lab members

 
 
Karla Neugebauer
 

Karla Neugebauer, phd

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology

karla.neugebauer@yale.edu

Outside of the lab, Karla enjoys birding, kayaking, biking, dogs, films, and The Warning.


Lokha Ranjani Alagar Boopathy, phd

Postdoctoral Associate

Lokha studies co-transcriptional RNA folding in yeast.

Outside of the lab, Lokha enjoys bird watching, gardening, and avoiding fish.


jae-hee bae, MS

Postgraduate Associate

Jae-Hee studies the proteomic and RNA signatures of the algal stress response.

Outside of the lab, Jae-Hee enjoys birding, biking, hiking, poetry, and Costco food product sampling.

jae-hee.bae@yale.edu


ALEXANDRA BERGFORT, phd

Associate Research Scientist

Alexandra studies mechanisms of co-transcriptional splicing.

Outside of the lab, Alexandra enjoys spending time outdoors, Latin dancing, and traveling.

alexandra.bergfort@yale.edu


Clara Díaz Suárez

Undergraduate Student

Clara studies the regulation of co-transcriptional RNA processing.

Outside of the lab, Clara enjoys sailing, going to the beach, coffee runs, and walking her toy poodle.

clara.diazsuarez@yale.edu


cricket

Emotional Support Specialist

Cricket studies the aerodynamics of tennis balls.

Outside of the lab, Cricket enjoys sampling treats and stealing shoes.


sabrina hu

Undergraduate Student

Sabrina studies the relationship between RNA splicing and transcriptional readthrough in yeast.

Outside of the lab, Sabrina enjoys baking, walking, watching dramas, and playing fetch with her cocker spaniel.

sabrina.hu@yale.edu


Guillermina Kubaczka, phd

Postdoctoral Associate

Guishi studies co-transcriptional RNA folding in green algae.

Outside of the lab, Guishi enjoys learning new crafts at Make Haven, screenprinting, eggsploring, going to the theater, biking, poetry, and photography.

guillermina.kubaczka@yale.edu


audry rakozy, bs

graduate Student

Audry studies how environmental stress affects pre-mRNA processing in green algae.

Outside of the lab, Audry enjoys birdwatching, trail running, ballroom dancing, and requesting too many books from the library to read at once.

audry.rakozy@yale.edu


kyle robik, MS

Postgraduate Associate

Kyle studies readthrough transcription and its relation to co-transcriptional splicing.

Outside of the lab, Kyle enjoys skiing, climbing, gardening, sourdough bread baking, whiskey, scrambled eggs, football, and reading.

kyle.robik@yale.edu


Morgan shine, bs

graduate Student

Morgan studies how temperature affects pre-mRNA processing in green algae.

Outside of the lab, Morgan enjoys horror books and movies, drawing, pancakes, sweet potatoes, SpongeBob references, and The Cure.

morgan.shine@yale.edu


Leena sen, bs

graduate Student

Leena studies regulation of co-transcriptional RNA processing by RNA-binding proteins.

Outside of the lab, Leena enjoys painting, writing, cooking, trying new restaurants, watching films and theater, making cocktails, and going to concerts and music festivals.

leena.sen@yale.edu


melda top

Undergraduate Student

Melda studies how the K-rich sequence in coilin affects its interaction in RNA.

Outside of the lab, Melda enjoys calligraphy, painting, listening to music, sudoku, and watching TV.

melda.top@yale.edu


chuyue zhang, bs

Graduate student

Wendy studies protein-RNA binding in nuclear condensates.

Outside of the lab, Wendy enjoys reading online novels and history books and making handicrafts, particularly crocheting.

wendy.zhang@yale.edu


ALUMNI

Tejita Agarwal, Medical Student at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Zade Akras, Medical Student at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Tara Alpert, Scientist at Novartis Gene Therapies, San Diego, California, USA

Minna-Liisa Änkö, Research Group Head at Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton, Australia

Dahyana Arias Escayola, Scientist at Strand Therapeutics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Pernille Bech, PhD Student at Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Nicole Bieberstein, Science Teacher at Johann-Gottfried-Herder-Gymnasium, Pirna, Germany

Valentina Botti, Molecular and Cell Biology Scientist at The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA

Maureen Brennan, PhD Student at University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

Ethan Brown, Yale Senior in Emonet Lab, MCDB, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Mattia Brugiolo, Research Assistant at The Jackson Laboratory, Farmington, Connecticut, USA

Fernando Carrillo Oesterreich, Head of Data Science CoE at Henkel, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Tucker Carrocci, Postdoctoral Associate with Aaron Hoskins at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Erin Chong, Undergraduate Student at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Edward Courchaine, Postdoctoral Fellow with Roy Parker at University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, USA

Neos Cruz, PhD Student at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Vienna BioCenter, Vienna, Austria

Vladimir Despic, Postdoctoral Associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York City, New York, USA

Dee Diamond, Assistant Program Manager at Yale Environmental Health & Safety, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Antonio Domingues, Bioinformatician at Scientific Computing Facility, MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany

Helia Gagnon, Medical Student at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Jennifer Geiger, Postdoctoral Fellow at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, Seattle, Washington, USA

Jackson Gordon, Postdoctoral Associate with Don Fox at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Janina Görnemann, Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Lydia Herzel, Assistant Professor at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Patricia Heyn, Postdoctoral Fellow at MRC Human Genetics Unit, IGMM, Edinburgh, UK

Kimberly Kotovic, STEM Education and Outreach Consultant in Seattle, Washington, USA

Jing Lin, TBA

Imke Listerman, Product Owner Image Analysis and AI at AstraZeneca, Munich, Germany

Martin Machyna, Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Deimante Mikalauskaite, Graduate Student at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Katherine Moon, Associate at Close Concerns, San Francisco, California, USA

Michaela Müller McNicoll, Junior Professor at Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

Diana Silvia Marina Ottoz, Postdoctoral Associate at Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA

Yana Ostrovska, Master’s Student at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Zhengqing Ouyang, Associate Professor of Biostatistics at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Marta Pabis, Associate Research Scientist at Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Krakow, Poland

Anna Pertl, PhD Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

David Phizicky, Co-Founder and CSO at Waypoint Bio, New York City, New York, USA

Paulina Podszywalow-Bartnicka, Assistant Professor at Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

Kirsten Reimer, Bioinformatics Scientist at Scribe Therapeutics, Alameda, California, USA

Jonathan Rodenfels, Group Leader at Max Planck Institute of Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany

Aparna Katoch Sapra, Co-Founder of StellarGene Technologies, New Delhi, India

Pradyumna Sapre, Undergraduate Student at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Leonard Schärfen, Assistant professor at the UMass Chan Medical School RNA Therapeutics Institute, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Daniela Simcikova, Senior Lecturer at Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

David Staněk, Research Group Leader at Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czech Republic and Professor at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Korinna Straube, Research Specialist at BioNTech SE, Mainz, Germany

Magdalena Strzelecka, Lead Data Scientist at Qiagen, Munich, Germany

Guste Urbonaite, Scientist at Transition Bio, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Ruiheng Wu, PhD Student at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Crystal Xu, Medical Student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Jingqi Yang, Research Assistant at Columbia University, New York City, New York, USA

Dagmar Zigackova, Associate Research Scientist at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA