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Lucas Pinto, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Principal Investigator

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Julia Cox, PhD

Research Assistant Prof.

Collaborator

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Jiaqi Keith Luo, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

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Neto Canton (Jose Ernesto Canton-Josh), PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

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Renan M Costa, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

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Junhua Tan, BA

PhD student

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Lyn Ackert-Smith, BA

PhD student

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Mathew Rynes, PhD

Post-doctoral fellow

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Erin Myhre, BS, BA

Research technician

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Kristen Castelino

Undergraduate research assistant

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Lina (Anhelina) Morhai

Undergraduate research assistant

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Jessica Howard, BA

PREP student

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Nadir Muzaffar

Undergraduate research assistant

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Fernanda Ruiz

Undergraduate research assistant

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Jashui Zárate Torres

Simons SURFiN Fellow

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Lydia VanDeRiet

Simons SURFiN Fellow

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Lab alumni

Peter Salvino (PhD student, in memoriam)

Amy Rapp (Postdoc, now Director of STEM Career Development and Postdoctoral Affairs, U Chicago Grad) 

Virginia Rodriguez (Tech, now Northwestern PhD student, NUIN)

Janhavi Sahasrabudhe (Tech, now Master’s student, Université Paris Cité)

Shawna Ibarra (Tech, now creative writing)

Camey Calzolano (Tech)