Lab Members

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Sichen (Susan) Shao

Principal Investigator

sichen_shao [at] hms.harvard.edu 
Google_scholar   ORCID 

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 an associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

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Jingjing Gao

Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

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João Coelho

Postdoctoral Fellow

joao_coelho [at] hms.harvard.edu

João is from Portugal and did his PhD with Prof. Matthias Feige at the Technical University of Munich.

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Haruka Chino

Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

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Michael Rale

Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

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Dawafuti Sherpa

Postdoctoral Fellow

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.

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Jianwei Zeng

Postdoctoral Fellow

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).

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Haixia Zhou

Postdoctoral Fellow

haixia_zhou [at] hms.harvard.edu
joint with Brown Lab
Merck-BCMP Fellow 2021-2022, BCMP Postdoctoral Fellow 2024-2025

Haixia received her PhD from Tsinghua University in 2019 and started her postdoctoral work in the same year. She enjoys working on the structural basis of cilia and ciliopathies.

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Alice Herneisen

Postdoctoral Fellow

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!

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Alice Fan

Graduate Student (BBS)

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.

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Bezawit Sahile

Graduate Student (PiN)

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.

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Joshua Corbo

Graduate Student (MCO)

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.

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Isabella Ruiz

Research Associate

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.

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Sage

Lab Dog

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. 

Alumni

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