ASAD LAKHANI, GRADUATE STUDENT
Asad joined the lab in May 2019. Asad is working to develop novel CRISPR-based chromosome engineering tools to study cancer aneuploidy.
saron akalu, technician
Saron joined the lab in July 2022, after graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Integrative Biology. Saron is conducting CRISPR screens in isogenic aneuploid cell lines.
Brianna Mendelson, technician
Brianna joined the lab in November 2021 after graduating from Binghamton University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences and Spanish. She is studying the role of Chromosome 1q amplifications in melanoma.
Klaske Schukken, postdoc
Klaske received her PhD from the University of Groningen. Klaske is conducting CRISPR screens to identify aneuploidy-associated therapeutic vulnerabilities.
Jason Sheltzer, PI and Assistant Professor
Jason Sheltzer received an A.B. in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following graduation, Jason established his own research group as an Independent Fellow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. In 2021, the Sheltzer Lab moved from CSHL to the Yale School of Medicine.
jaweria bakar, undergrad
Jaweria Bakar is an undergraduate student in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University. Jaweria is investigating the off-target effects of anti-cancer drugs.
JOAN SMITH, SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Joan graduated with a B.Sc. in physics from MIT, and is currently a full-time engineer at Google, working on their cloud platform. In her work with the Sheltzer Lab, Joan builds tools to analyze cancer survival data and identify novel biomarkers associated with cancer patient prognosis.
Devon Lukow, graduate student
Devon is a graduate student in the Genetics department at Stony Brook University. Devon is characterizing the role of aneuploidy and chromosomal instability in drug resistance.
Kate Long, undergrad
Kate joined the lab in July 2018, and is currently an undergraduate at Barnard College majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biology. Kate is investigating the roles of executioner caspases in mediating drug-induced cancer cell death.
Leanne brown, physician
Leanne is currently a surgical resident at Yale New Haven Hospital. She is seeking to identify anti-cancer drugs that are selective for cells with aneuploidies of chromosome 1q.
ryan hagenson, computational biologist
Ryan is a computational biologist who joined the lab in May 2022. Fueled by coffee and advised by a league of rubber ducks, Ryan manages all areas of computational biology within the lab.
Sarah thompson, staff scientist
Sarah received a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Dartmouth College. Sarah is using CRISPR-based chromosome engineering tools to study specific chromosomal gains in tumorigenesis.
eric stevens, undergrad
Eric joined the lab in October 2021. Eric is an undergraduate at Yale University majoring in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. Eric is working on identifying candidate oncogenes that drive recurrent aneuploidies.
LINDA JULIAN, STAFF SCIENTIST
Linda is studying CDK11 inhibition as a novel anti-cancer strategy.
claire sattler, undergrad
Claire is an undergraduate at Yale who is double majoring in MCDB and Theater & Performance Studies. She studies aneuploid-selective cancer therapeutics and sings a lot while doing it.
Debanjan Bhattacharjee, POSTDOC
Debanjan joined the lab in May 2022 as a postdoc to study the on-target and off-target effects of cancer drugs.
Greg Gauthier-Coles, POSTDOC
Greg joined the lab in December 2022 as a postdoc to develop new approaches to characterize the mechanisms of anti-cancer drugs
alumni
Nicole Sayles, Research Technician (2015-2017). Currently: Graduate student at Weill Cornell.
Chris Giuliano, Undergraduate (2015-2018). Currently: Graduate student at MIT.
Ann Lin, Undergraduate (2015-2019). Currently: Graduate student at Stanford.
Ann Palladino, Research Technician (2017-2019). Currently: Medical student at Weill Cornell.
Luwei (Lucy) Liu, Undergraduate (2018-2019). Currently: Graduate student at Harvard.
Monet Yuan, High School Student (2017-2018), Undergraduate (2019-2021). Currently: MD/PhD student at UCSF.
Erin Sausville, Technician (2019-2022). Currently: Invasive Species Technician, New York State Parks Department.
Vish Girish, Undergraduate (2018-2020), Technician (2020-2022). Currently: MD/PhD student at Johns Hopkins.