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Luke Chao
​Principal Investigator
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7th floor Simches Building 7.808
Phone: 617 724 3324
luke at chaolab dot org 
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​Favorite Album: OK Computer - Radiohead
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate
Important Mentors: John Kuriyan, Steve Harrison

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Virly Ananda
Research Technician
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B.A., Business Economics - Xiamen University
M.S., Bioinformatics and Data Analytics - Northeastern University

​7th Floor Simches Building, Bay S1

Email: ananda at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu
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Favorite Album: Coast To Coast - Westlife
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Pistachio
Important Mentors: Yang W. Lee, Paula Perez Navarro, Shiaoming Shi


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Tristan Bell
​HHWF Postdoctoral Fellow
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B.A. Molecular and Cell Biology - UC Berkeley
​Ph.D. Biology - MIT

​7th Floor Simches Building, Bay U1
Phone: 617 643 3324
Email: bell at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu
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Favorite Album: Say I am You - The Weepies
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Vanilla
Important Mentors: Robert Sauer, Tania Baker, Kathleen Collins, James Berger

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Friederike Benning
​SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow
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B.S., M.S. Interdisciplinary Sciences ETH Zurich
​Ph.D. Structural Biology & Biophysics Biozentrum - University of Basel

​7th Floor Simches Building, Bay U1
Phone: 617 643 3324
​Email: benning at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu
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Favorite Album: The Greatest Hits (1970 - 2002) - Elton John

​Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Cookie Dough
Important Mentors: Daniel Eriksson, Bostjan Kobe, Melanie Weisser, Nenad Ban, Timm Maier
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Sivakumar Boopathy
​Postdoctoral Fellow

B.E., M.Sc. Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Ph.D. UMass Medical

​7th Floor Simches Building, Bay S1
​Phone: 617 643 3324 
​Email: boopathy at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Favorite Album: Anything good on the radio
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Vanilla
​Important Mentor: Daryl Bosco

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Ana Sofia Botero
High School Research Assistant

East Boston High School

7th Floor Simches Building
Email: botero at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Favorite Album: Parachutes - Coldplay
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Chocolate Mint
Important Mentor: -
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Hiba Dardari
Undergraduate Student

Human Developmental Regenerative Biology & Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - Harvard University

7th Floor Simches Building
Email:
 dardari at molbio-research dot net

Favorite Album: Hozier - Hozier
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Macademia Nut Britle (Haagen-Dazs)
Important Mentors: Haley Amemiya PhD, Charles Davis PhD, Brian Fain

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Julie Finn
Administrative Assistant/Grant Coordinator


Medical Office Management and Medical Coding - Bunker Hill Community College, Northeastern University
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7th Floor Simches Building, 7250

​Email: finn at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Favorite Album:  Anything good on the radio
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:  Butter Pecan
​Important Mentors: Patricia Kelleher, R.N., Bradley Bernstein, MD., Ph.D., Sarah Stone, M.D,, Ph.D

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Michelle Fry
Postdoctoral Fellow

B.S. Biological Physics and Math - Brandeis University
Ph.D. Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics - Caltech

7th Floor Simches Building
Email: fry at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu 

Favorite Album: Live at Wembley ’86 - Queen
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Pistachio or mint
Important Mentors: Chris Miller, Douglas Theobald, Bil Clemons



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Coby Garcia
Undergraduate Student

Undergraduate Student in Bioengineering - Harvard College

7th Floor Simches Building, Bay T1
Email: cgarcia at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Favorite Album: My Everything - Ariana Grande
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Raspberry
Important Mentors: Jessica Gattuso, Brittany Ratcliff

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Anne Hakim
Research Specialist
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B.S., MSc. Biochemistry - National University of Malaysia
Ph.D. Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology - University of Michigan

7th Floor Simches Building 

Email: hakim at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu
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Favorite music album: Oldies Playlist
Favorite ice cream flavor: Blank Slate Creamery's Fresh Basil
Important Mentors: Anthony Vecchiarelli, Matthew Chapman, Ann Miller

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Matthew Keating
Undergraduate Student
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Cellular, Molecular, Genetic Biology - Boston University

7th Floor Simches Building 

Email: keating at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu
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Favorite music album: Any good Classical music stations
Favorite ice cream flavor: Rocky Road
Important Mentors: Kristen Bushell, Charles Kieswetter
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Bridget Luce
Research Technician
B.S. Chemistry - Nazareth College
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7th Floor Simches Building

​Email: luce at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Favorite Album:  Fearless (Taylor's Version) - Taylor Swift
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:  Lemon Sorbet
​Important Mentors: Sanela Lampa-Pastrik, Lauren Brooks
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Arezu Monshizadeh
Undergraduate Student
Biology - Boston University
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7th Floor Simches Building

​Email: monshizadeh at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Favorite Album:  SOS - SZA
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:  Ben & Jerry's Phish Food
​Important Mentors: Sassan Tabatabai, Mariam Ghavamian
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Paula Perez Navarro
SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow

Licentiate in Biology - Complutense University of Madrid
M.S. Molecular Biology, Biozentrum - University of Basel
Ph.D. Structural Biology and Biophysics Biozentrum - University of Basel

​7th Floor Simches Building, Bay S2
Phone: 617 643 3324
Email: ppnavarro at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

​Favorite Album: El Mal Querer - Rosalía
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Coconut
Important Mentors: Daniel Castaño-Díez, Henning Stahlberg



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Melody Nguyen
Research Technician
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B.S. Cellular and Molecular Biology - Johns Hopkins University

​7th Floor Simches Building
Email: nguyen at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

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Favorite Album: Father of the Bride - Vampire Weekend
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: New Zealand Hokey Pokey Ice cream or cookies and cream!
Important Mentors: Wayne Biddle, Tony Cammarato
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Lab Alumni

Department of Molecular Biology - MGH
Department of Genetics - HMS