GreallyLab personnel

Faculty
Masako Masako Suzuki Ph.D.
Originally from Kunio Shiota's lab at the University of Tokyo, Masako is involved with the lab's genomic imprinting projects, testing candidate genes for imprinting, and is also studying cytosine methylation changes in cancer. She is also studying the epigenomic regulatory patterns in embryonic stem cells. In 2008 she was promoted to a junior faculty position in the Department of Genetics.

Postdoctoral scientists
Priti Priti Tewari M.D.
Priti is a hematology/oncology clinical fellow who is working on the identification of imprinted genes and epigenomic dysregulation in breast cancer.

Niru Nirupama (Niru) Narayanan Ph.D.
Niru is working on our new structural epigenomics area of research, isolating proteins with interesting DNA-binding characteristics.

Rodoniki (Niki) Athanasiadou Ph.D.
Niki is working on

Graduate students
Reid2 Reid Thompson (MSTP program)
Reid is co-mentored with Nir Barzilai, as his research project studies the epigenetic basis of ageing and type 2 diabetes mellitus. He combines molecular studies with bioinformatics, not only performing HELP assays on human samples and rodent models of these phenotypes but also designing the microarrays and developing the techniques required to analyse the HELP data.

MarienMarién Pascual (University of Salamanca, Spain)
Marién is studying the epigenetics of asthma, atopy and allergies, and is also developing techniques to study cytosine methylation in limited cell populations.

Esther Berko (MSTP program)
Esther is working on

Maria-Paz Ramos (PhD program)
Maria-Paz is working on



Research Assistant
Edyta Edyta Stasiek
Edyta is focused on a study to crystallise proteins with epigenetic functions, a collaboration with Steve Almo. These studies form the basis for what we hope to be a broader structural epigenomics program at Einstein.


Collaborating biostatistician
Melissa Fazzari
Melissa's major research interest is the analysis of high-dimensional datasets, using statistical techniques not often employed in biology but of increasing value in this field as our capacity to generate such datasets increases. Her primary focus in terms of her collaboration with this lab is her involvement with our genomic imprinting project.


P.I.
JMG John M. Greally

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Former personnel
Mayumi Mayumi Oda Ph.D.
Mayumi's research was focused on the effects of diet and genotype on the epigenome. She returned to the lab of Kunio Shiota in the University of Tokyo following her postdoc here.

Khulan Khulan Batbayar Ph.D.
Khulan is the developer of the HELP assay. She recently (2008) became the first student to graduate from this lab, and is moving to Cambridge (UK) for her postdoc.

Jacob Jacob Glass (MSTP program)
Jacob’s CG clusters annotations are available through this website. He was the second student to graduate from the lab and has now returned to the MD component of his MD/PhD studies.