lab members
Karla Neugebauer, phd
Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology
karla.neugebauer@yale.edu
Pernille bech, MS
postgraduate Associate
Pernille studies co-transcriptional splicing.
pernille.bech@yale.edu
ALEXANDRA BERGFORT, phd
Postdoctoral Fellow
Alexandra studies mechanisms of co-transcriptional splicing.
alexandra.bergfort@yale.edu
Maureen Brennan, BS
Postgraduate Associate
Maureen studies nuclear condensates in zebrafish embryos.
maureen.brennan@yale.edu
DEE ANNA DIAMOND, MS
Lab Manager
dee.diamond@yale.edu
Lucky Duck, Behavior degree from Paws 'N Effect
Dog
Lucky is interested in squirrels and has a side-project on chipmunks.
Jackson Gordon, BS
Graduate Student
Jackson studies alternative splicing in the nervous system.
jackson.gordon@yale.edu
Guishi Kubaczka, phd
Postdoctoral Associate
Guishi studies co-transcriptional RNA folding in green algae.
guillermina.kubaczka@yale.edu
jing lin
undergraduate student
Jing studies readthrough transcription and its relation to co-transcriptional splicing.
jing.lin@yale.edu
Paulina Podszywalow-Bartnicka, phd
visiting Fellow
Paulina studies splicing and protein-RNA interaction in leukemic cells under hypoxia.
paulina.podszywalow-bartnicka@yale.edu
kyle robik
undergraduate student
Kyle studies readthrough transcription and its relation to co-transcriptional splicing.
kyle.robik@yale.edu
Leonard Schärfen, MS
Graduate Student
Leo studies RNA structure formation during transcription and splicing in yeast.
leonard.schaerfen@yale.edu
Morgan shine, bs
graduate Student
Morgan studies how temperature affects pre-mRNA processing in green algae.
morgan.shine@yale.edu
Ruiheng wu, bs
Master’s student
Ruiheng studies interactions between the SMN Tudor domain and DMA ligands in bimolecular condensates.
ruiheng.wu@yale.edu
chuyue zhang, bs
Graduate student
Wendy studies protein-RNA binding in nuclear condensates.
wendy.zhang@yale.edu
DAGMAR ZIGACKOVA, PHD
Postdoctoral Associate
Dasha studies the "all-or-none" RNA processing in mammalian cells.
dagmar.zigackova@yale.edu
ALUMNI
Tejita Agarwal, TBA
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
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
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, TBA
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
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
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
Sabrina Hu, High School Student
Kimberly Kotovic, STEM Education and Outreach Consultant in Seattle, Washington, USA
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
Kat Moon, TBA
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
Marta Pabis, Associate Research Scientist at Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Krakow, Poland
Anna Pertl, Research Technician in the Rogulja Lab at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
David Phizicky, Co-Founder and CSO at Waypoint Bio, New York City, New York, USA
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
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
Crystal Xu, Medical Student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio, USA