Former Lab Members
Sanjana Kumar
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: DNA methylation
Undergraduate Education: UC Berkeley Class of 2017
Current Position: Medical Student at CWRU:
Place of Birth: Rochester, NY, United States
Birthday: August 18, 1995
Steven Burger
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Novel DNA modifications
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Molecular and Cell Biology University of Connecticut (Craig Nelson)
Place of Birth: Okinawa, Japan
Birthday: March 24, 1993
Hiroki Shibuya
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Agriculture The University of Tokyo
Graduate Education: Ph.D. The University of Tokyo (Yoshinori Watanabe)
Current Position: Assistant Professor at the University of Gothenburg: Lab website: https://shibuyahiroki.com/
Place of Birth: Sendai, Japan
Birthday: December 1, 1985
Aliya Feroe
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Novel DNA modifications
Undergraduate Education: Bowdoin College Class of 2017 (Bruce Kohorn)
Current Position: Medical Student at Harvard Medical School:
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, MN, United States
Birthday: May 17, 1995
Hanine Hajj
Instructor in Pediatrics
Research Interest: Imprinting Diseases
Undergraduate Education: Saint Joseph University, Lebanon
Graduate Education: M.D. Saint Joseph University, Lebanon
Pediatric Residency: University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics
NICU Fellowship: Harvard Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship Program
Current Position: Neonatologist at Cypress Fairbanks Medical Center:
Place of Birth: Beirut, Lebanon
Birthday: February 18, 1984
David Bellamy
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Identifying new DNA methylation regulators
Undergraduate Education: B.S. University of Ottawa
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Canada
Birthday: April 7, 1993
Lara Roach
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Identifying heritable cues
Undergraduate Education: B.S. University of California, Los Angeles
Place of Birth: Anaheim, CA, United States
Birthday: April 20, 1994
Sage Wesenberg
Co-op Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: DNA modifications
Undergraduate Education: Northeastern University Class of 2019
Place of Birth: Reno, NV, United States
Birthday: November 6, 1995
Elizabeth Curtis
Undergraduate Volunteer Student
Research Interest: Imprinting Diseases
Undergraduate Education: Northeastern University class of 2019
Place of Birth: Concord, MA, United States
Birthday: October 11, 1995
Iliès Haddou
MD-PhD student
Research Interest: Novel DNA modifications
Undergraduate Education: Claude Bernard-Lyon 1 University and Paris Diderot-Paris Descartes University
Graduate Education: MD-PhD class of 2028 Liliane Bettencourt Inserm School
Place of Birth: Lyon, France
Birthday: June 3, 1995
Nicole Wilkinson
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: Case Western Reserve University Class of 2019
Current Position: Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the NIH:
Place of Birth: Thalwil, Switzerland
Birthday: September 20th, 1996
Paul-Enguerrand Fady
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: McGill University Class of 2018
Current Position: Graduate Student at King's College London:
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: April 30th, 1996
Tre Artis
Rotation Student
Research Interest: DNA modifications, Heritable Epigenetics, Germline maintenance
Undergraduate Education: B.A. Biology Vassar College (Marisa Bartolomei (UPenn))
Place of Birth: Richmond, VA, United States
Birthday: January 17, 1993
Hui Mao
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Northeast Agriculture University, China
Graduate Education: Ph.D University of Science and Technology of China (Shouhong Guang)
Current Position: Masters student in Applied Statistics at PSU:
Place of Birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Birthday: January 15, 1989
Emma Golding
Administrative Associate
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.A. Journalism and Political Science UMass Amherst
Place of Birth: Worcester, MA, United States
Birthday: March 15, 1995
Matthew Smith-Raska
Neonatology Fellow
Research Interest: Imprinting Diseases
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Cornell University
Graduate Education: M.D., Ph.D Columbia University Collegs of Physicians and Surgeons
Pediatric Residency: University of California, Los Angeles
Current Position: Assistant Professor and Attending Pediatrician at Weill Cornell and New York Presbyterian Hospital:
Place of Birth: Hackensack, NJ, United States
Birthday: March 21, 1981
Fiona MacWhinnie
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Imprinting Diseases
Undergraduate Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst Class of 2020
Place of Birth: Springfield, MA, United States
Birthday: December 16th, 1997
Zach O’Brown
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Characterization of Novel Epigenetic Regulators
Undergraduate Education: B.A. Biology University of California Santa Barbara (Norbert Reich and Patrick Brown)
Graduate Education: Ph.D. Stanford University (Stuart Kim)
Current Position: Scientist at BIOAGE Labs:
Place of Birth: San Francisco, CA, United States
Birthday: December 27, 1986
Andrew Earl
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Characterization of Novel Epigenetic Regulators
Undergraduate Education: BS Molecular Biology Brigham Young University (Steven Johnson)
Place of Birth: Payson, UT, United States
Birthday: June 17th, 1994
Anya Flood Taylor
Co-op Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Imprinting
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2021 Northeastern University
Place of Birth: New York, NY, United States
Birthday: December 1, 1999
Colette Fritsche
Co-op Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2021 Northeastern University
Place of Birth: Newton, MA
Birthday: October 2, 1998
Manouk Gerritsen
Master's student
Research Interest: Characterization of Novel Epigenetic Regulators
Undergraduate Education: B.Sc. Life Sciences HAN University of Applied Sciences (Guardavaccaro and Medema)
Graduate Education: Master's student class of 2019 Utrecht University
Place of Birth: Zutphen, Netherlands
Birthday: September 4, 1995
Kavya Anjur
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Epitranscriptome regulation
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2021 Johns Hopkins University
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL, United States
Birthday: 1999
Anna Dong
High School Summer Student
Research Interest: Tracking Heritable Methylation
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2020 Brookline High School
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: December 2nd, 2001
George Sabin
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2021 King's College London
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: September 18th, 1998
Chaim Chernoff
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Molecular and Cellular Biology Johns Hopkins University (Robert Johnston lab)
Place of Birth: New York, NY, United States
Birthday: April 12, 1996
Rachel Savage
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Epigenetics in Dictyostelium
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics Wesleyan University (Ishita Mukerji and Josien van Wolfswinkel)
Place of Birth: Austin, TX, United States
Birthday: March 15, 1996
Aileen Levan
Co-op Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2022 Northeastern University
Place of Birth: Oklahoma City, OK, United States
Birthday: September 29, 2000
Gabriela Hoffmann
Co-op Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Imprinting
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2021 Northeastern University
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: June 21st, 1999
Kejun (Albert) Ying
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Role of Epigenetics in Regulating Longevity
Undergraduate Education: BS Biology Sun Yat-sen University (Zhou Songyang and Matt Kaeberlein)
Place of Birth: Fujian, China
Birthday: September 20, 1997
Henry Bushnell
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Epigenetics in Dictyostelium
Undergraduate Education: B.A. Biology Wesleyan University (Ruth Johnson and Douglas Melton)
Place of Birth: St Paul, MN, United States
Birthday: May 2, 1995
Noa Liberman-Isakov
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.Sc. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Etta Livneh)
Graduate Education: Ph.D. and M.Sc. Weizmann Institute of Science (Adi Kimchi)
Post-Doctoral Education: Harvard Medical School (David Sinclair)
Place of Birth: Rehovot, Israel
Birthday: February 18, 1980
Nana Yaa Amoh
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: BS in Biology and Hispanic Studies William & Mary
Place of Birth: New York City, NY, United States
Birthday: September 11, 1997
Roberto Sotomayor Mena
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Aging Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B. Sc. Industrial Biotechnology University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez (Ríos-Velazquez)
Place of Birth: San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States
Birthday: July 25, 1997
Perry Bowers
Administrative Associate
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.A. International Studies Boston College
Place of Birth: New Haven, CT, United States
Birthday: January 19th, 1996
Ken Takashima
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Imprinting
Undergraduate Education: M.D. Hokkaido University
Graduate Education: Ph.D. Hokkaido University (Tsukasa Seya)
Place of Birth: Asahikawa, Japan
Birthday: November 6, 1987
Maximillian Soltysiak
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Epigenetics of Multicellularity and Microproteomics
Undergraduate Education: B. Sc. Genetics and Biochemistry University of Western Ontario (Bogumil Karas and Kathleen Hill)
Place of Birth: Ontario, Canada
Birthday: December 23, 1998
Ernst Schmid
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Histone mimetics
Undergraduate Education: BS in Molecular Biology UCLA (Heather Christofk)
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Birthday: Leo
Julia Natale
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Regulation of Longevity
Undergraduate Education: BA in Biology Boston College class of 2022
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: April 20, 2000
Joseph Al Haddad
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: Biology Class of 2021 University of Waterloo
Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Birthday: August 4, 1999
Nancy Pohl
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Aging Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.A. Biology Mount Holyoke College
Lab Manager: Keith Blackwell lab
Place of Birth: Houston, TX, United States
Birthday: Birthday
Ewelina Nowak
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Evolution of Multicellularity
Undergraduate Education: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology, Psychology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL, United States
Birthday: July 10th, 1998
Scarlett Dellacona
High School Summer Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: Class of 2023 Lynbrook Senior High School
Place of Birth: New York City, NY, United States
Birthday: December 19th, 2004
Zilan (Lilian) Li
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Breast cancer
Undergraduate Education: B. Sc. Biochemistry McGill University class of 2022
Place of Birth: Huaian, Jiangsu, China
Birthday: April 20th, 1999
Yuan (Simon) Wang
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.Sc. Hong Kong Baptist University
Graduate Education: Ph.D. The University of Hong Kong (Rudolf Wu)
Post-Doctoral Education: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) (Yin Shen)
Place of Birth: Gui Yang, Gui Zhou, China
Birthday: June 12, 1989
Kyle Smith
Administrative Associate
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: Undergraduate School
Place of Birth: Place of birth
Birthday: Month, day, and year
Elizabeth Resner
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: Harvard College class of 2025
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: June 26th, 2003
Oge Ogbogu
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Evolution of Multicellularity
Undergraduate Education: BA in Biology Harvard class of 2024
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, CA, United States
Birthday: February 23, 2002
María Fernanda Trovero Martínez
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B. Sc. Biology University of the Republic, Uruguay
Graduate Education: M. Sc. and Ph.D. University of the Republic, Uruguay (Adriana Geisinger)
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Birthday: June 25, 1989
Mohd Hafiz Bin Mohd Rothi
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B. Sc. Genetics National University of Malaysia
Graduate Education: Ph.D. University of Michigan (Andrzej Wierzbicki)
Masters: M.Sc. University of Technology MARA Malaysia
Place of Birth: Selangor, Malaysia
Birthday: January 17, 1986
Konstantinos Boulias
Staff Scientist
Research Interest: Characterization of Novel Epigenetic Regulators
Undergraduate Education: B.Sc. Biology University of Crete, Greece
Graduate Education: Ph.D University of Crete, Greece (Iannis Talianidis Lab)
Post-Doctoral Education: MIT (Robert Horvitz Lab)
Place of Birth: Athens, Greece
Birthday: May 17, 1977
Kathleen Kim
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: Wellesley College Class of 2023
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: December 26, 2000
Julianna Escudero
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Role of Epigenetics in Evolution of Multicellularity
Undergraduate Education: BS Biology/Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago (Daniel Shaye)
Place of Birth: Chicago, IL, United States
Birthday: July 20th, 1996
Joowon Um
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Role of epitranscriptomics in regulating aging
Undergraduate Education: BS Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology UCLA (Steve Jacobsen)
Place of Birth: Seoul, South Korea
Birthday: February 27th, 1997
Chris Roberts
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Role of Histone Mimetics in Regulating Tumorigenesis
Undergraduate Education: BS Biology Rhodes College
Place of Birth: Boston, MA
Birthday: September 15th, 1997
Allison Weng
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Role of Epigenetics in Evolution of Multicellularity
Undergraduate Education: BA in Molecular Cell Biology and MUsic University of Califronia, Berkeley Class of 2027
Place of Birth: Columbia, MO, United States
Birthday: June 25th, 2005
Sharan Surya
Undergraduate Summer Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: BS-MS IISER Bhopal Class of 2025
Place of Birth: Combatore, Tamil Nadu, India
Birthday: April 19th, 2002
Xing Wang
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Role of Histone Mimetics in Regulating Tumorigenesis
Undergraduate Education: Sun Yat Sen University Class of 2024
Place of Birth: Beijing, China
Birthday: June 22nd, 2001
Peter Baird
Rotation Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: BA Amherst College (Jean Schaffer (Joslin))
Place of Birth: Rockville, MD, United States
Birthday: November 5th, 1999
