People
Top row: Axel Poulet (with Sevan), Max Bales, Hae-Rim Lee, Arthur Helwig, Andrew Verdesca
Below: Sudheesh AP, Josien van Wolfswinkel, Arcadia Kratkiewicz, Ida Kulidzan, Xinyi Zhou,
Josien van Wolfswinkel received her M.Sc. in Cell Biology from Utrecht University, Netherlands. For her graduate research she worked in the laboratories of Ronald Plasterk, Albert Heck, and Rene Ketting at Utrecht University and the Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology to study the molecular mechanism of RNA interference in the nematode C. elegans. After her postdoctoral research on planarian regeneration in the lab of Peter Reddien at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research / MIT, she has started her own lab in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University, working on the RNA biology of stem cells.
Josien van Wolfswinkel
josien(dot)van(dot)wolfswinkel(at)yale.edu
Postdocs
Hae-Rim obtained her M.Sc. in Botany and Microbiology from Yeung-Nam University in Korea. Her graduate work in the lab of Ki-Joong Kim in the Department of Taxonomy and Ecology at Korea University focussed on the phylogeny and evolution of jasmin. Her postdoctoral work took her from plants via genomics to planarians, and in the Van Wolfswinkel lab she studies the impact of transposons on planarian biology.
Hae-Rim Lee
hae-rim(dot)lee(at)yale.edu
Axel obtained his M.Sc. from Auvergne University in France specialising in bioinformatics and data modelling. He continued to obtain his PhD from Auvergne University and Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK working on 3D analysis of chromatin organization in a joint project between the labs of Christophe Tatout and David Evans. In the Van Wolfswinkel lab Axel continues this passion and studies the chromatin organisation of planarian cells.
Axel can tell you all you want to know about New Haven restaurants or about computational pitfalls - especially if you bring coffee.
Axel Poulet
axel(dot)poulet(at)yale.edu
Krishnakali graduated with a M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the University of Calcutta in India. She obtained her PhD in Genetic, Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Southern California working in the lab of Robert Maxon on the role of neural crest cells in cranial development. She is passionate about microscopy, and in the Van Wolfswinkel lab she is interested in the spatial dynamics of stem cells and regenerating tissues.
Krishnakali is an avid performer of Indian classical dance and a very talented teacher.
Krishnakali Dasgupta
krishnakali(dot)dasgupta(at)yale.edu
Sudheesh obtained his M.Sc. in Biotechnology from Mahatma Gandhi University in India. His PhD work in the lab of Rakesh Laishram at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology focussed on the regulation of RNA 3' end processing. In the Van Wolfswinkel lab he is disentangling the regulatory RNA pathways in planarians.
Sudheesh AP
sudheesh(dot)allikkaparambil(at)yale.edu
Graduate students
Arcadia received her B.A. in Biochemistry from Smith college, and gained further experience in molecular research as a postgraduate associate at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Arcadia is fascinated by chromatin biology and gene regulation and she studies the ways in which RNAs regulate chromatin in planarians.
Arcadia has a passion for science outreach and for baking the best cookies you ever tasted.
Arcadia Kratkiewicz
arcadia(dot)kratkiewicz(at)yale.edu
Andrew is a graduate from Brown University with a double major in Biology and English. He has a passion for aging research and in the Van Wolfswinkel lab he is exploring the mechanisms that planarians use to maintain their apparently indefinite life spans.
Andrew also is an extremely fast skier and talented writer which he uses for making complex science accessible to a wide audience.
Andrew Verdesca
andrew(dot)verdesca(at)yale.edu
Yan received her B.Sc. from Beijing University. Yan has a solid background in biochemistry, and will now apply this to study the regulation of the planarian stem cells. She is also interested in computational approaches to enhance her cell biological studies.
Yan enjoys reading and sharing food with friends.
Yan Cheng
yan(dot)cheng(at)yale.edu
Karina received her B.A. from Harvard University, with a major in Neuroscience and a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She splits her time between the Van Wolfswinkel Lab and the Carlson lab to develop planarians into a full-fledged model for neuronal regeneration.
Karina is known to put out hilarious and informative polls for the YSB 2nd floor on topics nobody had thought about before.
Karina Ascunce Gonzalez
karina(dot)ascunce(at)yale.edu
Postgraduate Associates
Kaspar graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with a major in Biology. He is interested in a wide range of topics around developmental biology, genomics, and bioinformatics. He also enjoys skiing, scuba diving, and going to concerts with friends.
Kaspar Mazeika
kaspar(dot)mazeika(at)yale.edu
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Schmidty
(at)yale.edu
The old days
Summer 2021
Left to right: Andrew Verdesca, Eve Wattenberg, Arcadia Kratkiewicz, Krishnakali Dasgupta, Michael Zelko,
Francine Nihozeko, Anthony Chua, Danyan Li, Hae-Rim Lee, Axel Poulet, Sudheesh AP
Fall 2019
Danyan Li, Andrew Verdesca, Michael Zelko, Brian Jones, Francine Nihozeko
Fall 2017
Top: Danyan Li, Josien van Wolfswinkel, Carmen Conroy
Below: David Taylor, Brian Jones, Cliff Aquino
Summer 2016
