Lab Members

Davie Van Vactor

Davie Van Vactor, Ph.D.

Professor of Cell Biology
Director of Graduate Studies, Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS)
Faculty Director, Curriculum Fellows Program

Bio

Kumar Aavula

Postdoctoral Fellow

Payel Ganguly

Postdoctoral Fellow
Pushpa Sharma

Pushpa Sharma, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Brandon Woods

Brandon Woods

Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student
Hansine Heggeness

Hansine Heggeness

Research Assistant and Lab Manager


Alumni

Position in Van Vactor Lab Current Position Current Employer
Elizabeth McNeill, Ph.D. Instructor Principal Investigator Iowa State University
Carol Bascom-Slack Postdoctoral Fellow Lecturer Yale University
Anastasia Dimitropoulou Postdoctoral Fellow Scientist/Toxicologist Procter and Gamble
Richa Dixit Postdoctoral Fellow Associate Consultant Pharmagellan
Catherine Dubreuil Postdoctoral Fellow Lecturer Harvard Medical School
Ulrike Engel Postdoctoral Fellow Scientific Director Nikon Imaging Center at the University of Heidelberg
Tudor Fulga Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator University of Oxford
Aurnab Ghose Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER)
Karl Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Pomona College
Seth Johnson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Professor Simmons University
Haeryun Lee Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Pohang University of Science and Technology
Jennifer Long Postdoctoral Fellow Science Faculty Browne & Nichols School
Lori Lorenz Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator U. Mass. Medical School
Laura Anne Lowery Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Boston College
Cecilia Lu Postdoctoral Fellow Research Scientist Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Kyle Miller Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Michigan State University
Israel Pichardo-Casas Postdoctoral Fellow Postdoctoral Fellow Harvard Medical School
Jannette Rusch Postdoctoral Fellow Research Associate Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hunkar Gizem Yesilyurt, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Principal Investigator Department of Biology, Nichols State University
Yougen Zhan Postdoctoral Fellow Medical Resident Mount Sinai Hospital
Jack Bateman Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Principal Investigator Bowdoin College
Vivian Chou Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Programmer, Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
Mark Emerson Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Principal Investigator City College of New York (CUNY)
Nancy Kaufmann Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Principal Investigator University of Pittsburgh
Chris Korey Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Principal Investigator Charleston College, NC
Carlos Loya Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Intern, Venture Capital Third Rock Ventures
Nicole Sakellari Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Trainee Clinical Development Operations Bayer AG
Cheryl Thompson Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant Harvard University
Zachary Wills Predoctoral Fellow, Graduate Student Principal Investigator University of Pittsburgh
Melda Buyukozturk Associate Graduate Student Brandeis University
Yulia Yelick Research Assistant and Lab Manager Graduate Student Tufts University
Nicholas Fancher Research Assistant
Robert Ohman Research Assistant Medical Student Tufts University
Chloe Warinner Research Assistant Medical Student Harvard Medical School
Fritz Allen Laboratory Assistant
Megan Fowler Undergraduate Student
Niket Gowravaram Undergraduate Student Medical Student
Kayla Ingram Undergraduate Student
Dmitriy Lapin Undergraduate Student
Maxime Vounatsos Undergraduate Student Graduate Student Carnegie Mellon