lab members
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