We're a dedicated, collaborative group
We are always looking for energetic, creative, quantitatively-minded, multidisciplinary thinkers to join the Rosen Lab.
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Meet the Principal Investigator
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Michael K. Rosen, Ph.D.
Dr. Rosen is the Chair of the Department of Biophysics at UT Southwestern Medical Center and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Project Statement: Bridging length and time scales in cell organization
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Postdocs
Sandhya Bhatia, Ph.D.
Jane Coffin Childs Fellow/HHMI Email Sandhya
Project Statement: Decoding the thermodynamics of multi-component biomolecular condensates using high-throughput combinatorial microfluidics-based approaches
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Jonggul Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Jonggul
Project Statement: Elucidating the Physical Mechanisms of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation
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Andrew Lyon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Andrew
Project Statement: High-Throughput Approaches for Investigating Phase Separation and Maturation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
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Sabareesan A. Thody, Ph.D.
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Project Statement: The metabolite composition of biomolecular condensates
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Huabin Zhou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Huabin
Project Statement: Elucidating the structure of biomolecular condensates using cryo-ET
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Runwen Yao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Runwen
Project Statement: Understanding how the function of biomolecular condensates scales with size
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Graduate Students
Lifeng Chen
Graduate Student I Email Lifeng
Project Statement: Genome Organization through Chromatin Phase Separation
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Michael Cotten
Graduate Student I Email Michael
Project Statement: The role of intrinsically disordered linkers in defining the physical properties and spatial organization of biomolecular condensates
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June Ho Hwang
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Project Statement: Investigating the materials properties of biological condensates
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Xuemeng (Molly) Zheng
Graduate Student I Email Xuemeng
Project Statement: Molecular mechanism behind the formation and function of EML4-ALK granules
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Staff
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Lisa Henry
Technician I Email Lisa
Lisa manages all of the insect cell cultures in the lab, from DNA to virus and protein production.
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