Meet Our Team

Anders Sejr Hansen

Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Biological Engineering, MIT
Class of 1943 Career Development Professor
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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Varshini Ramanathan

BE graduate student
2023 - present: PhD student, Biological Engineering, MIT
2019-2023: BSc, Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University
email: varsh {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

Jacob Kæstel-Hansen

Novo Nordisk Post-doc Fellow
2024 Aug – present: Post-doc
2022-2024: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Medical School, USA, with Tom Kirchhausen
2021-2024: PhD, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, with Nikos Hatzakis
2018-2021: MSc, Nanoscience, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2018-2019: MSc  exchange, University of Melbourne, Australia
2015-2018: BSc, Nanoscience, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
 
Jacobkh {at} mit {dot} edu
 
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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

Jack Toppen

CSB graduate student
2023  - present: PhD student, Computational and Systems Biology, MIT
2019-2023: BSc, Systems Biology, Georgia Tech
email: toppen {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

MIT-Novo Nordisk Artificial Intelligence Post-doc Fellowship
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

American-Italian Cancer Research Foundation Fellowship
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

MIT Post-doc Engineering Excellence Fellowship
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

Allison Vieira

Technical Associate I
2024  - present: Technical Associate
2020-2023 BSc Biotechnology, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

email: allis664 {at} mit {dot} edu

Michael Quezada

Harvard MD-PhD student (co-advised with Jason Buenrostro)
2023  - present:
2017-2021 Stanford

email: mquezada {at} hms.harvard {dot} edu

Coco Wu

Biology graduate student
2023 - present: PhD student, Biology, MIT (co-advised with Francisco Sánchez-Rivera)
2018-2021: BSc, Biochemistry, UCLA
email: ke_wu {at} mit {dot} edu

Masahiro Nagano

Daiichi Sankyo and HFSP post-doc fellow
2024 - present: Post-doc
2018- 2023: PhD, Kyoto University with Mitinori Saitou
2010 - 2016: MD, Kyoto Universityemail: mnagano {at} mit {dot} edu

Daria Sels

2024 - present: Research trainee (9 mo) and BAEF fellow
2023-present: Master Biomedical Research at Free University of Brussels
2020-2023: BSc Biomedical Sciences at Free University of Brussels

Dominique Dang

UROP
2023 - present: SB, Computer Science & Molecular Biology, MIT

email: ddang {at} mit {dot} edu

Ava Conyer

MSRP Summer student

email: aconyer {at} mit {dot} edu

Jing (Vicky) Liu

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BE summer rotation student.

email jl242 [at] mit {dot} edu

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2023 Group Photo

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2022 Group Photo

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2021 Group Photo

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Alumni

Name

Isadora de Abreu

Hugo Brandão


Emma Magee

Asmita Jha

Denise MacPhail

Luoyu Zhang

Shdema Filler-Hayut

Angelina Schorr

Christos Katsifis

Time and Position

06/2021 - 08/2021: MSRP Summer student

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

06/2023 - 09/2023: MSRP Summer student

09/2022 - 08/2024: Technical Associate I

Current position

Postbac at the NIH

Scientist, Illumina


Graduate student, Stanford University

Graduate student, Yale University

Retired

Graduate student, Harvard University

Bridge to PI program, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Graduate student, Brown University

Graduate student, Columbia University

Asmita Jha

Hugo Brandão

Emma Magee

Luoyu Zhang

Shdema Filler-Hayut

Andrea Perry

Angelina Schorr

Christos Katsifis

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