
Lab Members

Michael J. Ragusa, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Research Associate, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Ph.D., Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI
B.S., Biochemistry, Siena College, Loudonville, NY



Sarah Najera, Graduate Student
B.S., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA

Kelsie Leary, Graduate Student
B.A., Chemistry & Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Erin Reinhart, Graduate Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
B.S., Chemistry with a concentration in Biochemistry, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN
Devika Andhare, Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
M.Sc., Dept. of Biochemistry, M.S. University, Baroda, India
Sarah Katzenell, Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Biology, Dartmouth College
M.Sc., Biomedical Research Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
B.A., Biomedical Research Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Undergraduate Researchers

Michael Moyo
E.E. Just Undergraduate Fellow

Samantha Hedley
Undergraduate Researcher
Lab Alumni
Katherine Bauer, PhD
Xue (Sherry) Xia, PhD
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, 2021
Currently a Development Scientist at New England Biolabs
Department of Molecular Cell Biology, 2020
Currently a Scientist at WuXi AppTec
Alejandro Damasio Gil, PhD
Skyler Perot, MS '19, BS '18
Department of Chemistry, 2019
Currently a Senior Scientist at AbbVie
Department of Chemistry
Currently a PhD student at CECAD, University of Cologne
Hannah Margolis, BS '20
Elizabeth Bloom, BS '18
Undergraduate Researcher (2017-2020)
Currently a PhD Student at MIT
Undergraduate Researcher (2016-2018)
Currently a medical student at Duke University
Folasade Akinfe '20
Rose Dicovitsky, BS '14
Undergraduate Researcher (2018)
B.S. in the Department of Biology; Research Scientist (2014-2016)
Currently a student at The University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School