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Current Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Praveen Sethupathy

Praveen Sethupathy, Ph.D.

Professor of Physiological Genomics
praveens@cornell.edu

 

 

 

 

 

Research Associate

Mike Shanahan Mike Shanahan, Ph.D.
mts253@cornell.edu
Senior Scientist and Lab Manager
Mike has over 12 years of experience in the field of gastrointestinal physiology.  His main areas of research focus in the Sethupathy lab include the role of microRNAs in controlling baseline intestinal stem cell (ISC) function and the contributions of microRNAs to host:microbe interactions.

Graduate Students

Alaa Farghli Alaa Farghli
af547@cornell.edu
Ph.D. Student (GGD)
Alaa’s interests are in gene regulation and cell-to-cell communication via exosomes.  He is leveraging cutting-edge genome-scale technologies as well as computational deconvolution techniques to define the single-cell regulatory landscape of fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC).
Kieran Koch-Laskowski Kieran Koch-Laskowski
klk246@cornell.edu
DVM/Ph.D. Student (BBS)
Kieran’s thesis work is at the interface of physiology, enteroendocrine biology, gene regulation, and microRNAs.  She leverages cutting-edge techniques in genomics, molecular genetics, and cell biology to define the roles of specific microRNAs in EEC differentiation, function, and response to environmental perturbation.  She is also a student in the College of Veterinary Medicine DVM program.
Don Long Donald Long, B.S.
dl964@cornell.edu
Ph.D. Student (GGD)
Don studies the tumor metabolism in the context of fibrolamellar carcinoma (FLC).  Specifically, he is interested in the role of an orphan transporter in promoting FLC tumor growth, as well as in specific microRNAs and their contribution to the regulation of glycolysis and FLC cell survival.
Rosanna Ma
rkm95@cornell.edu
Ph.D. Student (BBS)
Rosanna studies the molecular drivers of fibrolamellar carcinoma, a devastating yet understudied disease that primarily affects young adults.  The goal of her work is to use functional and unbiased genomic methods to better understand the mechanisms underlying cancer progression, including the interrogation of non-coding RNAs in cancer pathology.
Alexx Shumway Alexandria (Alexx) Shumway
as3999@cornell.edu
Ph.D. Student (GGD)
Alexx’s work focuses on post-transcriptional gene regulatory mechanisms that shape gene expression patterns in pediatric Crohn’s disease.  She is especially interested in microRNAs, but also other small RNAs such as tRNA-derived RNAs, as well as alternative 3′ UTR usage.
Jenna Todero Jenna Todero
jet244@cornell.edu
Ph.D. Student (BMCB)
Jenna’s core interests are in physiology and metabolic disease.  Her thesis work is focused on the identification of the regulatory mechanisms that underpin the association between arsenic exposure and diabetes phenotypes.

Undergraduate Students

Sara Albert Sara Albert
sea72@cornell.edu
Undergraduate Student
Sara is studying the role of miR-29 in lineage allocation in the intestinal epithelium using molecular and cellular techniques.
Ramin Harath
rsh258@cornell.edu
Undergraduate Student
Ramin is studying genetic control of lineage allocation in the intestinal epithelium.

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