
Lab Members

Eric Greer
Principal Investigator
Research Interest: Heritable Epigenetics
Undergraduate Education: B.A. Biochemistry Case Western Reserve University (Sandy Markowitz Lab and Mark Fleming Lab)
Graduate Education: Ph.D. Stanford University (Anne Brunet Lab)
Post-Doctoral Education: Harvard Medical School (Yang Shi Lab)
Place of Birth: Boston, MA, United States
Birthday: June 4, 1982

Ana Clara Garcez Gomes de Freitas
Visiting Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Histone mimicry in cancer
Undergraduate Education: Bachelor of Medicine Aparicio Carvalho University
Place of Birth: Rondonia, Brazil
Birthday: May 9th, 2004

Arif Istiaq
Post-doctoral fellow
Research Interest: Epigenetic regulation and reprogramming
Undergraduate Education: BS Microbiology Noakhali Science and Technology University
Graduate Education: MS Microbiology Noakhali Science and Technolgoy University
Post-Doctoral Education: PhD Developmental Neurobiology, Kumamoto University, Japan (Kunimasa Ohta)
Place of Birth: Narsingdi, Bangladesh
Birthday: January 30th, 1992

Aamir Khan
Post-doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Histone mimicry in cancer
Undergraduate Education: BPharm MGR University
Graduate Education: PhD Cancer Biology National Institute of Immunology (Sagar Sengupta)
MS in Pharma Biotech: National Institute of Pharmaceutifcal Education and Research
Place of Birth: Patna, Bihar, India
Birthday: December 24th, 1989

Raja Ishaq Nabi Khan
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: RNA modifications
Undergraduate Education: Bachelors in Veterinary Sciences and Animal Husbandry Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir
Graduate Education: Masters in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology GBPAUT
Ph.D.: IVRI, India (B P Mishra)
Place of Birth: Tral, Jammu & Kashmir, India
Birthday: January 16th, 1991

Ethan Lee
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Role of Epigenetics in Cellular Altruism and Multicellularity
Undergraduate Education: BA Computer Science and Biology Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2026
Place of Birth: New York, NY, United States
Birthday: December 1st, 2003

Xianrong Ray Mao
Staff Scientist
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: BS Lanzhou University
Graduate Education: PhD UAMS (Steven Berger and MS Shangai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Post-Doctoral Education: Wash U Medicine (C. Michael Crowder and Jeff Milbrandt)
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Place of Birth: Yiwu, Zhejiang, China
Birthday: October 7th, 1971

Caroline McNinch
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: BA in Biology Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2027
Place of Birth: San Francisco, CA, United States
Birthday: July 20th, 2005

Sarah Niesen
Master's student
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: BA in Data Analytics and Botany Miami University
Place of Birth: St. Louis, MO, United States
Birthday: September 22nd, 2000

Gautam Chandra Sarkar
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interest: Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance
Undergraduate Education: B Sc in Biosceince and Bioinformatics Tezpur University
Graduate Education: Ph.D. National Insitute of Immunology, New Delhi, India (Arnab Mukhopadhyay)
M. Sc. in Molecular Biology & Biotechnology: Tezpur University
Place of Birth: Jharbishpani (Bijni), Assam, India
Birthday: September 14th, 1989

Boxi Song
Research Technician
Research Interest: Role of Epigenetics in Evolution of Multicellularity
Undergraduate Education: BA in Biology St. Louis University
Place of Birth: Urumqi, China
Birthday: November 3rd, 2000

Ariel Telger
Graduate Student
Research Interest: Mechanisms of Epigenetics and Role in Developmental Biology
Undergraduate Education: BS Molecular and Cellular Biology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Technician (Brian Clark lab):
Place of Birth: Mokena, IL, United States
Birthday: November 16th, 1997

Maegha Tipirneni
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Histone mimicry in cancer
Undergraduate Education: BA in Global Health Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2027
Place of Birth: Minneapolis, MN, United States
Birthday: July 24th, 2005

Emily Wu
Undergraduate Student
Research Interest: Regulation of Imprinting
Undergraduate Education: BS Biology and Psychology Washington University in St. Louis Class of 2026
Place of Birth: Sleepy Hollow, NY, United States
Birthday: January 31st, 2005