LAB MEMBERS

Mary Gehring
Member, Whitehead Institute
Associate Professor of Biology, MIT
B.A., Biology, Williams College
Ph.D., Plant Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Katherine Novitzky
Technical Assistant
B.S., Biology, East Carolina University
M.S., Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, East Carolina University

Colette Picard
B.S., Biology and Biometry & Statistics, Cornell University
PhD candidate, MIT Computational and Systems Biology

Deborah Pohlmann
B.S., Biology, University of Richmond
PhD candidate, MIT Biology

Ben Williams
B.A., Biological Sciences, Oxford University
Ph.D., Plant Sciences, Cambridge University

Satyaki P.R.V.
B.Sc., Biochemistry and Chemistry, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India
M.S., Biology, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Cornell University.

Xiao-yu Zheng
B.S., Biological Sciences, Peking University
Ph.D., Biology, Duke University

Rebecca Povilus
B.S., Plant Biology and Earth Sciences, University of Michigan
Ph.D., Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Gabriella Lopez Perez
MIT Summer Research Program
Undergraduate, Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Eleanor Wintersteen
Undergraduate, Course 7, MIT Class of 2019

Joshua Derrick
Undergraduate, Course 6-7, MIT Class of 2020

Maja Klosinska
M.S., Biology, University of Lodz, Poland
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Current: Assistant Professor of Biology, Millersville University

Robert Erdmann
Graduate Student, MIT Biology, 2010-2016
Current: Postdoctoral Associate, Science Education Research, Stains Lab, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Daniela Pignatta
Research Scientist, 2014-2015
Postdoctoral Associate, 2011-2014
Current: Senior Scientist II, Indigo Agriculture

Aurore Bochnakian
Visiting Master's Student, March-August 2015
Current: PhD Student, Institut Curie, France

Brianna Valenti
Research Intern, July-August 2015
Current: Biology Teacher, Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School, Hamilton, MA

Soun Heang Lee
Undergraduate Researcher, MIT Summer Research Program, June-August 2015
Current: Graduate Student, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard University

Veronica Echevarria
Undergraduate Researcher, MIT-Amgen UROP Scholar, June-August 2015
Current: Graduate Student, Plant Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Morgan Moeglein
Technician, October 2010-July 2014
Current: Graduate Student, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Brown University

Johan Jaenisch
Technician, January 2013-July 2014
Current: Graduate Student, Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Elias Scheer
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2012
Technician, May 2013-June 2014
Current: Graduate Student, Rockefeller University