Krishna C. Mudumbi, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor/PI, Cell and Developmental Biology

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Krishna completed his undergraduate work at Emory University, after which he worked in industry for some time before getting his Master’s from Saint Joseph’s University working in the lab of Edwin Li on fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3) dimerization. He went on to work in Weidong Yang’s lab at Temple University for his graduate studies, where he used single-molecule microscopy to study the distribution of transmembrane proteins on the nuclear envelope, and their transport through the nuclear pore complex. Krishna joined the lab of Mark Lemmon at Yale University, where he was an NCI Early K99 Fellow and used his expertise with single-molecule microscopy to understand the mechanisms of EGFR signaling. The Mudumbi lab opened in January 2025 in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University. Krishna has been a passionate advocate of trainees throughout his career and greatly values strong mentorship and sponsorship of his trainees. Outside of the lab, Krishna can be found spending time with his family, enjoying music and playing the guitar, and playing boardgames (perhaps a bit too competitively)!

• : krishna.mudumbi@vanderbilt.edu

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