lab members

 
 
Karla Neugebauer
 

Karla Neugebauer, phd

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology

karla.neugebauer@yale.edu


Lokha Ranjani Alagar Boopathy, phd

Postdoctoral Associate

Lokha studies co-transcriptional RNA folding in yeast.


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