YALE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons


Adnan Alladin

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Adrian Mehrtash

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Albert L Williams

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Aldo Salazar Morales

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Alexandra Bergfort

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Alexandra Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate School Student Class of '27

Allison Butt

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Allison Didychuk

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Alysha Auslender

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Alyssa Blaise

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Amber Thammavongsa


Andrew Miranker

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Chemical and Environmental Engineering

Andrew Olson

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Andy Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Angela Miccinello


Anthony Koleske

Job Titles:
  • Ensign Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Neuroscience YSM Deputy Dean of Scientific Affairs ( Basic Sciences )

Aruna Pawashe

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Austin Draycott

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Barbara Amendola

Job Titles:
  • Director, Finance & Administration - MB & B and MCDB
  • Lead Administrator

Barbara Fujita

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Beatrice Borsari

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Benjamin Silliman

Job Titles:
  • Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Boby Mathew

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate, Keck

Brendan Rose

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Brigitte Naughton

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Bryan Bogin

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Cagatay Dursun

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Candice Paulsen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Carl Zimmer

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Carol Martin


Caroline Focht

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Carolyn Breckel

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Carson Bryant

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Catharine Shipps

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Cecelia Harold

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student ( Genetics ), Class of '24

Charles Sindelar

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Charlotte Brannon

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Christian Fagre

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Christian Freniere

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Christian Schlieker

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology

Christopher Cameron

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Christopher King

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Cole Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Cong Shen

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '22

Courtney Brown

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Dagmar Zigackova

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Daisy Duan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Daniel DiMaio

Job Titles:
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology

Daniel Konstantinovsky

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '24

Daniela Simcikova

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

Danni Jin

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

David A. Sackler

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

David Flesher

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

David Hiller

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  • Research Scientist

David Schatz

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  • Professor and Chair of Immunobiology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

David W. Wallace

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  • Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Declan Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Denis Ostapenko

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Dieter Soll

Job Titles:
  • Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry

Donald Engelman

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Elaine Kupec


Elizabeth Black

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Ellen Corcoran

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '24

Emily Sutton

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Enrique M. De La Cruz - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
  • Incoming Chair ( As of 7 / 1 / 20 )

Erdem Karatekin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Erik Zavala

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Eugene Higgins

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics

Eve Wattenberg

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Ewa Folta-Stogniew

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Keck

Fidel Arizaga

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Franziska Bleichert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Frederick Sigworth

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, of Biomedical Engineering, and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Gabriela Casanova

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Gary Brudvig

Job Titles:
  • Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Giancarlo Ospina

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Guilin Wang

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist, Keck

Halie Sonnenschein

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Hao Xiong

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Henry Ford II

Job Titles:
  • Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Isaac Vock

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Isabelle Trier

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

J Patrick Loria

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Jackson Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Jake Thrasher

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '24

Jason Liu

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Jeff Frentress

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Jens Neu

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Jianfeng Lin


Jimin Wang


Joan Steitz

Job Titles:
  • Climate & Diversity Committee Chair
  • Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Joe Howard

Job Titles:
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Physics

Joel Rozowsky

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Joey Erwin

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

John Deacon

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

John F. Enders

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pediatrics ( Infectious Disease ) and Professor of Epidemiology ( Microbial Diseases ) and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Jonathan Warrell

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Josh Zimmer

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Joshua Temple

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Julien Berro

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Cell Biology

Justin Sanders

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Kai 'Jack' Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Kaifeng Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Karen Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Karen Parent

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Karla Neugebauer

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor

Katelyn Noronha

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '24

Katherine Schilling

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Kate Schilling studied Chemistry at the California State University - Northridge as a transfer student and earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the California Institute of Technology. After graduation, she worked as a forensic research scientist with the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Laboratory. In 2017, she came to Yale as an associate research scientist and lecturer in the department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and with Yale's Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. In 2022, she joined the teaching faculty of the department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry to focus on advancing undergraduate laboratory and research education. She prioritizes equity in the lab classroom and supporting a diverse student community. Her research interests include understanding the biophysical and biochemical mechanisms behind the senses and advancing forensics-related biochemical research

Kathryn Barth

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '24

Kayan Fairweather

Job Titles:
  • Financial Assistant

Kazimierz Tycowski

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Kehinde Taiwo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Kenneth Williams

Job Titles:
  • Professor ( Adjunct ) of Research of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Kevin Chung

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Kimberly Vish

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Klarissa Hollander

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Kyrillos Abdallah

Job Titles:
  • Graduate School Student Class of '27

Laura Miller


Leonard Schaerfen

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Lilian Kabeche

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Lillian Smith


Lisa Adams


Lisa Serman


Liz Vellali

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Registrar

Long Han

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Lori Iannicelli


Luisa Escobar-Hoyos

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Therapeutic Radiology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Luka Maisuradze

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Lynne Regan

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Chemistry

Marisa Michalchik

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Mark Solomon

Job Titles:
  • Director of Graduate Studies
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Mark Torres

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Mark W. Hochstrasser

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of MB & B
  • Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
  • Outgoing Chair ( As of 6 / 30 / 20 )
Mark Hochstrasser, Chair of MB&B on behalf of the MB&B faculty

Mason McCool

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Matthew Cook

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Matthew Guberman-Pfeffer

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Matthew Jensen

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Matthew Simon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
  • Director of Graduate Admissions

Matthew Steinsaltz

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Matthew Wang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Max Paul

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Maya Kerfoot

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Mayte Cerezo Matías

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Megan Meuser

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Melissa Carrizales

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Michael Koelle

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Michael Lacy

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Michael Vetick

Job Titles:
  • Graduate School Student

Michelle Cegelka


Mihali Felipe

Job Titles:
  • Systems Programmer

Mo Yang

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Mor Frank

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Morgan Shine

Job Titles:
  • Graduate School Student Class of '27

Muhammed Erguder

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Nancy Lu

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Natalie Krahn

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Nicholas Huston

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Nicholas Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Nigel Grindley

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Nikhil Malvankar

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Nooshin Shatery Nejad

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Olivia Hunker

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Paul Raccuia

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate, Cryo - EM

Pei-Ling Tsai

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Peter Dahl

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Peter Moore

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Prashant Emani

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Qi Shen

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Quinn Melton

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Assistant

Ran Meng

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Ran Yang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Raul Jobava

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Ritam Neupane

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Robert Niescier

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Robert Shulman

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Ronald Breaker

Job Titles:
  • Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Sabyasachi Sutradhar

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Sai Shashank Chavali

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Sandy Chang

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Laboratory Medicine, Pathology and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Sara Gelles-Watnick

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Sara Siwiecki

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '25

Sarah Prophet

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Sarah Slavoff

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Scott Strobel

Job Titles:
  • Provost and Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Professor of Chemistry

Seth Lyon

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '24

Seun Oladipupo

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer

Job Titles:
  • John Gamble Kirkwood Sterling Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Shawn Gray

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '22

Shivali Patel

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '23

Shivani Bhandarkar

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Shravani Balaji

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Sibel Yalcin

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist

Sonal Shree

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Stephen Chin-Bow

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Sumon Sahu

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Sunanda Mallik

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Sunitha Nallur

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant

Susan Baserga

Job Titles:
  • Director of Medical Studies

Susan Lori

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Susanna Liu

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Associate

Swapnil Chandrakant

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Takemasa Kawashima


Tanja Hann

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Tara Noel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Chair
  • Faculty and Academic Support Manager - Chairs Assistant

Therese Yario

Job Titles:
  • Research Associate

Thomas Pollard

Job Titles:
  • Sterling Professor Emeritus of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Thomas Torng

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Timur Galeev

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Titus Boggon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

TuKiet Lam


Vanessa Mondol

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Research Scientist

Waldemar Von Zedtwitz

Job Titles:
  • Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Genetics and Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and of Therapeutic Radiology

Wanqing Lyu

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student, Class of '21

Wei Mi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Pharmacology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Wei Zheng

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Wendy Gilbert

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Wendy Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate School Student Class of '27

Wenxiang Cao


William H. Fleming

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William Konigsberg

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Xianyun Ye


Xiao Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Yong Xiong

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yongli Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor in Cell Biology and of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Yuan Ren

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Yuchen Yang

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26

Yue Wang

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Zaida Washington

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
  • Operations Manager, Science Hill / YSM

Zane Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Associate

Zion Perry

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Student Class of '26