Postdocs
Stephanie StranskY
Stephanie is the first official postdoc of the Sidoli lab! She joined us in September 2019, and she will work on developing methods to quantify chromatin states. She is also our leader in the 3D cell biology, and she is definitely better at soccer than any of us!
Edwin J. Yoo
Edwin is a rising Cardiology fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital who will be working with us in collaboration with the Kass lab to apply proteomics approaches to the study of Cardiovascular disease with the goal of identifying novel diagnostics and therapeutics for the treatment of Heart Failure. He enjoys playing the electric guitar and Korean BBQ.
Yan Sun
Yan is officially part of the laboratory of Dr. Michael Brenowitz (link), but he shuttles every day in our team for mass spectrometry. He develops and conducts "Protein oxidative footprinting" for higher order structure analysis and mapping the protein-protein or protein-nucleic acid interfaces. He also develops new methods for glycomics and DNA modification analysis. He even conducted reactions inside mass spec during his Ph.D. He loves hiking, skiing and planting!
PhD students
Sarah Graff
Sarah graduated from Yeshiva University in the spring of 2019 with a bachelors in molecular biology and computer science. She has participated in research projects at the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Future author of the Graff graph algorithm.
Jazmine-Saskya Joseph
Jazmine is a PhD candidate currently rotating in the lab. She went to CUNY Hunter College for undergrad where she discovered her love of research after volunteering in a lab that investigates racial disparities across multiple types of solid tumors. After graduating with a B.A. in Biological Sciences, she did a two-year postbaccalaureate program at Columbia University where she studied how the different multimeric forms of the tumor suppressor p53 can affect its function. Jazmine is currently interested in understanding how the modulation of epigenetics by social determinants of health can affect disease phenotype and how this can be used in risk assessment and disease prevention. She enjoys professional wrestling, platform and fighting video games, art and animation, animals of all kinds (especially her own), and supporting marginalized communities.
Ronald Cutler
Ronnie is a PhD student in the lab that is interested in studying the epigenetic mechanisms of how humans age and factors that grant exceptional longevity. He is being co-mentored with Dr. Jan Vijg. He has graduated from The College of William & Mary with a Bachelors in Biology and Computer Science and The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio with a Masters in Biotechnology. Ronnie enjoys training for triathlons and playing with his three cats.
Dejauwne Young
Dejauwne is an MD/PhD student working with our lab and the lab of Dr. Chandan Guha. He graduated in 2017 from the University of Southern California with a BA in Neuroscience. He enjoys exercise, watching sports (NBA and NFL), and going to comedy shows. He is excited to learn how to use mass spectrometry to better understand cancer immunogenicity and chromatin biology.
Ankita Poojari
Ankita is a visitor PhD student coming from the lab of Dr. Atefeh Rabiee's lab at the University of the Pacific. Currently, her project focuses on understanding pathophysiology of Lipedema, a chronic fat disorder exclusively affecting women. Her primary aim in learning mass spectrometry is to find novel targets for this disease which can then further be used for drug screening. In her spare time, she enjoys cooking, going on hikes and hanging out with her cats.
Agnese Razzoli
Agnese is a visiting PhD student from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. After completing her Master’s degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, she moved towards translational research at the Main Hospital of Reggio Emilia, Italy, where she is conducting her research activity. In particular, her PhD project focuses on the biochemical characterization of an aggressive breast cancer subtype (luminal B HER2-negative) with the aim of finding novel biomarkers to implement patient stratification at diagnosis and thus better tailor therapies, but also to shed light on the heterogeneity of this subtype.
Maxwell Horton
Max is a PhD student rotating in the lab. In 2023, he graduated from Hobart College with a bachelors in biochemistry. He is interested in developing techniques for spatial proteomics. Outside of the lab, he enjoys cooking new foods and hiking with friends.
Core personnel
Jennifer T. Aguilan
Jenny works with us and with Pathology. She is a specialist of mass spectrometry-imaging, but she runs a lot of proteomics experiments as well. She works on the development of multiple assays for patient diagnostics.
Carlos madrid-aliste
Carlos is our bioinformatician, scientific programmer, database expert, system administrator etc. He is always on top of our informatics problems, whichever they are. He has a lot of patience with us, which he developed by packing and carrying percussions everywhere. In fact, Carlos is a percusionist with a non-profit drum and dance company!