sichen_shao [at] hms.harvard.edu 
Susan was born in China and grew up in Texas. She enjoys designing experiments, interpreting unexpected results, and marveling at the elegance of cellular mechanisms. She is a professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
jingjing_gao [at] hms.harvard.edu
Reed Memorial Fellow 2023-2024
Jingjing is from China and did her PhD research in the lab of Ye Xiang at Tsinghua University.
joao_coelho [at] hms.harvard.edu
João is from Portugal and did his PhD with Prof. Matthias Feige at the Technical University of Munich.
haruka_chino [at] hms.harvard.edu
Takeda Science Foundation Fellow
Haruka is from Japan and did her PhD research in the lab of Noboru Mizushima at The University of Tokyo. She is interested in how cells maintain protein quality control.
michael_rale [at] hms.harvard.edu
Michael is from Los Angeles, California and did his PhD research with Prof. Sabine Petry at Princeton University. He enjoys writing short stories, reading, photography, and being near the ocean. Also loves dogs and cats.
dawafuti_sherpa [at] hms.harvard.edu
EMBO Postdoctoral Fellow
Dawa grew up in Nepal and moved to Germany for higher education. She did her PhD with Prof. Brenda Schulman at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Munich. Outside of lab, she loves taking long walks in nature, running, and hiking.
jianwei_zeng [at] hms.harvard.edu
Jianwei is from China and did his PhD in the lab of Jiawei Wang (Tsinghua University). He also conducted postdoctoral work with Xinquan Wang (Tsinghua University) and Rui Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis).
alice_herneisen [at] hms.harvard.edu
joint with Brown Lab
HHMI Helen Hay Whitney Fellow
Alice is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and did her PhD research with Prof. Sebastian Lourido at The Whitehead Institute/MIT. She also conducted postdoctoral work with Gira Bhabha and Damian Ekiert at Johns Hopkins. Outside of lab, she takes care of her dog, Kinase!
alice_fan [at] g.harvard.edu
Alice is from Boston and conducted her undergraduate research under Dr. John Porco at Boston University. Outside of lab, she loves embroidery, window shopping, and baking Christmas cookies year-round.
ammaar_saeed [at] g.harvard.edu
joint with Brown Lab
Ammaar is from the suburbs of Chicago. Prior to graduate school, he worked in the labs of Doeke Hekstra at Harvard University and Andrew Carter at the MRC-LMB. Outside of lab, he has been known to drink coffee and occasionally ride his bike.
bezawit_sahile [at] g.harvard.edu
Bezawit was born in Ethiopia and moved to the US during high school. She conducted her undergraduate research with Prof. Myriam Heiman at MIT. She enjoyed journaling, painting, exploring green spaces, and nature photography--especially of sunsets and flowers.
joshua_corbo [at] g.harvard.edu
NSF Graduate Research Fellow 2023-2025*
Josh is from Waterbury, Connecticut and worked in Eugene Valkov's lab at the NIH as a postbac studying regulatory mechanisms of RNA-binding proteins in mRNA decay.
isabella_ruiz [at] hms.harvard.edu
Isabella is from Houston, Texas and worked under Prof. Mona Mehdy as an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin. In her free time, she enjoys listening to music, watching movies, and painting.
bark [at] delivery.people
Sage is from Texas and sadly does not like most strangers. While managing the lab remotely, she can be persuaded to sit, stay, speak, shake, high-five, lie down, roll over, catch, jump, and (usually) come when called.
