Research interests: Protein-based inheritance, molecular chaperones, quantitative genetics, and the mechanisms that connect cellular state to evolution, aging, drug resistance, and disease.
Education: BS, University of Washington; PhD, MIT; Postdoctoral, Whitehead Institute
Favorite saying: “Trust your data. They never lie to you.” — Gail Ferguson
Favorite activities outside the lab: Hiking, kayaking
Dream baymate: Stephen Colbert
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Research interests: Molecular Mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions, with an emphasis on gene regulation and novel pathways of intercellular communication, including extracellular vesicles
Education: PhD in Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Infections Biology (Berlin), Undergrad in Biotechnology, IIT (Delhi) & MBA UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Favorite saying: “Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” – Carl Sagan
Favorite activities: Badminton, cricket, road trips, discovering new coffee spots, and reading
Dream baymate: Reginald Jeeves
Email: msharma4 at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Protein conformational changes at the intersection of proteome adaptation and destabilization
Education: BS, MS (2x) from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Favorite saying: “God does not play dice with the universe” -Einstein
Favorite activities outside the lab: sports, hiking, cooking, traveling, birding
Dream baymate: Johan Cruijff
Email: whuiting at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Understanding the RNA protein interactions which govern stable protein assembly and how pathological protein conformations may arise from functional self-templating
Education: BS: University of California, Berkeley, PhD: University of Denver
Favorite saying: “When you break something, you must study the pattern of the shattering before you can piece it back together.” – Akwaeke Emezi, Freshwater
Favorite activities outside the lab: Reading, outdoor activities, exploring nature with her dog
Dream baymate: Alice Ball
Email: lenak at stanford dot edu
Research interests: The effects of prions in the microbiome on host organisms
Education: BS: University of Zürich, MS: ETH Zürich, PhD: ETH Zürich/Paul Scherrer Institut
Favorite saying: “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Favorite activities outside the lab: Exploring nature by foot, snowshoes or mountain bike
Dream baymate: Slavoj Žižek
Email: sandro dot meier at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Engineering the spatial organization of protein ensembles
Education: BS, Cornell; PhD, UC Berkeley
Favorite saying: “You get what you select for.”
Favorite activities outside the lab: Running, cooking, watching the Warriors
Dream baymate: Dickson Despommier
Email: cjakobso at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Protein aggregation in health and disease
Education: BPharm, Cairo University; MS, German University in Cairo; PhD, ETH Zurich
Favorite saying: “If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to do a better experiment.” – Ernest Rutherford
Favorite activities outside the lab: Traveling, hiking, exploring new good food and cooking
Dream baymate: Mendel
Email: shadys at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Aging and genetic architecture of neurodegenerative diseases, stress and prions
Education: BS, University of Toronto; PhD, University of Toronto
Favorite saying: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
Favorite activities: cycling, cooking, dancing, and sleeping
Dream baymate: Baby Groot or Jessica Jones
Email: lucyxie at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Biochemistry of protein self-assembly in health and disease. How protein strain variation underlies distinct phenotypes.
Education: BS, University of Minnesota
Favorite saying: “If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas.” – Linus Pauling
Favorite activities: hiking, reading, playing tennis, cooking
Dream baymate: Nathan Fielder
Email: isalarus at stanford dot edu
Research interests: High-throughput interrogation of novel regulatory modalities and systems
Education: BA, Williams College
Favorite saying: “Propagators gonna propagate”
Favorite activities: TTRPGs, Arts and Crafts, Windsurfing
Dream baymate: Colin Kunze
Email: oam at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Cytoplasmic properties and protein assembly
Education: BS/MD, University of Tokyo
Favorite saying: “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” – Lewis Carroll
Favorite activities: Roller skating, creating 3D graphics, lampwork, collecting minerals and fossils, and eating cheese
Dream baymate: Sherlock Holmes
Email: tomokosm at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Biochemistry of proteins with prion-like behavior in health and disease
Education: Currently pursuing: MS in Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University; MS in Biomedical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique (France); BS in Mathematics and Physics, Lycée Hoche (France)
Favorite saying: “Make of your life a dream, and a dream a reality.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Favorite activities: Discovering new places and cultures, playing soccer and handball, DJing and music
Dream baymate: Jean Dujardin
Email: opont at stanford dot edu
Research interests: Meta-stable states in evolution, disease, and development. Mechanisms governing genome stability and cancer transformation.
Education: BS, University of California, Davis
Favorite saying: “Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist of creating out of void but out of chaos” -Mary Shelley
Favorite activities: Spending time with my dogs, watching trashy TV, and looking at the stars
Dream baymate: Dan Harmon
Email: acvanelg at stanford dot edu
Education: BS, Hospitality & Tourism Management, San Francisco State University
Favorite saying: “No matter what you’re facing in life, eat first.” -Hillary Bamulinde
Favorite activities outside the lab: Cooking, hiking, discovering new restaurants, and hanging out w/ family and friends.
Email: j11nunez at stanford dot edu
