Meet Our Team

Anders Sejr Hansen

Principal Investigator
 Underwood-Prescott Career Development Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT
Post-doc: 2015-2019, UC Berkeley w. Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq
2010-2015: PhD, Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University with Erin O'Shea
2006-2010: MChem, Chemistry, Oxford University with Chris Schofield
email: ashansen {at} mit {dot} edu
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Danuta Forbes

Lab Administrator
2021 September - present: Administrative Assistant II, School of Engineering, MIT
2016-2021, Tufts University, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy
1988-1992: BA, English Literature, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
email: dmforbes {at} mit {dot} edu

Michele Gabriele

NIH K99 Pathway to Independence and American-Italian Cancer Research Post-doc Fellow
2020 Feb - present: Post-doc
2019-2020: Post-doc, European institute of oncology, Milan, Italy, with Giuseppe Testa
2014-2019: PhD, Systems Medicine, University of Milano, Italy, with Giuseppe Testa
2011-2013: MSc, Molecular Biological Sciences, University of Pisa
2007-2011: BSc, Molecular Biological Sciences, University of Pisa
email: micheleg {at} mit {dot} edu
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Angelina Schorr

MSRP Summer student

email: aschorr {at} mit {dot} edu

Viraat Goel

BE Graduate Student and LGO MBA Student
KI Fellowship
2019  - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2015-2019: BSc, Bioengineering, University of Illinois

email: viraat {at} mit {dot} edu

Jin (Harvey) Yang

BE Graduate Student
Mathworks Fellowship and KI Fellowship
2019  - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2016-2019: BSc, Bioengineering, Rice University

email: harvey1 {at} mit {dot} edu

ORCID

Christos Katsifis

Technical Associate I
2022  - present: Technical Associate
2018-2022: MA, Biological Sciences, Magdalen College, University of Oxford

email: katsifis {at} mit {dot} edu

Miles Huseyin

NIH F32 and EMBO post-doc fellow
2020 Oct - present: Post-doc
2015-2020: DPhil, Biochemistry, University of Oxford, with Robert Klose
2011-2015: MBioChem, St Catherine's College, University of Oxford

email: mhuseyin {at} mit {dot} edu

Sarah Nemsick

BE graduate student
NSF Graduate Fellow
2020 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2016-2020: BSc, Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

email: snemsick {at} mit {dot} edu

ORCID

Domenic Narducci

BE graduate student
2020 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2016-2020: SB, Biological Engineering, MIT

email: domenicn {at} mit {dot} edu

ORCID

Andrea Perry

Physics graduate student
2021  - present: PhD student, Physics, MIT
2017-2021: B.S. Engineering Physics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2017-2021: B.S. Materials Science and Engineering , University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

email: anperry {at} mit {dot} edu

Jamie Drayton

BE graduate student
2022 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2017-2021: BSc, Chemical-Biological Engineering, MIT

email: jdrayton {at} mit {dot} edu

James Jusuf

BE graduate student
2023 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2017-2021: SB, Physics, Caltech

email: jjusuf {at} mit {dot} edu

Clarice Hong

2023 March  - present: Post-doc
2016 - 2023: PhD, Washington University in St Louis with Barak Cohen
2012 - 2015: BSc, National University of Singapore

email: ckyhong {at} mit {dot} edu

Matteo Mazzocca

2023 April  - present: Post-doc
2018 - 2023: PhD, San Raffaele University, Italy with Davide Mazza
2013 - 2015: MSc, Functional Genomics, University of Trieste
2006-2009: BSc, Agricultural Science, University of Padova

email: matteom {at} mit {dot} edu

Sumin Kim

2023 August  - present: Post-doc
2016 - 2023: PhD, University of Michigan with William Dauer and Sami Barmada
2010 - 2014: BSc, MIT

email: suminkim {at} mit {dot} edu

2022 Group Photo

2021 Group Photo

Alumni

Name

Hugo Brandão


Emma Magee

Asmita Jha

Denise MacPhail

Luoyu Zhang

Shdema Filler-Hayut

Time and Position

02/2020 - 01/2022: Harvard Biophysics Graduate student (joint w. Leonid Mirny) and brief post-doc

06/2021 - 07/2022: Technical Associate I

06/2020 - 08/2022: Technical Associate I

02/2020 - 08/2022: Administrative Assistant

02/2020 - 04/2023: Technical Associate I

09/2020 - 06/2023: Post-doctoral Associate

Current position

Scientist, Illumina


Graduate student, Stanford University

Graduate student, Yale University

Retired

Graduate student, Harvard University

Asmita Jha

Hugo Brandão

Emma Magee

Luoyu Zhang

Shdema Filler-Hayut

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