Lab People
macara-lab
Miki Daniel
Lab Manager
Miki is studying the apical intercalation of cells into epithelial monolayers, and using mouse models to study mammary gland development.
Christian de Caestecker
CDB graduate student
Christian uses synthetic biology and single molecule approaches to investigate delivery of polarity proteins to the cell membrane
Loic Fort, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Loic is investigating the roles of mechanical forces and signaling in mesoderm specification of human pluripotent stem cells.
Adeel Koshal
Undergrad honors student
Adeel is studying a little-understood process called transendocytosis, through which membrane proteins are transmitted between cells. He is using synthetic biology to investigate the transfer mechanism.
Paola Molina, Ph.D.
Paola is determining the mechanism by which Ras-transformed cancer cells are extruded from an epithelial monolayer.
Alex Pfannenstein
CDB graduate student
Alex has graduated and is now a postdoc with Tobias Meyer at Cornell
Aishwarya Venkataravi, PhD, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, CDB
Aishwarya is investigating the mechanism of apical intercalation, in which cells force their way into a pre-existing epithelial monolayer.
Jason Wang
Brentwood High School student
Jason is a high school student in Brentwood. He is now at MIT. He was working on early events triggered by activation of oncogenic Ras.