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William Mallard
Graduate Student
I study how bacteria make decisions in noisy environments.
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Daniel Henthorn
Graduate Student
I am interested in protein dynamics, particularly governing rules from a physical perspective
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Luis Alberto Gutiérrez López
Graduate Student (joint with Paulsson lab)
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Diego Alejandro Ramirez Diaz
Postdoc
Physics of cell division in bacteria. Can we induce artificial septum formation?
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Aditya Bandekar
Joint postdoc with Yonatan Grad
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Adam Strandberg
Previous Lab Members:
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Carl Wivagg
Postdoc
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Ye-Jin (Jenna) Eun
Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellow
I developed new methods for live-cell imaging of haloarchaea and studied the cell division and growth mechanism of Halobacterium salinarum.
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Mike Dion
Lab Manager / tech wizard
As the most experienced guy around, Mike makes the magic happen.
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Patrick Stoddard
Graduate Student (joint with Murray lab)
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Laura Bagamery
Graduate Student (joint with Murray lab)
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Saman Hussain
Graduate Student
I study how bacterial cells are able to organize the synthesis of their cell walls to grow in defined and reproducible shapes.
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Mrinal Kapoor
Graduate Student
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Zach Barry
Graduate Student (joint with Bathe lab)
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Sean Wilson
Graduate Student
I am interested in understanding aspects of bacterial cell wall hydrolases, essential enzymes that break down the wall to allow growth while maintaining its integrity.
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Yingjie Sun
Post doctoral fellow
I study how bacteria change regulate their rate of growth at the single-molecule and single-cell levels .
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Devon Stork
Graduate Student (joint with Church Lab)
I use tools to develop new fluorescent tools for imaging.
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Matthew Holmes
Graduate Student
I study the dynamics of bacterial cytokinesis. I enjoy putting labels on proteins and then watching what they do
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Jenny Zheng
Graduate Student
I study cell shape formation by looking at archaea grow and divide.