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

Lindsey Bechen
Technical Assistant
B.A., Biology, Amherst College

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

Elizabeth Hemenway
B.S., Biology, University of Missouri-Kansas City
MIT Biology

Alex Tang
B.S., Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCLA
MIT Biology

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.

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

Junsik Choi
B.S. amd M.S., Applied Life Chemistry, Seoul National University
Ph.D., Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University

Colette Picard
PhD Student, MIT Computational and Systems Biology, 2013-2018
Current: Postdoctoral Associate, Jacobsen Lab, UCLA

Robert Erdmann
PhD Student, MIT Biology, 2011-2016
Current: Director of Campus Learning Data and Technology, University of Minneosta Rochester

Ben Williams
Postdoctoral Associate, 2013-2020
Current: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Plant & Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley

Xiao-yu Zheng
Postdoctoral Associate, 2017-2020
Current: Senior Bionformatic Scientist

Maja Klosinska
Postdoctoral Associate, 2011-2017
Current: Assistant Professor of Biology, Millersville University

Daniela Pignatta
Research Scientist, 2014-2015
Postdoctoral Associate, 2011-2014
Current: Associate Director of Genomics, The Ocular Genomics Institute, Mass Eye & Ear

Katherine Novitzky
Technician, March 2016-July 2018
Current: Epicypher, NC

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

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

Pratheek H. Pandesha
Khorana Scholar, Summer 2019
Current: Master's Student, Indian Agricultural Research Institute

Drew Cohen
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2019
Williams College, Class of 2020

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

Gabriella Lopez Perez
MIT Summer Research Program, 2018
B.S., Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez
Current: MIT Biology Graduate Program, Entering Class of 2020

Eleanor Wintersteen
Undergraduate, Course 7, MIT Class of 2019
2017-2018

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