Principal Investigator
Praveen Sethupathy, Ph.D.Professor of Physiological Genomics
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Research Associate |
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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. |
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Graduate Students |
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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). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Undergraduate Students |
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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. |
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Ramin Harath rsh258@cornell.edu Undergraduate Student Ramin is studying genetic control of lineage allocation in the intestinal epithelium. |
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