Graduate Research Assistant
keatonsa@msu.edu
Sarah received her Bachelor's degree in 2012 from Michigan State University (Physiology). She is currently a Master's student in the Physiology department, and is working on the NIH-funded "Induced Neural Cell Integration in the Rat Central Nervous System" project.
Research Technician
pinmee@msu.edu
Research Associate
(July 2009 - Present)
Email: bradly.alicea@ieee.org
Bradly joined the laboratory in 2009, and since joining has worked on 1) understanding complex relationships between the translatome and transcriptome, 2) the discrete dynamical modeling of cell populations undergoing reprogramming, and 3) the application of systems biology-oriented measurement/analytical techniques to wide range of cell types, including those with pluripotent and neuronal characteristics.
Bradly's research website is located here:http://www.msu.edu/~aliceabr/research.htm
Bradly is also the Administrator of the Synthetic Daisies blog:http://syntheticdaisies.blogspot.com
Graduate Research Assistant
(May 2008 - present)
Email: luojiesi@msu.edu
Jiesi earned his bachelor's degree in Animal Science from China Agricultural University, Beijing, China in 2007. He is now pursuing his PhD under the guidance of Dr Cibelli and his project includes investigation of pluripotency of animal embryonic stem cells, and mammalian and early embryonic development. His proposed project focuses on generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) from canine somatic cells. The aim of his project is to elucidate the potential requirements for producing iPSCs from dog adult stem cells, in an effort to help form a template for development of regenerative medicine to aid dogs paralyzed by spinal cord injuries. The second area of Jiesi's studies include investigation of the anti-apoptotic effect of sphingosine-1-phosphate on in vitro development of bovine embryos.
Graduate Research Assistant
(August 2008 - present)
Email: goissism@msu.edu
Marcelo graduated from University of Sao Paul, Brazil in 2005 in Veterinary Medicine. In 2008 he completed his Master's Degree in Animal Reproduction at the same university with the thesis "Use of extracellular matrix (MatrigelTM) for establishment of porcine embryonic stem cells and expression characterization of pluripotency related molecules" under the supervision of Dr Jose Antonio Visintin. In August 2008, Marcelo started his PhD studies in Animal Science at Michigan State University, performing research on cellular reprogramming in the bovine model under the supervision of Dr Jose Cibelli. Throughout his training Marcelo gained skills in bovine herd management, transrectal ultrasonography, radioimmunoassay, cell culture, flow cytometry, immunocytochemistry, porcine and bovine in vitro embryo production, bovine somatic cell nuclear transfer, and molecular biology, including gene cloning and quantitative PCR. He is currently working on Wnt signaling pathways in bovine preimplantation embryos and reprogramming of bovine somatic cells.
Email: changeu@msu.edu
Eun-Ah Chang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory (CRL). She graduated from the Medical College of Chung-Ang University at Seoul in Korea, 1992. Dr. Chang completed her residency in Clinical Pathology at Chung-Ang Medical Hospital, and she did her fellowship training in Hemato-Oncology with Bong-Hak Hyun, MD, PhD at Ajou University Hospital in 1999. She received her PhD in 2000 and her PhD thesis was involved in the Clinical significance of p53, MDM2, CyclinD1 protein expression in patients with Multiple Myeloma'. She has a board certified in clinical pathology of Korea. Dr. Chang has worked as a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Korea before she joined the CRL. At the University of Korea, her main research there involved Diagnostic Hemato-oncology, and Immunology.
Her early research at the CRL showed a relationship between neuronal differentiation potential of hESCs and psychoneurologic drug (Prozac) treatment for the first time. More recently, she has been responsible for the generation of human pluripotent stem cells from somatic cells using reprogramming vectors. Her activities include generating and characterizing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from pre-clinical species and humans as well as optimizing in vitro differentiation protocols that deliver terminally differentiated cell types with defined functional characters.
Visiting Research Fellow
(March 2005– 2009)
Research Scholar
(September 2006 – 2009)
Dr Wang is currently a fellow in the Laboratory ofDevelopmental Epigenetics & Reproductive Biology directed by Dr Jason Knott at Michigan State University.
Graduate Research Assistant
(September 2003 - February 2008)
Amy is currently a Clinical Research Associate with Gema Diagnostics, Inc., a start-up molecular diagnostic company targeting assisted reproductive technologies.
Research Assistant Professor
(June 2003 – 2009)
Research Scholar
(Jan 2004 – September 2007)
Research Associate
Research Scholar
(January 2007 – 2009)
Dr Chen is currently in the Laboratory of Dr Richard Leach in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Michigan State University.
Research Scholar
(August 2003 - May 2005)
Visiting Assistant Professor
Dr. Ki-Young Lee was a Visiting Assistant Professor from Kunsan National University, South Korea.
Visiting Scientist
(June 2003 - December 2003)
Vanesa Heyd is presently a researcher in the Developmental Cell Biology Laboratory in FLENI, Argentina.
Research Technician
(May 2006 - May 2008)
Angela is now a Research Technician and runs the fish facility in the Feldman laboratory at the University of Michigan, Department of Neurology.
Administrative Assistant/Office Manager
(January 2003 - January 2008)
Theresa is now at the College of Natural Science Dean's Office in the Office of Research Services.
Research Technologist
(April 2004 – June 2007)
Kerrianne (KC) Cunniff is currently a Research Technician in the laboratory of Dr. George Daley at HHMI/Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School.
Research Assistant Professor
(January 2008 - December 2009)
Graduate Research Assistant
(January 2003 - December 2007)
Pablo is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Animal Science at University of California-Davis.