investigator |
Research Team: |
| • Kathleen L. Decicco, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Monika Deshpande, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting) |
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| • J Curtis Gwilliam, Special Volunteer |
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| • Zhihong Shan, M.D., Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
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Senior Scientists |
| R. Mark Simpson, D.V.M., Ph.D., Senior Scientist Head, Comparative Molecular Pathology Unit |
Research Team: |
| • Caroline Andrews, D.V.M., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Jennifer Dwyer, M.S., Research Biologist |
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| • John Hickerson, Program Analyst (Contr) |
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| • Shelley Hoover, B.S., Technical Laboratory Manager |
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| • Matti Kiupel, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Ryan Patrick Traslavina, D.V.M., Postdoctoral Fellow (CRTA) |
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| • Joshua David Webster, DVM, Ph.D., Special Volunteer |
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| • Bih-Rong Wei, Ph.D., Staff Scientist (Contr) |
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Associate Scientists |
| Ofelia A. Olivero, Ph.D. Carcinogen-DNA Interactions Section |
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Staff Scientists |
| Olga Aprelikova, Ph.D. Transgenic Oncogenesis and Genomics Section |
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| Valery V. Bliskovsky, Ph.D. Head, Genomics Core |
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| Christophe Cataisson, Ph.D. In Vitro Pathogenesis Section |
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| Chi-Ping Day, Ph.D. Cancer Modeling Section |
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| Kathleen C. Flanders, Ph.D. Cancer Biology of TGF-beta Section |
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| Noemi Kedei, M.D. Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Promotion Section |
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| Luowei Li, Ph.D. In Vitro Pathogenesis Section |
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| Yongmin Liu, M.D., Ph.D. Carcinogen-DNA Interactions Section |
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| Aleksandra M. Michalowski, Ph.D. |
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| Zhihong Shan, M.D., Ph.D. In Vitro Pathogenesis Section |
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| Binwu Tang, Ph.D. Cancer Biology of TGF-beta Section |
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| Bih-Rong Wei, Ph.D. Comparative Molecular Pathology Unit |
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| Yanlin Yu, Ph.D. Cancer Modeling Section |
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| Shuling Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. Cancer Genetics Section |
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Other Groups and Programs |
| Animal and Genotyping Core |
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| Wendy D. DuBois, Head |
| Mario A. Anzano, Biological Laboratory Technician |
| Valery V. Bliskovsky, Ph.D., Staff Scientist |
| Marta Custer, Animal Technician (Contr) |
| Maudeline Etienne, Animal Technician (Contr) |
| Christina Lee, Predoctoral Fellow |
| Larry Mullen, Biological Laboratory Technician |
| Anthony Vieira, Biological Laboratory Technician |
| Susan Walters, Animal Technician (Contr) |
| Tina Wellington, Biological Laboratory Technician |
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| CMPU Training Program |
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| R. Mark Simpson, D.V.M., Ph.D., Head |
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| FACS Core |
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| Karen M. Wolcott, Head |
| Subhadra Banerjee, Ph.D., Research Biologist |
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