Mustafa Mir
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Pennsylvania
Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Core Member, Penn Epigenetics Institute
Member, Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Graduate Group Affiliations: CAMB, BE, BMB
2015-2020: Postdoc, University of California, Berkeley (Tjian and Darzacq Lab)
2009-2013: PhD, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Quantitative Light Imaging Lab, Gabriel Popescu)
email: mirm at chop.edu
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Staff
Puttachai "Net" Ratchasanmuang
Research Associate
Research Interests: Transcription regulation, embryo patterning
2021-: Research Associate, Mir Lab
2016-2021: Research Specialist, Shawn Little's Lab, Univ. of Pennsylvania
2014-2016: Research Specialist, Thomas Gregor's Lab, Princeton University
2012-2014: Research Technician, Erica M. Selva's Lab, University of Delaware
2012: M.Sc., Molecular Biology & Genetics, University of Delaware
2008: B.Sc, Biology, Dickinson College
Email: ratchasanp at chop.edu
Samantha Jaworski
CCGM Office Manager
Samantha Jaworski is the Office Manager for the Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She holds a BS in Biobehavioral Health and academic minors in Health Policy and Administration and Psychology from The Pennsylvania State University, Main. She earned her MBA from Haub School of Business at Saint Joseph’s University in 2019. She has been working at CHOP since 2016 and provides administrative support for the Center.
Email: colest at .chop.edu
Allison Fantauzzi
CCGM Administrative Director
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Allison Fantauzzi is the Administrative Director for the Center for Computational and Genomic Medicine. She holds an Executive MBA from Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and a BS in Business Administration from Centenary University. She has worked in business administration, finance, and operations for 25 years, and has been with CHOP for 2 years.
Email: fantauzzia at chop.edu
Postdocs
Apratim Mukherjee
Postdoc
Research Interests: Mechotransduction of transcription, light-sheet microscopy
2021-: Postdoc, Mir Lab
2016-2020: PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech, (STEP Lab)
2010-2014: B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Lafayette College
Email: mukherjea1 at chop.edu
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Santosh Adhikari
Postdoc
Research Interests: Single-molecule tracking, super-resolution imaging
2022-: Postdoc, Mir Lab
2014-2022: PhD, Biophysics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, (Puchner Lab)
2010-2012: B.S., Physics, Southern Methodist University
Email: adhikaris2 at chop.edu
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Graduate Students
Kaeli Mathias
Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Genetics T32 Fellow
Research Interests: Chromatin, cancer, nuclear organization, single molecule tracking
2020-Present: Graduate Student (co-mentored with Liling Wan's Lab in Cancer Biology), Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
2018-2020-Research Technician in Dr. Charles Roberts Lab, St. Jude Children's Hospital
2014-2018 BA Chemistry, Amherst College
Email: kaelim at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Alan Boka
Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, SBMB T32 Fellow
Research Interests: Transcriptional dynamics during early embryogenesis; intrinsically disordered proteins and nuclear organization; single-particle microscopy and quantitative biophysical modelling.
2020-Present: Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
2016-2020: B.S. Biochemistry, University of Rochester
2017-2020: Laboratory Assistant, Lab of Dr. Wei Hsu, University of Rochester Medical Center
Email: bokaa at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Samantha "S" Fallacaro
Graduate Student, Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology
Research Interests: Transcription regulation, nuclear organization, embryonic patterning
2021-Present: Graduate Student, Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology
2017-2021: B.Sc. Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
Email: samantha.fallacaro at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Gabriela Hayward-Lara
Graduate Student, Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology
Research Interests: Chromatin Dynamics, Polycomb mediated repression
2021-Present: Graduate Student, Developmental, Stem Cell, and Regenerative Biology
2017-2021: B.A. Molecular Biology, Princeton University
Email: gabriela.hayward-lara at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Raymond Carter
Graduate Rotation Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
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Research Interests: Transcription
2022-Present: Graduate Student, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics
2016-2020: B.S. Neuroscience and Medicine, Health, and Society, Vanderbilt University
Email: Raymond.carter at pennmedicine.upenn.edu
Undergraduate Researchers
Ernesto Gamauf
Undergraduate Researcher
January 2022-Present: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Student in Biology at the University of Pennsylvania since 2020
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Kareena Shankta
Undergraduate Researcher
November 2022-Present: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Undergraduate Student in Vagelos Life Sciences and Management and in Computational Biology and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania since 2022
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Alumni
Staff
Mattisen Dimler - Research Technician 07/2022-03/2023. Last known position: Scientist at Parexel (Merck)
Nicholas Gattone - Research Technician 01/2021-09/2021. Last known position: Scientist at Spark Therapeutics
Graduate Rotation Students
Sena Sarıkaya- DSRB Rotation Student 09/2022-12/2022. Last known position: DSRB PhD student @Penn
Adam Jabak - BMB Rotation Student 04/2021-06/2021. Last known position: BMB PhD student @Penn
Post-baccalaureate Researchers
Guzel Naik- 05/2021-06/2022. Last known position: Biology Graduate Student at University of Virginia
Undergraduate Researchers
Sarah O'Konski - 10/2021-05/2022. Last known position: Chemistry Undergraduate student @Penn
Cody Eskandarian - 06/2021-04/2022. Last known position: Biochemistry and Biophysics Undergraduate student @Penn
Summer Interns
Anna Crow - 06/2022-09/2022. Last known position: Undergraduate student at IISER Mohali, India
Sapna Krishnakumar - 07/2022-08/2022. Last known position: Undergraduate student at Univ. Leicester, UK
Patrick Samaha - 05/2021-08/2021. Last known position: Undergraduate student at UToronto, Canada