Our lab members

Dr. Erica Larschan

I am an associate professor of biology and have been teaching and conducting research at Brown for 16 years.  My research group is fascinated by the amazing process by which genes are regulated together through diverse and highly compacted genomes. Our research has won several significant awards including...

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the Presidential Early Career Award from President Obama.   In my free time, I enjoy working out with my daughter(age 13), kayaking with my husband and doing AP Stats homework with my son(age 17). 

Dominique Pablito

My research investigates epigenetic mechanisms and their potential to induce or contribute to genomic instability in the form of DNA-RNA hybrids, commonly known as R-loops.

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I am a third-year Ph.D. student in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Department at Brown. I'm from the Four Corners Area and I belong to the Zuni, Navajo, and Comanche tribes. I grew up on the Zuni and Navajo reservations and I speak Zuni, Navajo, English, and French. My interests include running, basketball, and traditional beadwork.

Cynthia Zhang

I am a second-year master's student studying data science. In the Larschan Lab, I am working on the analyses and visualizations of CUT and RUN data. In addition to that, I am

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interested in machine learning and will be exploring the potential application of such techniques on 3D genome datasets.

Jasmine Shum

I am a senior (Class of 2024) concentrating in Computational Biology on the Biology track with a theme in Neurobiology. In the Larschan Lab, I investigate the role of various RNA-CLAMP complexes in driving spliceosome function.

Pranav Mahableshwarkar

I am currently a third-year student studying Computational Biology. I am working on developing computational methods to better analyze and understand data produced in the Lab from a multi-omic approach! Outside of lab work, I love to go hiking and bake desserts.

Joseph Aguilera

I am a PhD student in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Department. I completed my undergraduate work in Bioengineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

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I use a multi-omics approach to study the dynamics of transcriptional regulation and chromatin organization.

Melissa Aldana

I am a senior concentrating in Biology. In the Larschan Lab, I use the CUT and RUN to better understand DCC targeting to the X-chromosome via CLAMP.

Dr. Gunjan Singh

I am a Postdoc in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry Department. I worked on how Heat shock pathway genes are regulated during epithelial tumor development for my graduate project at Banaras Hindu University, India. Currently, I am interested in understanding molecular mechanisms of sex-specific brain aging...

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using multi-omics approaches. In my free time, I enjoy going for a walk, or for a hike in nature.

Smriti Vaidyanathan

I am a senior concentrating in Computational Biology on a CS track. In the Larschan Lab, I analyze CLAMP’s interactions with RNA to better understand its role in alternative splicing. My research interests are understanding biochemical mechanisms through a computational lens.

Angelica Aragon Vasquez

I am a senior at Brown University studying biology. I am interested in understanding the mechanisms of dosage compensation in Drosophila at the Larschan Lab.

 

Former undergraduates

  • Caroline Doherty, Graduate Student, Princeton

  • Jessica Feng, Alumna of UMass Medical

  • Julia Gross, Graduate student, Emory

  • Aneesha Tewari, Graduate student MIT

  • Sonia Boor, Graduate student MIT

  • Erica Nguyen, Broad Institute postgraduate program

  • Renee Soto

  • Rachel Lee Brigham and Women’s post-baccalaureate program

  • Isaac Nathoo

  • Mary McKenney

  • Hana Takei Harvard Medical School Post-baccalaureate program

  • Annie Huang Fulbright Scholar in Vienna, Austria

  • Samra Beyene Harvard Medical School Post-baccalaureate program

  • Claire Gray, Graduate Student, University of Chicago

  • Nathan Nigrin, Lab Technician at MIT Whitehead Institute

  • Justin Curie, Graduate student, Sloan-Kettering

Former lab members

  • Dr. Leila Reider (Assistant Professor, Emory University, Atlanta, GA) Recipient of K99/R00, F31, NSF grants

  • Dr. William Jordan (Director of Computational Biology, Glaxo Smith Kline) 

    Recipient of HHMI Gilliam Fellowship, NSF grant

  • Dr. Marcela Soruco (Group Leader, Biosearch Pharmaceuticals, Novado, CA)

    Recipient of F31 Diversity award

  • Dr. Jessica Chery (Analyst at the FDA, Washington, DC)

    Recipient of F31 Diversity award

  • Dr. Emily Kaye (Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School)

  • Dr. Jennifer Urban (Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins)

    Recipient of F31 Award and ACS Postdoctoral Fellowship

  • Dr. Guray Kuzu (Computational Biology Group leader, Novartis, San Diego, CA)

  • Dr. Jason Dobson (Computational Biologist, Boston, MA)

  • Dr. Ellie Duan (Assistant Professor, Animal Science, Cornell University)

  • Dr. Ashley Conrad (Microsoft Research)

  • Dr. Jeremy Bigness (Agilent Research)

  • Dr. Mukulika Ray(Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA)

  • James Kentro, (Post-Doctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute, Munich, Germany)