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Heankel Lyons

Heankel Lyons is interested in understanding how proteins organize in enigmatic cellular assemblies known as biomolecular condensates to regulate gene expression in healthy and sick neurons. In her graduate work, Heankel demonstrated how disordered protein regions, important in biomolecular condensates, are deployed to functionally and selectively organize the machinery that activates our genes in development and cancer. Now, in the Gitler lab, she is investigating… Continue reading »

Michelle Stackmann

Michelle Stackmann (she/her/ella) is a postdoctoral scholar in Lisa Giocomo’s lab in the Department of Neurobiology. Her research focuses on investigating how multiple dynamic biological processes, such as gene expression and neural activity, work together to support cognition. Specifically, her postdoctoral work investigates how molecular mechanisms and neural populations in the hippocampus support the formation of spatial memories using genetic tools and large-scale neural recordings.… Continue reading »

Tigist Menkir

Tigist(Tiggy) is a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Nathan Lo’s and Professor Jason Andrews’ groups currently focused on modeling the impact of typhoid vaccination strategies in diverse country settings. She is broadly interested in developing models to improve infectious disease monitoring in data-limited settings and among socially vulnerable populations. Prior to Stanford, she completed her PhD in population health sciences at Harvard, based at the Center… Continue reading »

Rebecca Buchanan

Rebecca’s research is broadly focused on the circadian regulation of oligodendroglia and myelin and their impact on regulating neural circuitry. Specifically, she seeks to understand the modulatory contributions of oligodendroglia in sleep circuitry in Alzheimer’s disease and aging. Rebecca earned BSs in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology at the University of Georgia. She then earned her PhD in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in… Continue reading »

Hannah Vicars

Hannah Vicars (she/her) is a Propel Postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Margaret Fuller’s lab in the Department of Developmental Biology. Hannah is fascinated by how cells make “decisions”, particularly the molecular circuitry that controls how cells transition from a dividing state to becoming specialized cell types. She earned her B.S. and Ph.D. in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, under… Continue reading »

Skylar Holmes

Dr. Holmes’ research focuses on understanding the mechanisms behind knee osteoarthritis development and creating biomechanically-driven, evidence-based interventions to improve mobility. Utilizing functional MRI, mechanical pain sensitivity tests, and structural MRI of the knee, Dr. Holmes aims to develop objective methods to characterize pain in knee osteoarthritis, identifying pain profiles linked to worsening symptoms and functional decline. Dr. Holmes earned her PhD in Kinesiology from the… Continue reading »

Ivy Hoang

Ivy Hoang, PhD is a postdoctoral scholar working with Dr. William Giardino in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. As a first-generation college graduate of Chinese and Vietnamese immigrant parents, Ivy earned her BS in Physiology/Neuroscience with a minor in Psychology at UCSD. She then went on to earn her PhD in Psychology with a focus in Behavioral Neuroscience at UCLA. Her graduate thesis… Continue reading »

Callie Weber

Callie Weber, PhD (she/her) is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery with Dr. Fan Yang. Her research broadly focuses on how cellular metabolism changes with age, and how these shifts influence tissue repair and disease development. In the Yang Lab, Callie is applying these interests to bone regeneration, aiming to identify metabolic interventions to accelerate bone healing after fractures. Callie earned her… Continue reading »

Sarah Sturgill

Sarah Sturgill, PhD (she/her) is a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Mark Mercola’s lab in the Cardiovascular Institute within the Department of Medicine. Her research focuses on targeting the molecular consequences of inherited dilated cardiomyopathies for drug development in human induced pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocytes (iPSC-CMs). She is particularly interested in cellular trafficking and post-translational modifications that modulate contractile function. She received her B.S. in Chemistry… Continue reading »

Kaelan Brennan

Kaelan Brennan, PhD (he/him) is a postdoctoral scholar in Dr. Joanna Wysocka’s lab in the Department of Chemical and Systems Biology within the Stanford School of Medicine. Dr. Brennan is broadly interested in the chromatin, epigenomic, and gene regulatory mechanisms that determine cell fate during development. Using genomics approaches and cell culture models, he is specifically focused on understanding how the activity of transcription factors—DNA-binding… Continue reading »