Camille Ashbaugh
Technician
Current Position: Technical Research Assistant, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Yijie Ma, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Yijie is a postdoctoral research fellow with dual appointments to the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at the Harvard Medical School (HMS). Yijie earned his Ph.D. in...
Chang Jiang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Moffitt Cancer Center
Ina Ersing
PhD Student
Current Position: Scientist, Addgene
Liangwei Wang
PhD Student
Born and raised in sunny Singapore, Liang Wei won an Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR) National Science Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and obtained his bachelors degree in Natural Sciences (Biological) with concentrations in...
Stephen Trudeau
Technical Research Assistant
Steve was a technical research assistant in the Gewurz lab for 2 years. He is currently an MD-PhD student at Columbia University
Michael Walsh
Technician
Michael was a technical research assistant for 2 years in the Gewurz lab. He then matriculated into the Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, where he completed his doctoral studies with Drs. David Knipe and Stephanie Dougan at Harvard Medical School....
Sarah Mollo, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hannah Greenfeld
Technical Research Assistant
Hannah was a technical research assistant in the Gewurz lab for 2 years. She then pursued doctoral studies in the Mullins Laboratory, Department of Cell & Molecular Biology, University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Cal Tech
Kaoru Takasaki
Technical Research Assistant
Current Position: Instructor in Pediatric Oncology and Attending Physician, CHOP, University of Pennsylvania
Merrin Leong, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow
Merrin Leong did his doctoral research at Hong Kong University in the laboratory of Maria Lung, where he studied Epstein-Barr virus infection roles in regulation of host histone modifications. Merring identified that EBV infections induces histone bivalent switches in squameous...
Jin Hua Liang
Graduate Student
Jin Hua pursued her graduate research in the Gewurz lab. Jin Hua's research focused on the regulation of nucleotide metabolism and NF-kB in EBV-transformed B-cells, where she identified key roles for the enzymes CTPS1 and CTPS2 in cytosine nucleotide metabolism...
Yuchen Zhang
Graduate Student
Yuchen's graduate studies focused on how host histone chaperones regulate EBV latency in EBV-transformed B-cells. She identified key roles for the CAF1 and HIRA complexes in control of EBV latency. She also characterized epigenetic mechanisms that control EBV latency and...
Stephanie Yiu
Third Year HMS Virology Graduate Student (G3)
Prior to matriculating in the Harvard Graduate Program in Virology, Stephanie did research in Alan Chiang's laboratory on EBV lytic reactivation in nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Stephanie is pursuing proteomic analyses of EBV host-pathogen interactions and studying a novel innate immune pathway...
Brunno Caetano
Visiting graduate student
Brunno Caetano is pursuing his graduate studies with Deilson Elgui de Oliveira in Brazil, and is spending one year in the Gewurz lab for collaborative studies of EBV/host interactions in B-cell lytic replication
Jewel Voyer
Jewel was a summer research intern visiting from University of Rhode Island. Jewel worked closely with Eric and Eshaani to study the the ferroptosis pathway in EBV-transformed cells and co-authored a manuscript in PNAS.
Laura Murray-Nerger
Post-doctoral Fellow
Laura joins us following her PhD studies at Princeton, where she studied human cytomegalovirus in the lab of Ileana Cristea. Laura used whole cell proteomic profiling to characterize roles of protein acetylation in host defense and HCMV replication and characterized...
Michael Lutchnekov
Technical Research Associate
Brenda Piedras Iturbide
Technical Research Associate
Brenda joined the Gewurz lab in 2021 after recently graduating from Trinity College with a double major in Biology and Public Policy & Law. Brenda pursued her undergraduate research in the Toscano lab at Trinity, where she focused on invertabrate...
Zhixuan Li
Graduate Student
Demi Yan
Graduate Student
Clarisel Lozano
Clarisel received a B.A from the University of North Carolina, where amongst her many research experiences she investigated the role of Microtubule Acetylation during Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and analyzed fluid dynamics in viral transmission from human expiratory activities. Clarisel is...
Chang Jiang
was a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Gewurz lab, currently an Assistant Professor at Moffitt Cancer Center
Mariana Bouchan
Mariana joined the lab as a rising Duke University sophomore. She worked closely with Eric Burton to characterize ferroptosis pathway subversion by EBV-infected Burkitt cells, particularly within the lytic cycle.
Marissa Padilla
Marissa joined us in 2023, when she was a rising senior at New Mexico State University, where she pursued a B.S. in Biology. Marissa worked closely with Dr. Laura Murray-Nerger to study roles of the acetyltransferase enzyme ESCO2 in control...
Wigdan Hissein
Wigdan joined us the summer of 2024, when she was a rising junior at Duke University, where she was pursuing a double major in Biology and Global Health. She is passionate about expanding her knowledge in infectious disease and contributing to the field of research and medicine. Wigdan worked closely with Dr. Eric Burton to investigate the role of latent membrane protein 1 (LMP1) in preventing ferroptosis in response to lipid peroxidation.
Anisa Cole
Anisa Cole joined us the summer of 2024 when she was a rising junior at Prairie View A&M University, where she is majoring in biology and minoring in chemistry. Anisa worked closely with Dr. Bidisha (Eshaani) Mitra to study the role of LMP1, a key protein in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-associated B cell cancers, using CRISPR "knock-in" techniques to tag and investigate its function in lymphoblastoid cell lines.
Rui Guo, PhD
Post-doctoral Fellow in the Gewurz lab, currently an Assistant Professor at Tufts Medical Center
Rui Guo received his PhD from Kansas State, where his thesis research with Ying Fan focused on procine reproductive and respiratory virus syndrome host/pathogen interactions. He discovered that PRSSV uses nanotubes for intracellular spread, that nanotubes also transfer mitochondria between...