The Verzi Lab Team
The Verzi lab has been fortunate to house an exciting team of undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and staff. They’ve done inspiring work and occasionally engaged in ridiculous Slack chats.
Top to Bottom and Left to Right: Rohit Aita, Bailey Warder, Aditya Parthasarathy, Natalie Toke, Kevin Tong, Lei Chen, Mike Verzi, Pooja Shah, Shirley Luo, Oscar Pellon Cardenas.
May 5, 2021 as we say goodbye to Kat!
Mike, Katherine Haro, Manisha Bandari, Jill Carrick, Kevin Tong, Kiran Vemuri, Lei Chen, and Meifan Zhang
Summer 2023, before Rohit heads to Pitt and Sohaib heads to Stanford!
Jahangir Iqbal, Rohit Aita, Sohaib Hassan, Rachel Ofer, Uyen Nguyen, Kiran Vemuri, Mike Verzi, Prateeksha Rout, and Oscar Pellon Cardenas.
Rocking our new lab shirts in 2023 to celebrate Sohaib heading to Stanford! Heba, Sneha K2, Allie, Jahangir, Mike, Sohaib, Rachel, Kiran, Prateeksha, Oscar, Rahma, Tyler, and Sneha K1 are in on the fun!
Uyen successfully defends in September, 2023!
Uyen Nguyen, Rachel Ofer, Prateeksha Rout, Kiran Vemuri, Ping He, Xia Qiu, Winston Huang, Dennis Aldea, Allie Logerfo, and Jahangir Iqbal.
Mike Verzi
Duncan and Nancy MacMillan Chair in Cancer Genomics
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco
Mike is thankful for his mentors at TCNJ (Lovett), UCSF (Black), and Dana Farber (Shivdasani). Now in the mentor role, he tries to stay out of everyone’s way.
Jahangir Iqbal
AM University, Aligarh
Jahangir is an expert in using mouse genetics to dissect physiological mechanisms and coordinates several projects in the lab.
Ping He
SUNY Stoney Brook, MD, PhD
Ping is a GI fellow at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson and will be joining the lab soon
Oscar Pellón Cardenas
Ph.D., Notre Dame University
New Jersey Commission on Cancer Research Fellow
Oscar is pursuing mechanisms of BRAF-driven tumor formation
Kiranmayi Vemuri
American Heart Association Graduate Fellowship
Kiran is studying basic transcriptional mechanisms driving intestinal homeostasis and in diet-induced obesity
Alexandra Logerfo
Georgetown University
NIH-funded T32 and F31 Graduate Student
Allie is investigating the mechanisms of BMP signaling using complex mouse genetic models
Xia Qiu
Xia is picking apart the mechanisms to make the brush border, a super-cool cellular structure on the apical surface of absorptive epithelial cells
Rachel Ofer
NCI Fellowship Funding - Rachel is trying to define how transcription factors control the regenerative response to damage of the intestine
Undergraduates
Rutgers University has lots of talented undergraduate students. We wish we could take more into our group….
Alumni
Lei Chen - NJCCR Fellow - Started her lab at Southeast University in 2022
Kevin Tong - K99 Awardee - Started his lab at Hackensack Meridian Health, Center for Discovery & Innovation, 2022
Ansu Perekatt - K22 Awardee - Started her lab at Stevens Institute of Technology, 2018
Uyen Nguyen - T32 Postdoc Fellow at CHOP
Namit Kumar - PhD student, now in Precision Oncology/Bioinformatics at Bristol Myers Squibb