We're a dedicated, collaborative group
We are always looking for energetic, creative, quantitatively-minded, multidisciplinary thinkers to join the Rosen Lab.

Meet the Principal Investigator

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

Simon Currie, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Simon
Project Statement: Biochemical Reconstitution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae P bodies

Jonggul Kim, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Jonggul
Project Statement: Elucidating the Physical Mechanisms of Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation

Martyna Kosno-Vega, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral ResearcherI Email Martyna
Project Statement: A Potential Role for Phase Separation in NUT Carcinoma

Andrew Lyon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Andrew
Project Statement: High-Throughput Approaches for Investigating Phase Separation and Maturation of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins

Sabareesan A. Thody, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Sabareesan
Project Statement: The metabolite composition of biomolecular condensates

Huabin Zhou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Huabin
Project Statement: Elucidating the structure of biomolecular condensates using cryo-ET

Runwen Yao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher I Email Runwen
Project Statement: Understanding how the function of biomolecular condensates scales with size

Graduate Students
Lifeng Chen
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Project Statement: Genome Organization through Chromatin Phase Separation

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

June Ho Hwang
Graduate Student I Email June Ho
Project Statement: Investigating the materials properties of biological condensates

Xuemeng (Molly) Zheng
Graduate Student I Email Xuemeng
Project Statement: Molecular mechanism behind the formation and function of EML4-ALK granules

Staff
Lynda Doolittle
Lab Manager I Email Lynda
As a lab manager Lynda wears many hats. She connects the dots needed to make things work in our lab.

Lisa Henry
Technician I Email Lisa
Lisa manages all of the insect cell cultures in the lab, from DNA to virus and protein production.

